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January 28, 2016

Chiyangwa, Twine Phiri unite in grief

By Austin Karonga HARARE – Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa and deposed Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairman Twine Phiri were on Monday united in grief as both visited the late Eric Rosen’s Glen Lorne residence in the capital to pay their condolences. The late Motor Action Football Club director Rosen succumbed to a heart attack on […]

Zimra to realise $40m from tax amnesty

By Ndakaziva Majaka HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner-General Gershem Pasi says the taxman assessed about $40 million tax claims during its tax amnesty last year. Speaking on the side-lines of the International Customs Day commemorations in the capital on Tuesday, Pasi said the authority was now going after the clients who had […]

Reactions to hoax story on Eritrea

By Bongani Ndlovu Zimbabweans have received the “news” of a hoax story alleging mandatory polygamy by men in Eritrea with excitement with many men taking to social media to express their eagerness to travel to that country. This is after an alleged copy of a scanned decision of the Grand Mufti (Eritrean Parliament) surfaced on […]

Man missing for 1 year was ‘killed by son’

By Sukulwenkosi Dube PLUMTREE – The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a 75-year-old man from Bulilima, who was reported missing in 2014, has been solved after his son was arrested for allegedly killing him and dumping the body in a disused well. Sipoko Johnson Moyo’s decomposed body was discovered one year, four months after his […]

‘Amai Jukwa’ duped by Chiyangwa

HARARE – The former Editor of The Sunday Mail Edmund Kudzayi was allegedly duped of a motor vehicle worth $3,000 by the late James “Jimmy Jimalo’’ Chiyangwa’s son in a botched car deal. Mike Harris Chiyangwa, 28, of number 4282 Old Highfield suburb, appeared before Mbare magistrate Reward Kwenda charged with fraud. He denied the allegations […]

Biti challenges Zim life sentence laws

By Christopher Mahove HARARE – Prominent Harare lawyer, Tendai Biti, on Wednesday attacked a section of the Zimbabwean Constitution which gives the president the sole power to pardon prisoners, saying it was meaningless. Biti was addressing journalists in Harare soon after Constitutional Court Judge, Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, sitting with the full bench, reserved judgment in […]