Directors of foreign owned companies have received warning threats of being sued if they fail  to comply with the indiginisation law.Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao has said directors of foreign owned companies must be taken to court if they cause the collapse of their companies through non-compliance. The minister said directors have a manda

A man who killed his wife, a lecturer at Midlands State University over infidelity accusations last month, allegedly hired hit-men to kill the woman's suspected boyfriend, who is also a lecturer at the same institute. Fred Shavi, 68, of Southdowns Suburb in Gweru is alleged to have on approached Mtokozisi Dube and Gift Lunga at Insukamini, Lower Gweru and hired them to kill Prosper Maburo for him

Zwimba district registrar has been slammed with a 10 month jail sentence after being found guilty of processing 14 fake birth certificates. Michael Chikomba processed 14 birth certificates on different occasions from June to July 2014, and they were all found in possession of one Shepherd Machiridza.Investigations by the police showed that the certificates were processed after hours between 5pm an

Junior doctors have yet again rejected an amended government contract issued by the Health Service Board (HSB) sighting that the conditions are not free and fairThe deadlock between the HSB and first year doctors has negatively impacted on referral hospitals which are the hardest hit as they are grappling with an acute shortage of medical practitioners. The junior doctors from Mpilo and Parir

A police officer from Jotsholo Police station has been arrested for attempting to rape a pregnant teenager who is in police custody.Augustine Gumbo, 27, who has a pending court case for abuse of office and forgery, was allegedly caught naked after he broke into the witness quarter at the station on Saturday at around 11PM and tried to force himself on the 16 year old.The teenager is a State w

Zanu Pf is set to convene a Politburo meeting tomorrow to come up with a solution to its infighting amid numerous disciplinary cases affecting some of the parties Provincial structures. The party's secretary for administration Ignatius Chombo also confirmed that a Central Committee meeting has also been scheduled for Friday. The meeting is coming at a time Zanu-PF is facing a number of pendin

Gweru City Council council minutes have revealed that council clinics have recorded very low patient visits, prompting fears services had plummeted to unprecedented levels or residents could no longer afford clinic fees.Minutes of the council's health and housing committee meeting indicate that city fathers were worried over the trend and had tasked management to investigate the matter.Part of t

Villagers from the diamond rich Marange areas are calling for the arrest of top government and diamond firms' officials, who deceived President Robert Mugabe and made him present a dummy cheque of $1,5 million as contribution to Zimunya Marange Community Share Ownership Trust, where only$400 000 was later deposited and at least $1,1m is still missing.Speaking at a public hearing conducted by the

President Robert Mugabe has been lashed with threats of being taken to court over the missing 15 billion diamond revenue from Mabvuku-Tafara MP James Maridadi (MDC-T).Addressing a constituency feedback meeting last Friday in Mabvuku, Maridadi said Mugabe owed the nation a convincing explanation on how the government failed to account for the money.Maridadi urged the country to rally behind him in

Zapu has announced that it has rescheduled its party's 10th congress to the end of August, after the event which was meant for December last year was cancelled due to financial constrains.The new date was agreed at Zapu’s national people’s council quarterly meeting held in Bulawayo on Saturday.Dumiso Dabengwa the Zapu leader said the party had trust on those given the mandate to organize the

A woman from Victoria Falls is suing her husband's alleged mistress for $5,000 claiming that she has endured a spell of sexual starvation for seven years.Bekezela Ndlovu, 35, a secretary at Oasis College, is claiming the money from Faith Mawodzeka who works at the Victoria Falls Border Post.Bekezela said her husband Jordan Ndlovu, 40, has not had sex with her since 2009 because he has been sleepin

A poisonous shrub, lantana camara, is threatening to destroy the remaining national cattle herd in Matebeland South Province as it has already ravaged over 770 hectares of pasture land.588 240 cattle are at the risk of dying in the province due to the combination of drought and the effects of the aggressive shrub.Lantana camara is a toxic much-branched, upright, arching or scrambling shrub that u

Two gold panners who hijacked and killed a businessman from Filabusi in Matebeland South, before taking his car , have been jailed for life. Precious Nkomo of Godlwayo village in Filabusi and Edgar Majasi of Khohli village in Gokwe were sentenced for the murder of Alphious Mabhena, 42, whom they lured into a bush where they killed him in August 2011.They beat him to death with iron bars and t

Police in Bulawayo have apprehended four people believed to be part of a drug syndicate that is selling drugs to pupils at city schools. Obert Gondo, 52, who owns a grocery shop in the city centre, was arrested together with his brother Themba Gondo, 40, and their employee Angelina Tenga while Alex Zario, 22, from Njube was arrested at his home where he was also allegedly selling dangerous drugs.Z

Police in Bulawayo have issued a warrant of arrest for a female fraudster who has duped two women of more than $17 000 in the pretext of having a business deal. Abergailey Mpala of Hillside suburb allegedly scammed her victims by inviting them to partner with her on a tender she claimed to have won to supply a school with computers.Mpala allegedly coned the first woman of $12 000, which she c