STATE security agents on Wednesday shot and killed two people who were trying to disarm members of the security services in Victoria Falls, police have said. In a statement yesterday, the police said the two victims were killed in a shootout as authorities were on an anti-smuggling deployments and also enforcing coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown measures….
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw HARARE tycoon Farai Matsika has appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn last month’s High Court judgment that he fraudulently attempted to snatch 30 percent equity in Croco Holdings, a company owned by businessman Moses Chingwena, the Daily News reports. This comes as High Court judge, Justice Owen Tagu, last…
Sindiso Mhlophe and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS ANY lingering hopes that warring MDC factions would soon come to their senses were quashed yesterday, after the main opposition’s interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe, pictured, recalled a further 10 of the party’s legislators from Parliament. This latest bloodbath, which the Daily News exclusively and correctly…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are mulling effecting another round of electricity price increases to prevent the country from plunging into a debilitating power crisis like the one that was experienced last year, the Daily News reports. At the same time, the government is wary of disturbing the current relative economic stability which…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO PHYSICALLY-CHALLENGED people have lamented segregation in small-scale mining, calling on the government to empower them in the sector. Amid socio-economic malaise in the country, millions of poor Zimbabweans have turned to artisanal and small-scale mining as they try to fend for their families. However, few people living with disability have ventured…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema has insisted that schools are ready to reopen, saying if there is a resurgence of the lethal coronavirus (Covid-19), the government will not hesitate to close them. This comes as various stakeholders have slammed the government over its decision to reopen schools,…
WOES continue to mount for jailed former President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s top aide, Douglas Tapfuma, after the High Court threw out his bail appeal. Tapfuma was imprisoned in June following a full trial before Harare regional magistrate Esthere Chivasa and was sentenced to six years before two were suspended on condition of good behaviour. He…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE High Court has acquitted the Macquire brothers – Phillip and Christopher – of fraud charges, and in the process settled a long-standing dispute between Benard Mutanga and the Macquire family over the ownership, and control of Twairob Investments (Twairo ), which in turn owns Gurlyn Barton A (Gurlyn) Farm…
CROSS-BORDER traders have appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend the time-frame of coronavirus (Covid-19) tests. President of the Cross-Border Traders Association of Zimbabwe (CBTAZ) Killer Zivhu yesterday said the 48-hour window period of Covid-19 tests was too short for traders to do their work. The former Chivi South legislator appealed to Mnangagwa to issue…
THE Harare Residents Trust (HRT) has taken government to court demanding the construction of a public primary school in Tynwald South by January 2022. In the application filed by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) with the High Court, HRT cited the City of Harare, Local Government minister July Moyo and Education mister Cain Mathema…
