A HARARE woman claiming to be possessed by the spirit of Mbuya Nehanda, pictured, found herself in court yesterday accused of disorderly conduct. Lilian Chimonyo, 36, was allegedly nabbed while holding a placard inscribed “President ED Mnangagwa ndipei musoro wangu ndizorore”. She was not asked to plead to the allegations when she appeared before Harare…
SEVEN human rights activists who were accused of plotting to topple the government after attending a workshop in Maldives were freed yesterday. They were removed from remand after the State failed to provide them with a trial date. George Makoni, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura, Nyasha Mpahlo, Farirayi Gumbonzvanda, Sithabile Dewa and Beauty Rita Nyampinga were…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe will tomorrow replace 15 proportional representation MPs as well as senators she recalled from Parliament recently for siding with her rival, Nelson Chamisa’s faction, the Daily News reports. Last week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) gazetted 15 proportional representation (party list) seats that were…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw INTERNATIONAL labour organisations continue to pile pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government demanding that it respects workers’ rights. This follows the recent characterisation of the country’s largest labour unions, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, by the ruling Zanu PF party as a terrorist organisation. Southern Africa Trade Union…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE Republic Police deputy commissioner-general Stephen Mutamba and head of Criminal Investigation Department, commissioner Chrispen Charumbira, have been accused of interfering in operations of a mine in Mashava, Masvingo. Two Flags Trading owners, one of the mines in the dispute, recently wrote to commissioner- general Godwin Matanga raising a complaint…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mphakama Mbete, has refuted claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special envoys snubbed the country’s opposition and civil society organisations when they came to Harare on Monday. Mbete told the Daily News yesterday that while the envoys had come to Zimbabwe with an open mind…
AS POLITICAL tension continues to mount in Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa claimed yesterday that there was a plot to divide the country’s security forces in an alleged bid to fuel national instability, the Daily News reports. This came a day after Mnangagwa also lashed out at what he termed “renegades” within and outside the country,…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS THE African Union Commission (AUC) is following closely political developments in Zimbabwe and has warned the government against flouting its human rights charter. In a statement, AUC chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said he was concerned about reports of disproportionate use of force by security forces in enforcing…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw SUSPENDED Zanu PF youth league leaders Pupurai Togarepi and Lewis Matutu have completed their rehabilitation at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology and are now set to bounce back in the party, the Daily News reports. Matutu, who was the youth league deputy secretary and political commissar…
AFRICAN Union (AU) Special Envoy for Covid-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa, pictured, has called on community leaders — including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament — to lead in arresting the spread of Covid-19 at the local level. Masiyiwa at the weekend said some traditional and cultural rites have to be suspended in…
