adminMDC-T official pleads conflict of interest in firearm case
Tendai Rupapa Senior court reporterThe director of research in the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s office, Thabani Mpofu, accused of flouting the country’s firearms law, wants his case referred to the Supreme Court. Through his lawyers, Mr Alec Muchadehama and Chris Mhike, Mpofu is raising
Kadoma robbery,rape cases on the increase
Chinhoyi BureauPolice in Kadoma have been urged to come up with strategies to fight the increase in rape and robbery cases recorded in the district during the first quarter of the year. Rape cases among adults increased to 20 cases between January and March this
Man arrested for running over toddler
Beitbridge BureauPolice have arrested a 50-year-old man from Makwe area in Gwanda district for fatally knocking down a two-year-old boy while reversing his car from a grinding mill last Saturday afternoon. Acting Matabeleland South police spokesperson Sergeant Nkosilathi Sibanda
Driver fined, banned from driving
Court ReporterA Chitungwiza man was fined US$800 yesterday and banned from driving all classes of vehicles for the next four months after being involved in an accident that killed two people on the spot. Ephraim Pasvani (44) of 17846 in Zengeza 5 Extension
Boston bomb details emerge
BOSTON. — The explosives used to kill three people and injure 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were most likely some kind of “pressure-cooker” devices that sent sharp bits of shrapnel flying into victims in the vicinity of the blast, several law enforcement officials said yesterday.Seven die in Venezuela
Violence over Venezuela’s disputed presidential election has killed seven people, according to State news agency AVN.It reported on Tuesday that two people died in Miranda state, which includes part of Caracas; one in Tachira state on the border with Colombia; and another in western Zulia state.
Rusape’s butcher camp relived
Fortious Nhambura recently in RUSAPE
Tears start collecting in his eyes as he narrates the ordeal that the captured guerrilla, war collaborators men and women underwent at Castle Kopje Camp, popularly known as ‘KuButcher’ in Rusape. Although he has done this so many times, Cde Chimedza still
Pasuwa survives axe, but . . .
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
Dynamos coach Callisto Pasuwa’s job is safe for now, but nothing can be guaranteed if he doesn’t turn his team’s woeful form around in two big games against Highlanders tomorrow and on Sunday.
Zim cricket team confident of victory
Paul Munyuki Sports ReporterZIMBABWE is hopeful they will bounce back from their series whitewash to West Indies when they take on Bangladesh in an historic day series for the hosts who will, for the first time, have a black coach taking charge of the team.
Thatcher’s hand in Equatorial Guinea
Daniel BoffeyMargareth Thatcher approved of a failed attempt to use an army of mercenaries to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea, according to the unpublished memoirs of the chief protagonist of the bid, former