A BULAWAYO medical doctor will no longer pay $1,600 per month as maintenance that was granted in default after he told a magistrate that the payments would leave him bankrupt.Dr Yahaya Malango’s wife Lynnette had been granted $1,600 per month for the upkeep of the couple’s two children in default.Dr Malango’s lawyer, Thabani Matshakaile from Lazarus & Sarif told magistrate Batanai Tuwe t

GWERU Provincial Magistrate, Phathekile Msipa, yesterday blasted the State for failing to put its papers in order in the fraud case involving Gweru Mayor Hamutendi Kombayi and town clerk Daniel Matawu.She then ordered prosecutors to proceed by way of summons .The mayor and town clerk who were facing criminal abuse of office, theft and fraud charges were arrested in December last year.Msipa had set

A WOMAN from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo who allegedly claimed a wallet containing 2,800 rands and $50 that was left by a customer at a Chicken Inn counter has been arrested after she was exposed by CCTV.Brenda Chipo Jojo appeared before magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure facing a theft charge.She pleaded guilty and was remanded in custody to today.Allegations are that on April 29, Christian Mudawu

A soldier based in Plumtree shot himself dead using an AK47 while on duty at a point along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border on Tuesday morning. Progress Ntando Hlatshwayo, 31, who was stationed at 1.3 Reserve Infantry Battalion in Plumtree, was found by his workmates in a pool of blood, already dead.Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Nkosilathi Sibanda said:“The c

The High Court has granted the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) control and administrator powers over Cheda and Partners’ outstanding fees and liabilities pending the proper winding up of the law firm. The ruling by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Francis Bere follows an urgent chamber application lodged by the LSZ citing Cheda and Partners and its former senior partners, Sindiso Mazibisa, Mlamul

The Insurance and Pension Commission has clamped down on insurance companies that are using unregistered insurance agents across the country. While responding to a request by The Herald Business on why some insurance companies continue to use unregistered agents, IPEC head, prudential supervision Pupurai Togarepi said all companies using unregistered agents are being dealt with according to the la

BROTHER to Zanu-pf Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke yesterday exonerated the politician from allegations of raping a 13 year old relative in 2010 and indecently assaulting her sister, claiming that he was with the legislator on the day he is said to have committed the offences.Claitos Kereke told the court that he spent the entire night with Kereke at one of his houses in Mandara.According to the

Members of Parliament will soon be regulated by a code of conduct and ethics currently being drafted by the legislature to uphold good corporate governance tenets.This was among a raft of recommendations first made in 1999 by a parliamentary reform committee, some of which have been adopted and are being implemented.The preamble of the draft code of conduct and ethics gleaned by a local publicatio

Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo is fighting to have his 2005 conviction on money laundering quashed by the Supreme Court despite having fully served the three-year prison term imposed on him.Chivayo was in 2005 jailed five years for money laundering, which involved R837 000 by the High Court.Two years were conditionally set aside, leaving him to serve an effective three years in prison.

Jailed Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura says he has no qualms if any of his wives walks out on him as they have been loyal for more than two years and are only human.Speaking from his jail cell at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison ,Gumbura, who has 12 wives, bragged that he was the one who got the most visits at Chikurubi.“Even today if I hear they have left, I would not

FOUR men from Bulawayo have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Air Zimbabwe public relations executive, Shingai Dhliwayo, who was killed in Botswana last month.The four – who have criminal records in Zimbabwe and Botswana – were picked up at various locations around the city by detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Homicide section between Monday and T

A MAN from Fort Rixon appeared in court yesterday for allegedly axing to death a man he found in bed with his girlfriend.Ntando Ngulube, 33, flew into a rage after finding Max Moyo in bed with Nomsa Mhlanga on Saturday night.Ngulube went to Moyo’s place of residence at night and found Mhlanga in bed with Moyo.Ngulube reached for an axe and struck Moyo in the head three times. Mhlanga fled the sc

PARENTS whose children attend Mukaro High School in Gutu have blasted the Roman Catholic Diocese of Masvingo for closing the institution on Tuesday.The Diocese closed the school saying the situation was tense at the school because of two “stubborn” teachers who were once suspended after being accused of masterminding a protest by pupils in 2012.Parents and guardians who spoke to a local p

President Mugabe has pardoned more than 2 000 inmates across the country in a move set to decongest national prisons and promote better living conditions.This comes as President Mugabe extended the amnesty on May 23 in terms of Section 112 (1) (a) and (d) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.The amnesty has freed all convicted female prisoners except those on death row or serving life sentences, leavin

The Harare Girls High pupil who died after being hit by a commuter omnibus was laid to rest yesterday at Granville Cemetery in Harare. Jocelyn Gomba (17) and 35-year-old Odwell Mabanga were run over and dragged to death by one of the commuter omnibuses on Monday that have established a rank near the entrance of Harare Girls High School.Mabanga sustained serious spinal injuries, but died on Tu