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Five Ambulances Race 37 Manondwane Pupils To Hospital After Ingesting Toxic Jatropha Fruit

Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THIRTY-SEVEN Grade 2 pupils were yesterday rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital after some of them started vomiting, apparently from food poisoning after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. Sources at Manondwane Primary School in Bulawayo’s Nketa 7 said 16 pupils ingested the toxic fruits at the school playground at around 10AM and the rest of the class was taken for treatment as a precaution. “They were playing in their enclosed place where there are swings and slides. The…

Tomana Bid To Have Retired Or Foreign-based Judge Preside In His Dispute with JSC Thrown Out

Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

PROSECUTOR-General Johannes Tomana yesterday lost his bid to have his dispute with the Judicial Service Commission presided over by a retired or a foreign-based judge. The High Court dismissed his application for referral of the matter to the Constitutional Court. In the dismissed application, Tomana had raised constitutional issues, chief among them being that serving judges of the High Court would not handle his case fairly.Tomana is seeking to block the JSC from continuing with proceedings that…

Panama Papers Reveal 280 Zimbabweans ‘Who Siphoned Billions Out Of The Country’

Posted on May 11, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has named over 280 Zimbabweans, including prominent businesspeople, who reportedly syphoned billions of dollars out of the country. The businesspeople, mostly of Caucasian extraction, have links to offshore investment vehicles. The list is contained in data from over 200 countries that was leaked to the Panama Papers and contains information about offshore companies and the people behind them. The Panama Papers are 11,5 million leaked documents that detail financial…

‘All School Teachers To Wear A ‘National Uniform With Effect From July 2016’-Dokora

Posted on May 11, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Dokora pulls shocker of the year Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora on Monday morning pulled yet another shocker after he called a press conference to announce a move that is likely to be met with the highest degree of resistance by school teachers. Before dust around the issue of the recently introduced national pledge has even settled, the Government has announced that with effect from July 2016 all Primary and Secondary school teachers…

Zesa Seeks Cabinet Approval For 14% Hike Of Electricity Tarrifs

Posted on May 11, 2016May 11, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

ELECTRICITY charges will increase by about 14 percent if Cabinet rubberstamps the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority-approved application for a tariff hike which was made by Zesa Holdings. According to impeccable sources, an inter-Ministerial Committee is currently studying Zera’s determination to have electricity charges raised from 9,83 cents per kilowatt per hour to 11,2c. Zesa Holdings, through the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), had applied for a tariff increase of 14,6c/kWh to help finance…

‘NSSA Acting General Manager Arrested For Externalising US$330 Million’

Posted on May 10, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The Acting General Manager of the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) Hashmon Matemera has been nabbed for externalising close to US$330 million. Matemera has appeared before Harare Provincial Magistrate Mr Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe. Matemera, who is a former Bank ABC managing director, has been granted US$10 000 bail and has been asked to provide a surety of US$250 000 coupled with stringent reporting conditions. Charges against Matemera dates back to 2011 when he was still…

Abducted Itai Dzamara’s, Defiant Brother Arrested At Harare’s Africa Unity Square

Posted on May 10, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Police yesterday arrested missing activist Itai Dzamara’s brother Patson before they blocked the family and friends from holding a prayer meeting in Harare’s Africa Unity Square. Dozens of police officers in anti-riot gear besieged the Africa Unity Square, the scene of Itai’s demonstrations and took with them Patson — who is proving to be a thorn in the flesh for the law enforcement agents. Patson, who was briefly detained at a police sub-station along First…

Hundreds Of Buildings Face Demolition For Mtshabezi Bridge, Linking, Gwanda, Vumbachikwe & Blanket mines.

Posted on May 10, 2016May 10, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Hundreds of residential and business buildings face demolition in Gwanda to pave way for construction of a bridge – Mtshabezi Bridge. The bridge links Gwanda town with Vumbachikwe and Blanket mines. The current bridge is extremely narrow. Council is accused of dishing out stands too close to the bridge, a Gwanda paper Ilanga reported. Gwanda mayor Knowledge Ndlovu conceded that the local authority made a grave error in allocating the stands. “We take it with…

Elizabeth Macheka Summons Tsvangirai’s ‘Girlfriends’ To Gweru City Meeting

Posted on May 10, 2016May 10, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai president Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Elizabeth Macheka recently descended on Gweru, the theatre of her husband’s alleged debauchery, and summoned her husband’s alleged lovers for a meeting. The meeting, disguised as a gathering of MDC-T women’s assembly executives in the Midlands province brought the party leader’s wife in contact with the women widely accused of snatching her husband. Tsvangirai was pictured entertaining half a dozen skimpily dressed prostitutes at the Antelope Park…

Innscor & Zimplats Named In Millions Of Leaked Panama Documents On Alleged ‘Illegal Transactions’

Posted on May 10, 2016May 10, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Another high-profile Zimbabwean company has been named in the Panama Papers for payments and other transactions to directors which are viewed as illegal. The Panama Papers is a tranche of millions of leaked financial documents detailing a trove of billions sheltered in tax havens, and pocketed by political power players around the world. Innscor Africa has been named in the leaked documents as having engaged Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca to process payments to two…

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