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‘The 140 Room Beitbridge Express Hotel Closes Down Following Heavy Losses’

Posted on February 3, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The US$32 million Beitbridge Express Hotel with 140-rooms has shut down. The hotel closed shop on January 31 after suffering heavy losses amounting to US$507 944 in the past two years. Below is the full statement issued on Wednesday (today) : The Board of Directors of Africa Sun Limited wish to announce that, the group agreed with Dawn Properties Limited (the Hotel owner) to mutually terminate the lease agreement for the Beitbridge Express Hotel and…

‘Police Commissioner-General Condemns Social Media Abuse’- Chihuri Please, Get Real!

Posted on February 3, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has deplored the use of social media by Zimbabweans to insult each other, saying this had the potential to cause instability in the country.- Comm-Gen Chihuri was addressing 31 officers leaving Zimbabwe on a United Nations peacekeeping mission to South Sudan. Though Comm-Gen Chihuri did not mention names, his comments coincide with frenzied tweeting by Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo who has not only…

Concourt Rules ‘Criminal Defamation Is Void At Law’

Posted on February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that criminal defamation was void at law, after journalists challenged the validity of Section 96 of the Criminal Codification and Reform Act. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, together with a full bench of the Constitutional Court granted the application by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Zimbabwe), NewsDay deputy editor Nqaba Matshazi , freelance journalists Godwin Mangudya and Sydney Saize and Rodger Stringer. The court said a 2015 judgment on…

Zimbabwe Lawyers For Human Rights, Statement On Arrest Of Prosecutor General Tomana

Posted on February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is disturbed by the arrest and detention of the Prosecutor General, Johannes Tomana, on 1 February 2016 and his appearance in court the following afternoon on charges of criminal abuse of office or alternatively obstructing the course of justice. The independence of the prosecutorial authority in Zimbabwe is constitutionally protected. Further safeguards exist under regional and international law. These provisions empower prosecutors to exercise their functions impartially…

Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana, Arrested And Transported In Detainees ‘Dog Section’

Posted on February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Tomana was yesterday granted $1 000 bail coupled with stringent reporting conditions when he appeared before provincial magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe facing charges of criminal abuse of office or alternatively obstructing the course of justice. The court ordered him to report three times a week at CID Harare Central Police Station, reside at his given address and not interfere with witnesses. The two soldiers — Solomon Makumbe (29), attached to 1 Field Regiment, and Silas Pfupa…

Former ZBC Broadcaster ‘Albert Kashiri’ Has Died In The United Kingdom’

Posted on February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

His former colleague Ramsley Knight posted on Facebook that the veteran broadcaster passed on. “Fellow Zimbabwean Broadcast Journalists, Radio Zimbabwe staff, all members of the Zimbabwean media fraternity and all comrades and friends, it is with deep sorrow that I advise of the death of Cde Albert Kashiri, one of the longest serving broadcasters at the ZBC,” Knight said. “Mukoma Albert Kashiri, popularly known as ‘Chosa’, passed away in hospital in the United Kingdom last…

Prosecutor General Tomana Arrested For Authorising Release Of Gushungo Dairy Bombers’

Posted on February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana, who was arrested yesterday, appeared before a Harare magistrate today facing charges of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer.Magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe granted him a US$1000 bail. The state alleges that Tomana authorised the release of two accused persons; Solomon Makumbe and Silas Pfupa, who were facing charges of attempting to bomb Gushungo Dairy Farm belonging to the first family in Mazowe. The state further alleges that Tomana made a…

‘Judge Orders Release Of Zimbabwean Criminal As UK Has No prospects Of deporting Him’

Posted on February 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

A UK judge has ordered immigration officials to release a Zimbabwean convicted criminal because the UK has “no prospect” of deporting him.Mr Justice Garnham, at the High Court in London, accepted that Andre Babbage was “likely” to abscond and offend. But he said Babbage’s continued detention was unjustified, because the home secretary was not going to be able to send him back to Zimbabwe. Babbage has UK convictions for supplying cocaine, assault and robbery. The…

‘Police Force White Farmer Rankin Off Farm For Grace Mugabe’s Family Connection- A British Doctor’

Posted on February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Police in Zimbabwe have reportedly forced a white farmer, Phillip Rankin, from his property, in a move aimed at paving the way for a Zimbabwean born doctor living in Britain.Rankini had been on the farm for 30 years. The Telegraph reported that Rankin was first told to vacate the farm after a claim to the land was made by Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro, in September 2015. Nyatsuro, 45, who owns a slimming clinic in Nottingham, England,…

US Gvt Urged To Influence Bretton Woods Institutions To Block New Lending To Zimbabwe

Posted on February 2, 2016February 2, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Government has castigated the United States for meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs in a way that seeks to weaken the country’s sovereign status and reverse its successful land reform programme.This was after the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations chairman Mr Bob Corker wrote a letter to that country’s secretary for Treasury Mr Jacob Lew on January 28, 2016 urging the US government to use its influence at the Bretton Woods institutions to block any…

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