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MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai hailed on Saturday the decision by Kenya’s top court to order a new presidential election as a “step towards democracy”.   Tsvangirai, has made three failed attempts at the presidency, losing all of them to long-ruling leader Robert Mugabe.   “This is an unprecedented decision in the whole of Africa and I think it’s a good step towards democracy,” Tsvangirai told thousands of supporters at a rally organised by an alliance…

A Harare woman forced her 17-year-old granddaughter into marriage with a Murehwa businessman, who allegedly raped the teenager on several occasions at gunpoint.   The businessman, Wonder Nyanhiki (40), who owns a night club, is also alleged to have assaulted the teenager with a belt and fists whenever she refused to be intimate with him.   It is the State’s case that after marrying off her granddaughter, she then ordered Nyanhiki to transfer money into…

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is now enforcing post importation audits in a massive crackdown on shops and companies suspected of selling smuggled goods. This is part of strategies the revenue authority is implementing to curb smuggling amid indications that goods were being smuggled prejudicing the State of millions of dollars.   Responding to questions from The Sunday Mail last week, ZIMRA Corporate Communications official Mr Canisio Mudzimu said, “Smuggling is an illegal and underground…

Police have arrested a Bulawayo businessman for allegedly externalising more than $500 000 in breach of the country’s foreign exchange rules.   Edward Nyevera, a director of Lysavay Enterprise Private Limited, opened a foreign currency account and externalised $510 367 to Botswana without the approval of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.   Nyevera appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Josephine Sande charged with contravening the Exchange Control Act, which prohibits dealing in gold, currency or securities…

Primary schools in Matabeleland South reportedly being  forced to teach Shona AT least five primary schools in Matabeleland South have reportedly been forced to teach Shona as the indigenous language due to a shortage of Ndebele-speaking teachers as the issue of deployment of teachers continues to raise dust. Teachers and some officials from the province confirmed the development, adding that there was a need for urgent action not only over the issue of Ndebele teachers…

A fuel tanker collided with a rice tanker today in Macheke. In the resultant accident chaos, people collected loads of free rice, oblivious of the risk of fire from the leaking fuel tanker. More news to follow. By Sibusiso Ngwenya.

Bizarre coffin ritual in Mapecca saga The late Tawanda ‘MaPecca’ Moyo’s relatives this morning took his body to his alleged killer’s shop in the city centre to express their bitterness. MaPecca, a former member of Siyaya Arts group was shot by businessman Mr Oricious Moyo when he allegedly confronted him while he was relaxing with Mapecca’s wife, Jaqueline Moyo in a car on July 25. There was a brief traffic jam at corner 12th Avenue…

At least 60,000 residents were evacuated today after the discovery of an unexploded second world war (WWII ) bomb in Frankfurt , the German financial capital;   The British second world war bomb was discovered during construction work in Frankfurt and thousands of residents in Frankfurt had to be evacuated from their homes early on Sunday morning as specialists prepare to defuse the massive second world war bomb in an area that houses Germany’s central…

‘Zimbabweans must desist from blaming Government for their personal failures, but aspire to succeed through innovation’-Grace Mugabe   “I have seen people with PhDs asi hapana chinobudirira because zvinonzi dai hurumende, dai hurumende. We are sending you to school to get educated so that you become innovative. You can’t be relying on Government for everything. Government is only there to facilitate for us to be able to do business.” Sundaynews

THE eldest daughter of the late Chief Mvuthu Mlotshwa of Hwange District, Miss Silibaziso Mlotshwa, has sought to take her fight to succeed her father to the Constitutional Court after she was blocked from taking over the throne because she experiences monthly menstrual periods, among other reasons.   Miss Mlotshwa (23), through her lawyer Mr Thulani Ndlovu of Sansole and Senda Legal Practitioners, last week applied for leave to have direct access to the Constitutional…