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MUGABE MOTORCADE LAW; ‘One shall not make a statement or gesture within the view or hearing of the state motorcade with the intention of insulting any person travelling with an escort or any member of the escort’ Zimbabwe’s opposition is pushing for the repeal of a State law that makes it a crime to gesture rudely or swear at President Robert Mugabe’s high-speed, heavily-armed motorcade. The Road Traffic (Rules of the Road) (Amendment) Regulations, issued…

A KOMBI driver was banned for life from driving and sentenced to a year in jail after he was convicted of picking passengers at an undesignated spot in Bulawayo.   Bulawayo magistrate Mr Tinashe Tashaya convicted Frank Ndebele, a repeat offender, for failing to display front and rear number plates and picking passengers at an undesignated area.   A first time offender, Mduduzi Ndlovu, got away with a $30 fine before the same court.  …

Metallon Gold Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd, owners of How Mine near Bulawayo and other gold mines in the country, has been taken to court on allegations of externalising more than $30 million.   The Harare Magistrates’ Court yesterday heard how the company would transfer the money outside the country without authority from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on the pretext it was repaying a loan.   At times it would claim it was paying for services…

Businessman and socialite Wicknell Chivhayo – more popularly known as Sir Wicknell – paid lobola (bride price) for his beau Sonja Madzikanda this weekend. In a social media post Thursday, Chivayo boasted that he would be disappointed if his in-laws charged him less that $50,000 for lobola. source-byo24

Zimbabwe’s tax agency has said it wants to uncover billions of dollars in undeclared assets kept by Zimbabwean citizens in foreign countries amid a worsening liquidity crunch. This comes as Zimbabweans have externalised billions of dollars, ranging from the relatively small bank deposits in neighbouring countries, to millions stashed in tax havens globally. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has reported that banks are holding on to only 2 percent of cash reserves against a…

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s return home from a week-long trip abroad took a bizarre turn yesterday morning when one of the bikers in his motorcade was involved in a horrific accident, a few minutes after his wife was injured as their car took off from the Harare International Airport while her foot was still on the ground.   ZBC reported that Grace was involved in a “freak” accident at the airport soon after arriving with her…

Philanthropist , co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates the wife of billionaire Bill Gates, a woman who is a practising catholic is now shrouded in controversy with her advocacy for poor women in the third world. Melinda Gates is advocating an ambitious family planning program in which billions of dollars will be raised to provide contraceptives to a total of 120 million women worldwide. Contraception for Catholics church is mired in…