THE State has sought the authority of the ministry of Home Affairs to travel to Twitter headquarters in Nothern Ireland and institute extra territorial investigations into MDC secretary-general Chalton Hwende’s tweet. Hwende is facing subversion charges, but has disowned a Twitter post that the prosecution is relying on to pin him to the allegations. When…
THE opposition MDC has proposed that decisions made by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the conduct of elections in the country should be reviewed by the courts. The proposal is one of the 20 contained in the Nelson Chamisa- led party’s alternative draft Electoral Bill which seeks to amend the Electoral Act. “Zec must…
HEAVILY-armed police yesterday fought running battles with MDC youths, following a raid on the Chitungwiza residence of the main opposition party’s national vice chairperson Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes a week after the combative Zengeza West MP legislator said that he was being trailed by suspected security agents, following…
CIVIL society leaders and churches in Matabeleland have rejected plans by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to take leading roles in the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 1980s killings, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as Mnangagwa is set to convene a meeting with Matabeleland chiefs, to co-ordinate and fast…
ACTING chairperson of Parliament’s Women Affairs portfolio committee Miriam Chikukwa has disputed Higher and Tertiary Education ministry’s assertion that only three cases of sexual harassment of female students in tertiary institutions had been reported in the past year. Presenting oral evidence before the Women Affairs portfolio committee, Thomas Pamire from the Higher and Tertiary Education,…
HARARE West MDC MP Joana Mamombe has demanded that government address the plight of student doctors who are still to write their final exams that were due last December. The students, who were supposed to be deployed as junior doctors in the country’s public hospitals, were sent away when hospitals became incapacitated towards the end…
THE Health ministry reportedly overpriced a medical consignment that came from India last year, the bulk of which was deemed unfit for use in the country, the Daily News can report. The said equipment was bought in India after President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s intervention last year and engineers declared close to 90 percent of the equipment…
THE inspection of the distribution schedule to be used in payment of former Ziscosteel pension scheme members which was slated to take place from February 2-16, 2020, has been postponed. ZiscoSteel Pension Scheme had urged its members to regularise their documentations. “Notice is given to all former members of Zisco Pension Scheme that the scheme…
KADOMA City Council has announced its intention to lease 30 000 square metres of land for commercial use in the Baobab area. In a statement, Kadoma Town Clerk Malvern Dondo said copies of the council resolution and the detailed terms and conditions of the lease will be open for inspection at the office of the…
THREE people have been nabbed by police in the capital while trying to sell a pistol to potential buyers, the police have said. This comes after a series of armed robberies have been recorded countrywide, including the Makoni Shopping centre, Chitungwiza daylight robbery. “Two men and a woman were arrested in Harare after being found…
