Man claims child dead to evade maintenance

Court Reporter
A Harare man last week told a Harare civil court magistrate that his former wife was claiming an upward variation of maintenance fees for a dead child, but the magistrate was sure the child was alive and ordered him to pay up. Cladwin Chasukwa

UFI pastor nabbed for illegally dealing in gold

Senior Court Reporter
A United Family International Church pastor who was nabbed for possessing nine grams of gold last week appeared in court for dealing in gold without a licence.
James Mwarira (25) was arrested at a jewellery

‘No legal basis for poll date extension’

Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT has no legal basis to approach the Constitutional Court seeking an extension to the July 31 poll date order that it has already complied with, legal experts have said. They said the appeal to President Mugabe,

Chaos as MDC-T members revolt

Bulawayo Bureau
PLACARD-waving and slogan-chanting MDC-T members yesterday revolted against the party’s decision to have a re-run of primary elections in Emakhandeni constituency. Ward 10 councillor Prince Dube won the right to represent

Dr Nkomo memorial preparations on

Bulawayo Bureau
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province will next month host a special week to commemorate the life of the late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Bulawayo provincial chairman Professor Callistus Ndlovu announced at a press conference last

Plumtree-Mutare highway on target

Herald Reporter
REHABILITATION and widening of the Plumtree-Mutare highway, one of the two critical highways bisecting Zimbabwe, should be complete by April next year, the Zimbabwe National Road Administration has said. The authority’s chief

Mutizira-Nondo publishes another book

Herald Reporter
BOTSWANA-BASED medical practitioner Dr Nyaradzo Mutizira-Nondo last week published his second political book in Harare called “The Regime Change Agenda: Focus on Zimbabwe”. Dr Mutizira-Nondo is also the author

Ruling in Unki Mine case postponed

Beitbridge Bureau
JUDGMENT in a case in which Unki Mine is accused of smuggling a minibus fitted with new spare parts worth R236 375 into the country through Beitbridge border post has been postponed to July 5. Jimson Ruzvidzo (driver) and James

Parliament advises on chrome ban lift

Senior Reporter
GOVERNMENT should lift the ban on chrome ore exports and impose a tax on the mineral as part of measures to encourage value addition, the House of Assembly was told last week. A parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and

Programme to empower youths

Herald Reporter
The Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) on Friday launched a child-friendly budgeting programme aimed at empowering young people with skills to participate in the national budgetary process. Under the programme, a total of 320 junior

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