MACRO-ECONOMIC Planning and Investment Promotion minister and business tycoon Obert Mpofu is set to lose 50 properties he reportedly surrendered as surety to secure a $2 million loan from CBZ Bank after the financial institution approached the High Court seeking provisional sentence on a liquid document.   The Zanu-PF secretary for finance – who owns companies such as Trebo and Khays, Maminza Transport, and Khanondo Safari and Tours – could be sitting on a crumbling…

BULAWAYO WOMAN SENTENCED to 360 hours of community service for assaulting her nephew to death for allegedly stealing Z$100 000   A WOMAN from Bulawayo who indiscriminately assaulted her nephew to death for allegedly stealing Z$100 000, was yesterday ordered to perform 360 hours of community service.   Ntombizodwa Ncube (46) of Cowdray Park suburb fatally assaulted Brighton Moyo (10) on suspicion that he stole school fees money which had gone missing in their house…

Former Finance minister and now leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Tendai Biti, has made an impassioned plea to MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai to move decisively on the mooted grand opposition alliance – warning that any further dithering on the matter could gift Zanu-PF victory in next year’s make-or-break national polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Biti also warned that the opposition would probably face “a different and just as difficult Zanu-PF candidate”…

At almost a century old, with half a century in politics and a third of a century in power, Mugabe’s legacy after 33 years as the absolute ruler of Zimbabwe, is one of, a hero turned villain, world statesman turned black oppressor, a national icon of hope and freedom to a despot , dictator and the crashing of a people’s dream of freedom, hope, unity, equality and prosperity for all.   It is a legacy…

  DETAILS of the late Retired General Solomon Mujuru’s vast empire have started emerging despite concerted efforts by his widow, former Vice President Joice Mujuru, to conceal the riches, The Herald can reveal.   Rtd Gen Mujuru died in August 2011 in an inferno, leaving behind an empire ranging from real estate, pharmaceutical, farming, to diamond mining – igniting a battle between Mrs Mujuru and some of the intended beneficiaries – mainly children.   Documents…

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy has been admitted to Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo after his mother, who is a psychiatric patient, allegedly chopped off his manhood.   The woman from Magwegwe North suburb, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, was alleging that her son’s privates were too big for his age.   The baby was rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital where he has been admitted for the past two months.   Authorities are reportedly now…