A POLICE officer stationed at Beitbridge District Headquarters’ Finance Department has been arrested for allegedly stealing about $33,900 and R617,130.Admire Sibanda (33), a constable, allegedly worked in cahoots with one Walter Komboni (26) and Givemore Ndombonya who is still at large.Sibanda was arrested in a dawn raid on Friday last week following a tip off.The cop, a court heard yesterday, s

A 46-YEAR-OLD Bulilima man, who reportedly killed his nephew (17) over a scotchcart and fled to Botswana, has been arrested.Zamani Moyo who stays in Tshukuluthu Village, Maitengwe area was intercepted by the police at Maitengwe Border Post after he was deported from the neighbouring country on Monday.He had been on the run for about 72 hours.Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Inspe

There was pandemonium at a building housing the People’s Own Savings Bank (POSB) and other businesses in Masvingo Central Business District after one of the offices caught fire.This prompted temporary evacuation of the building for about one hour just before midday yesterday, bringing business at the premises to a halt.The fire, suspected to have been sparked by an electrical fault, started in t

 More than 200 000 war collaborators are expected to be vetted soon once the necessary legal instruments that seek to align the Constitution have been enacted, Parliament heard last week.Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, former political detainees and Restrictees Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube, said that would culminate in the determination of what they should ge

A State witness in the case in which jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura is accused of masterminding a foiled jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison last year, on Friday last week refused to testify arguing that his rights were being infringed.For that reason, Davison Mutakaya wants the case referred to the Constitutional Court so that the rights issues can be

SIX Tanzanians yesterday appeared in court for breaking into two houses while armed with a pistol, before stealing cash and goods amounting to $11 720.Bakari Kila Bakari (32), Jonathan Oscar Mgwabati (25), Salum Bakiri Kitumbi (28) Muhammed Kila Bakiri (31), Francis Jailoso Mwakangala (40) and Omali Ali Juma (32) were facing armed robbery and unlawful entry charges when they appeared before Harare

A 15 year old girl was raped by an unknown assailant at a secluded place in Waterfalls while she was on her way to school last Friday morning.Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the incident and said investigations were still in progress.“A 15-year-old girl who was waiting for transport to school at a bus stop was called to a secluded place by an un

Some youths belonging to a coalition of opposition parties, the National Election Reform Agenda (NERA), say they have gone into hiding ahead of a protest march by the group penciled for Tuesday in Harare.The youths said they have been harassed and intimidated by unknown people, suspected to be state security agents since the beginning of last week.One of the youths was allegedly abducted on Friday

Civil servants’ unions and organisations under the Apex Council on Monday snubbed an urgent meeting called by the Ministry of Labour to discuss pay dates for government workers following a proposal to shift pay days for the month of June.Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) general secretary Raymond Majongwe said they did not attend the meeting because the government chose to invite

A GROUP of Zimbabwean business people have penned down agreements with Japanese car manufacturers in a deal that would see locals drive their dream cars through hire purchase.A first batch of about 500 vehicles, to be delivered through businesswoman Smelly Dube’s River Valley Properties will arrive in the country in the next six weeks.Industry and Commerce deputy minister Chiratidzo Mabuwa said

Harare City Council has lost over $2 million in a racket involving municipal officials, transport operators and some unlicensed businesses.The committee heard that 14% of commuter omnibuses were operating with fake rank discs, while 8% are operating without valid rank discsChairperson of council’s audit committee, Enock Mupamawonde on Monday told a full council meeting that multiple leakages and

THE government has declined to issue diplomatic passports to Members of Parliament, saying the legislators did not have a right to own them.Legislators, represented by Buhera South MP, Joseph Chinotimba (Zanu PF), complained over President Robert Mugabe and Foreign Affairs minister, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi’s refusal to issue them with diplomatic passports.National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda s

STATE university workers yesterday stormed Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s offices demanding their outstanding salaries and bonuses, as government struggles to pay its workers.An 18-member group, representing all State universities, besieged Chinamasa’s offices at New Government Complex in Harare demanding payment of their 2015 bonuses and outstanding salaries for the past year.The 9 000-

VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday stunned opposition legislators when he told Parliament that President Robert Mugabe never threatened to crush war veterans for meddling in the Zanu PF succession fights.Mnangagwa was responding to MDC-T Proportional Representation MP, Nomathemba Ndlovu, who had asked him to explain if it was government policy that whenever Mugabe and the ruling party are

A KOMBI driver allegedly killed a Zanu PF youth league member after ferrying him from Harare International Airport, where he had gone with others to welcome President Robert Mugabe.Costa Gono, who is out on bail, appeared before Harare magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni yesterday facing culpable homicide charges.Gono denied the allegations, while arguing that the deceased, Tapiwa Chibvunze of Waterfalls,