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Farirai Machivenyika Harare Bureau— Cabinet Ministers who bunk Parliament now face contempt of parliament charges after the National Assembly yesterday adopted new Standing Rules and Orders. The new Standing Rules and Orders…
MPs raise concern over consultancy firm
Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau MEMBERS of Parliament have raised concern over the appointment of Brainworks Capital to provide consultancy service to the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board in billion dollar…
‘No to food discrimination’
Lloyd Gumbo and Diana Nherera Harare Bureau Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured parliamentarians that no Zimbabwean would be discriminated against from accessing maize that government is importing from Zambia on the…
Speculators risk losing mining claims
Prosper Ndlovu in Victoria Falls THE government has directed mining companies in the country to provide exploration reports on mineral deposits within their claims and warned those who hold concessions…
Gumboot prints gives away rapist
Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter GUMBOOT prints at a crime scene gave away a man from Mvuma who allegedly sodomised and raped a 69-year-old woman. Francis Kapumhura, 33, appeared before regional magistrate Morgan…
Rapist robber to serve 20 years
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent A GOLD panner has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in jail for robbery and rape. Themba Mpofu, 29, an ex-convict from Habane village in Esigodini, had…
Boy, 16, ‘kills’ rival suitor
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent A 16-YEAR-OLD Gwanda boy allegedly killed a 24-year-old man while fighting over a girlfriend, police confirmed. The juvenile allegedly caused the death of Nkosiyazi Zwelithini Mhlanga of Dzidzane…
LET THEM HAVE SEX, MARRY…Tomana says 12-year-olds CAN consent
Auxillia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter— GIRLS as young as 12 must be listened to by the courts if they wish to start families with older men because they are capable of giving…
The interview: Johannes Tomana
In the wake of revelations that courts are progressively lowering the age of consent in Zimbabwe to 12 years from 16 by refusing to send child sex predators top jail,…
African ICC must try Europeans: Mugabe
Felex Share Harare Bureau— THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is a court for Western countries dispensing Western injustice on Africans, President Robert Mugabe said yesterday as he trumpeted moves to start…