© AT LEAST 44 workers have dragged the Chitungwiza Municipality to the High Court demanding over $700 000 in salary arrears. The employees claim that they entered into a deed of settlement with the municipality in which the council agreed to make an initial payment of $3 000 to all the claimants who are owed…
© THE trial of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) executive director Godfrey Mahachi and his deputy Darlington Munyikwa for corruptly awarding each other more than 18 000 litres of petrol has been set for January 27 next year. Mahachi, 59, and Munyikwa, 52, yesterday appeared before deputy chief magistrate Crispen Mberewere. [GoogleAd] Mahachi…
© FORMER Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira is suffering from depression and cannot stand trial now as she needs up to three months to recover, a court heard yesterday. Mupfumira’s trial on corruption charges, where she is jointly charged with former Public Service permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka, was set to start in Harare from yesterday to…
© ZIMBABWE is lagging behind in upholding human rights and the rule of law, local human rights organisations have said. Speaking to the Daily News on International Day of Human Rights celebrated every year on December 10, the organisations said the government had a duty to ensure citizens enjoy all rights provided for by the…
VARUN Beverages, a subsidiary of India’s RJ Corp, is set to expand into the agricultural sector as part of its investment and expansion plans. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa indicated that he would provide land for free to Varun Beverages upon its request. Speaking on the sidelines of Varun Beverages’ US$20 million phase two plant…
© Banker and former Africa First ReNaissance Corporation Limited (Afre) executive chairperson, Patterson Timba, has lost his Philadelphia Harare Estate worth $14 million after he was placed under sequestration by the High Court of Zimbabwe. Sequestration is the surrender of an individual’s estate to the High Court under the Insolvent Act when one realises that…
© THE UNITED Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Women Affairs ministry has launched a mobile One Stop Centre (OSC) for gender-based violence survivors in Hopley, Harare, to reduce the number of physical facilities that they have to visit to access services. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country is commemorating 16 Days of…
© ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWA) chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has said the ruling Zanu PF is not threatened by the launch of a political movement by self-exiled former ruling party stalwart, Saviour Kasukuwere. This comes as Kasukuwere’s movement, Tyson Wabantu, was launched in Bulawayo last week by a group of disgruntled former Zanu…
© OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa is toning down on one of his key demands for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa — to have an external mediator and is now open to either a local cleric or retired judge mediating such talks, the Daily News reports. This comes as relations between authorities and Chamisa are widely accepted…
A jittery Zanu PF — battling to deal with the country’s deepening political and economic crises — has launched an expansive investigation into the sources of leaks of sensitive party and State information to its political foes. Well-placed sources told the Daily News at the weekend that ruling party bigwigs were “hopping mad” that classified…
