High Court Judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has sentenced Tapiwa Makore’s killers to death following their conviction for the crime of murder after a full trial. Tapiwa Makore Senior (60), connived to murder his seven-year-old nephew with his herd boy Tafadzwa Shamba (40) on the night of September 17, 2020 in …

Exiled former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been barred from contesting the country’s presidential elections by the High Court. This follows an application filed against the former Zanu PF political commissar by a ruling party activist. The High Court concurred that he stopped being a registered voter when he was …

Zanu PF aspiring MP for Bikita South Energy Mutodi stormed the venue of a Citizens Coalition for Change rally and discharged his gun, according to a police complaint filed by his rival John Mupanduki. The incident happened at Baradzanwa BIC in Bikita on July 6, according to the police report …

The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) Principal Director Public Health, Dr Munyaradzi Dobbie says Zimbabwe is still saddled with the burden of three Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs, namely Schistosomiasis (SCH) & Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) and lymphatic filariasis. This was revealed during a Results dissemination Workshop for the …

The family of a 15-year-old rape victim is threatening legal action after her rapist, 59, was released on amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Bobby Makaza was sentenced to an effective 16 years in prison by a Murewa court in 2019 over the sex attack on the teenager a year previously. …

Tempers flared yesterday during the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Harare Metropolitan provincial multi-party liaison committee meeting after opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party candidates accused the electoral body of secretly availing the voters roll to Zanu PF candidates. Zec almost lost control of the meeting as CCC and Zanu …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa enjoys an eight percentage points lead on opposition rival Nelson Chamisa going into general elections on August 23, but none of the men has a sufficient vote to win the election outright, according to a new poll released on Monday. The Afrobarometer poll shows Mnangagwa ahead with …

President Mnangagwa is expected to leave the country this afternoon to join fellow African Heads of State at the high-level 15th US-Africa Business Summit that kicks off at the Royal Aria Convention Centre here today. More than 1 000 participants will take part at the continent’s largest annual gathering of …

Two Chinese nationals were robbed of US$100,000 cash and a handgun after six men stormed their residence in Harare’s Greendale suburb last Friday, police said. Wang Zhou and Feng Zhou, the victims of the attack, reportedly have interests in mining. Police have been told that the huge amount of cash …

Negotiations for a salary hike between government and civil servants have continued to drag as they are yet to reach a “conclusive” agreement. Government and the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), formerly Apex Council, met in the capital last Friday, where they failed to reach to an …