FORMER CABINET MINISTER , NICHOLAS GOCHE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT in Bindura on allegations of stealing an undisclosed number of cattle. Goche who spent Wednesday night in custody is likely to appear in court today facing stock theft charges. National police spokesperson Assistant Comm Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest and said he was yet to get the details of the case.Nicholas Goche was the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare and Minister of…

MDC ALLIANCE LEADER NELSON CHAMISA HAS TO RECOGNISE the Supreme Court ruling which installed Thokozani Khupe as acting MDC-T president for talks between the two factions of Zimbabwe’s biggest opposition political party to take place, Business Times can report.The national executive councils of the two parties have been holding separate meetings to strategise on the way forward following the declaration by the party’s youths wings that the two leaders Chamisa and Khupe must meet face…

WHITE FARMERS STORMED THE SEKAL MAGISTRATES COURT BUILDING ON TUESDAY AND SET A POLICE CAR ON FIRE, demanding that the suspects who are accused of killing a white farmer be handed over to them.According to pictures on social media, they damaged the court property while forcing their way to the court cells. A police van parked outside the court building was also overturned and burned.Lobby group AfriForum deputy CEO Ernst Roets said the anger from…

MDC ALLIANCE PRESIDENT NELSON CHAMISA AND OTHER party members are not welcome at the MDC-T’s extraordinary congress according to reinstated secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora .The MDC-T is set to hold an extraordinary congress before November 30 after the party was ordered by the Supreme Court to elect a leader who will replace founding president Morgan Tsvangirai.Tsvangirai died in February 2018.Speaking on New Zim TV’s The Agenda Monday, Mwonzora said the MDC-T would not allow Chamisa to…

AN ESIGODINI MAN ( 24) allegedly raped his neighbour’s wife over a debt (R50 ) owed by her husband.The man from Ntabenende area in Esigodini who cannot be named for ethical reasons was not asked to plead when he appeared before Gwanda magistrate, Miss Lerato Nyathi facing a rape charge. He was remanded in custody to October 19.Prosecuting, Miss Ethel Mahachi said the man raped the complainant on August 14 at around 9PM after he…

A HWANGE MAN ERASMUS TSHUMA (20) ALLEGEDLY DRAGGED a woman from her minor children and raped her repeatedly overnight after viciously attacking her husband. Erasmus Tshuma of C51 Lwendulu and employed at Zimberly Investments, allegedly went to to the couple’s homestead in a village on the outskirts of Hwange town around 11pm and threw stones at a bedroom hut. A HWANGE MAN ERASMUS TSHUMA (20) ALLEGEDLY DRAGGED a woman from her minor children and raped…

PICTURE SHOWS THE wreckage from the horrific accident that killed five people and left 34 others injured last Saturday near Tombo one Business Centre in Nyanga North. Three people who died in a road accident that occured along the Nyanga-Nyamaropa road at the weekend have been laid to rest at their family home in Kanyimo, Nyanga this morning.The other two are expected to be buried tomorrow morning in Nyanga. The five died when the truck…

ZIMBABWE’S JUNIOR DOCTORS WILL NOW BE CONSCRIPTED into the army soon after graduating in a move to militarising the health sector and stop them from going on strike or leaving the country for greener pastures, according to a new order released by the militarised Mnangagwa Zanu pf regime on September 28. All junior doctors must now be recruited as military doctors for them to be able to work in Zimbabwe government hospitals. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga,…

Harare City Council has been battling to replace chairpersons of committees after the axe fell on those who were appointed by Gomba and given the depleted numbers of councillors remaining, it has been difficult to have all committees functional.MDC Alliance secretary for local government Sessel Zvidzai said the party’s “smart city” strategy as promised to the electorate had been put in flames because of the recalls.“With what is happening, you are now realising there are…

TRIP TRANS BUS ACCIDENT-FIVE people died in a road accident that occurred at the 34km peg along the Nyanga-Nyamaropa while at Mupedzanhamo, in Harare, a Zupco contracted Trip Trans bus veered off the road and hit several vendors and eight cars yesterday. In a statement, National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the Nyanga-Nyamaropa accident occurred after a truck which was carrying more than 25 people lost brakes and veered off the road. Twenty-two…