Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw THE High Court has ordered a building society to pay back a local firm its money deposited into the financial institution’s account in 2016 in United States dollars. This was after the financial institution had sought to pay back the money using bond notes. In the application, Penelope Douglas…
Fungi Kwaramba POLITICAL EDITOR kwarambaf@dailynews.co.zw ©️ WITH the unity and credibility of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under pressure administration suffering a fresh blow this week — after his ministers were involved in an unseemly public quarrel — it seems inevitable that something will have to give soon. This comes as Zanu PF insiders have told the…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw A KENZAMBA cop who allegedly raped his girlfriend after heavily assaulting her and a soldier accused of sodomising a 14-year-old girl have appeared in court. Dereck Kapita, 42, appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko charged with physical abuse and rape. He was remanded in custody to May 18 and…
Shamiso Dzingire in BULAWAYO THE National TB Reference Laboratory, in conjunction with the National University of Science and Technology(Nust)’s Applied Genetics and Testing Centre (AGTC) have stopped testing for Covid-19 due to lack of consumables. This was revealed by the AGTC’s director Zephania Dhlamini yesterday when Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Raymond Machingura toured…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he was under pressure to lift the national lockdown and re-open the country’s ailing economy, but indicated that his priority is to save lives first before the economy. This comes as the number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in Zimbabwe has risen to 37, with…
EcoCash’s sister company VAYA Express, through VAYA Express Medical Deliveries, recently started offering free delivery of medical supplies to help Zimbabweans in need of critical medicines and drugs during the restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. VAYA Express Medical Deliveries begun collaborating with Maisha Health fund (formerly Steward Health) to help Zimbabweans…
©️ IT’S a sad reality that Zimbabwe’s fortunes have been plunging on many fronts for the past four decades. Unfortunately, one of the things that should have fallen for good by now, but which is stubbornly defying this gravitational pull, is the toxic nature of our politics. In this polarised climate, the boneheads and windbags…
Fungi Kwaramba POLITICAL EDITOR kwarambaf@dailynews.co.zw DARING MDC legislators on Tuesday openly revolted against the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC faction’s directive to disengage from parliamentary business after attending a portfolio committee meeting, as factional wars in the main opposition party took a new twist. This came a day after hordes of MPs roundly rejected overtures by the…
Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE number of food-insecure people in urban areas is likely to increase to 3,3 million due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said. This comes as the bigger chunk of Zimbabwe’s population is into informal trading, a sector that has been affected most by…
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday swore in eight new commissioners of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) in compliance with the Constitution which requires the appointment of 13 commissioners. Supreme Court judge Chinembiri Bhunu, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi, Thandaza Masiye Moyo, Misheck Hogwe, Nokuthula Moyo, Rosalie Kumbirai Katsande, Francis Chingozho and Trish Jasi, were appointed as…
