Politics
Eddie Cross’ sentencing Postponed
SENTENCE on Eddie Cross, convicted under the Insolvency Act for failing to attend meetings with his creditors, was yesterday postponed yet again to 4 June. Harare magistrate Garikayi Churu postponed the case for a possible record eleventh time because the magistrate who presided over the matter, Stanley Ncube, was not present. ... »
Nyarota, Mudiwa charges unconstitutional
Despite the admission, the Attorney-General’s Office, responsible for drafting Bills, yesterday instructed that Nyarota and Mudiwa be further remanded to 27 February 2003 The government has conceded that Section 80 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) under which Geoffrey Nyarota, the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily News, and Lloyd... »
Editor Nyarota arrested as crackdown on media continues
Nyarota, who is being charged under a section of the controversial Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, denied the charge in a statement recorded by the police. In their continuing crackdown on independent media journalists, the police in Harare yesterday arrested Geoff Nyarota, the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily News, in connection with... »
Mnangagwa refuses to talk on Chikanga’s case
The Attorney-General’s Office yesterday questioned the relevance of contacting Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Speaker of Parliament, as ordered by a High Court judge to check whether he was willing to give evidence on the release of a hard-core armed robber serving a 35-year prison term. Justice George Bartlett last week ordered the Attorney-General (AG), Andrew Chigovera, to contact Mnangagwa to... »
Zvobgo, Mavhaire snub the President
Zanu PF’s deep-rooted factionalism in Masvingo surfaced again last Sunday when party stalwarts Eddison Zvobgo and Dzikamai Mavhaire, snubbed President Mugabe’s presidential campaign rally held at Mucheke Stadium. The rally coincided with Vice-President Simon Muzenda’s 79th birthday party celebrations held at the same venue. Mavhaire yesterday said he and Zvobgo did not attend the Mucheke birthday party-cum-Zanu PF presidential campaign... »
Armed soldiers unleash terror
Armed soldiers and policemen are alleged to have severely beaten up people in Harare’s Warren Park, Kuwadzana and Dzivaresekwa suburbs yesterday, accusing them of taking part in the two-day stayaway which ended on Wednesday. At around 3am yesterday, the soldiers and policemen entered homes and bars in Dzivaresekwa and attacked occupants for allegedly barricading... »
Villages deserted as people flee violence
Makundwei Motsi Muzavazi, 26, of Imbwanhema village in Musana communal lands, is recuperating in a Harare hospital after being assaulted by a group of Zanu PF youths from Bindura last week. Several families from the area have since fled their villages. Muzavazi’s attackers accused him of being a member of the MDC. Musana falls... »
Company documents go missing at Registrar’s office
Company documents of Soundrider Communications (Pvt) Ltd, which operated an unlicensed and unnamed filling station from September to the end of November at the Cold Comfort Farm Trust premises in Harare, have gone missing at the Registrar of Companies’ offices. Didymus Mutasa, the Zanu PF secretary for external relations, is the chairman of the... »
Mugabe to hold on to power
ZANU PF will form Zimbabwe’s next government, whether the party wins the weekend’s parliamentary election or not, the party’s national chairman, John Nkomo said yesterday. Nkomo told a Press conference that according to Zimbabwe’s amended Lancaster House Constitution, President Mugabe had the right to appoint his Cabinet from any people elected into the 150-member legislature. The... »
MDC polling agent abducted in Bulawayo
PATRICK Nyabanyama, one of the polling agents for David Coltart, the parliamentary candidate for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) who was contesting the Bulawayo South seat, was allegedly abducted last Monday by war veterans and Zanu PF supporters from his house at 791 Nketa 6. Police at Nkulumane confirmed having received the report and... »