IRAN and Zimbabwe signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the end of the ninth meeting of the two countries’ Joint Economic Committee in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday to expand economic cooperation. The document was signed by Iranian Labour and Social Welfare Minister Solat Mortazavi and Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Frederick Shava….
TRANSPORT minister Felix Mhona has appointed ex-TelOne managing director Chipo Mtasa as the new board chairperson of the national airline, Air Zimbabwe, with immediate effect. She took over from aviation professional Silvano Gwarinda, who was at the helm of the national airline since August last year. Mtasa would be deputised by former Air Zimbabwe chief…
GOING ahead with this year’s national elections without the country having implemented all requisite electoral reforms will plunge Zimbabwe into a deeper political and economic crisis, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, after Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa recently wrote to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking a meeting between…
BUSINESSMAN and Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Mayor Justice Wadyajena, together with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses — Pious Manamike, Maxmore Njani, Fortunate Molai and Chiedza Danha — is off the hook for now after the court granted the quintet’s application for refusal of further remand. This comes as the five accused had been facing fraud and…
THE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) acting deputy executive director Sonja LeightonKone, jetted into the country yesterday and is expected to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials to discuss issues on climate change, waste and pollution. She will be in the country until Saturday. Leighton-Kone is accompanied by Frank Turyatunga, the regional…
PARLIAMENT has opposed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform chairperson Tonderai Chidawa, who is challenging the authenticity of the preliminary delimitation report that it received from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to analyse and make recommendations. Chidawa wants the ConCourt to nullify Parliament recommendations on the report, arguing that the…
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) yesterday released Ordinary Level results of all candidates who wrote the examinations in November at Mukaro High School in Masvingo province, after initially withholding them last week. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Zimsec spokesperson Nicky Dhlamini confirmed that the examination board had withheld the boarding school’s…
A BATTLE for the control of a Gweru-based company, Greynut Investments, has escalated after the executor of the estate of the late owner Isaac Tichareva approached the High Court accusing the CEO, Tecklah Garira, of dissipating the company’s assets. Greynut Investments was owned by the late Isaiah Mudzengi. However, Tichareva is seeking the liquidation of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s focus is on running the country, working to improve the lives of all Zimbabweans and preparing for this year’s crunch national elections rather than engaging Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa. So said presidential spokesperson George Charamba yesterday, after Chamisa recently wrote to Mnangagwa again seeking a face-to-face meeting between…
THOUSANDS of apostolic church members at the weekend gathered in Hopley, Harare, where their church leaders urged them to observe peace in their communities as the country gears for the 2023 general elections. Hopley, a sprawling informal settlement south of Harare, is a hotbed for political skirmishes during election campaigns. Addressing the apostolic members in…
