Zimbabwe Situation

Source: News in depth: How Harare lost vast tracts of prime land for incomplete Airport Road – The Standard THE controversial Harare Airport Road construction project has exposed how businessman Ken Sharpe’s Augur Investments allegedly moved to transfer and hide vast tracts of land under several shelf companies to avoid litigation. The matter came to […] …
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Source: Rejected Chinamasa fumes – The Standard FORMER Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, fearing being relegated to an ordinary party member, has pleaded for the allocation of more central committee seats to Manicaland after he was rejected by his Makoni district. Chinamasa was rejected by his own district at a recent Makoni inter-district meeting, with party […] …
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Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau FOUR family members including the father, his wife and two children, died on the spot in a road accident at the 7, 5 kilometre peg along the Norton-Chibero Road yesterday morning. Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyati confirmed the accident. The driver of the vehicle (make was not given), lost […] …
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The new Parliament built with support from China will be commissioned soon Guo Shaochun, Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Yesterday was the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In the past 73 years, the Chinese people pulled together and worked hard under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). […] …
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Court Reporter A 33-year-old man appeared in court yesterday on allegations of duping a businessman of US$500 000 when he marketed Zambian cement the two had bought using the businessman’s money, but he never passed on the proceeds of sales. Clayton Simbarashe Musasiwa was not asked to plead to charges of theft of trust property […] …
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Tendai Biti Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter Lawyers representing the woman allegedly criminally insulted by CCC Vice President Tendai Biti have written to CCC leader Nelson Chamisa asking him to reverse a party decision to call for demonstrations during Biti’s trial or publicly disassociate the party from the calls if it had nothing to do […] …
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Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The group of 14 CCC members, facing charges of assault, arson and looting after the violence that rocked Nyatsime area after Moreblessing Ali was kidnapped and murdered by a former boyfriend, have had their High Court bid for bail pending trial rejected because it was brought to the wrong court. […] …
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Zimbabweans living in South Africa may need to leave under new rules that also could spur economic blowback. Source: Policy Threatens to Upend Lives of Immigrants in South Africa Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. HARARE, ZIMBABWE — If not for the economic hardships she faced […] …
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Source: If ZANU PF more repressive than Smith, so why are we behaving as if dealing with civilized democratic regime? The prolonged incarceration of opposition CCC deputy chairperson, and MP (member of parliament) for Zengeza West, Job Sikhala – who has been holed up in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison since his arrest, together with 15 […] …
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Tsitsi Dangarembga and her husband arrive at the Harare magistrate courts yesterday. — Picture Lee Maidza Senior Court Reporter The trial of novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga finally ended yesterday with a $70 000 fine (or three months) after being convicted on charges of staging an illegal demonstration during the Covid-19 national lockdown in […] …
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