HARARE – Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe has recorded an increase in media violations carried out by the military as compared to the past years when the police were behind most of abuses of media practitioners. [GoogleAd] According to the media watchdog, while the police have abridged the past gruesome persecution of journalists, improving relations,…
Five protesters were yesterday each jailed five years after being found guilty of participating in a wave of demonstrations dubbed Shutdown Zimbabwe last month. [GoogleAd] Simbarashe Nyamadzawo, 22, Gilbert Jasimoni, 34, Abisha Musakanda, 24, George Tomu, 26, and Danny Sere, 27, were convicted of public violence charges before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya and were each…
The High Court is today expected to rule on former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa’s case in which he is seeking an order to stop his prosecution, arguing the charges levelled against him were fabricated. [GoogleAd] Parirenyatwa is before the courts facing criminal abuse of office charges after he reportedly interfered with and…
The recent fuel riots have left the justice delivery system in Bulawayo creaking under a deluge of cases which have forced the government to dispatch additional magistrates and prosecutors to the City of Kings in a bid to relieve pressure on the courts there. [GoogleAd] So serious is the issue that the government has even been…
In a rare piece of good news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, and his under pressure administration, he has been given a stay of execution by the European Union (EU), whose Parliament had proposed tough sanctions against him and many of his key lieutenants. [GoogleAd] Sources close to the EU told the Daily News yesterday that…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu’s body is expected to arrive today from South Africa, where he died last week. “The funeral parlour handling the matter is finalising the paperwork and the body is expected to leave for Zimbabwe on Tuesday (today),” Zimbabwe’s Consul-General to South Africa, Batiraishe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has finally broken its silence after pressure continued to mount from all ends for the human rights body to act upon the gross human rights violations, including rape of women and abuse of children by State security agents. In a statement, ZGC said it had been following the nationwide…
HARARE – Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement ministry has established a 99-year lease Help Desk. In a statement Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri said the help desk will facilitate processing of applications and issuance of 99-year leases to farmers who qualify. [GoogleAd] “The help desk will also…
HARARE – United States of America medical company, Hologic Inc has launched new HIV diagnosis tools in Zimbabwe which makes it quicker and easier for laboratories to diagnose and monitor HIV infections in the country. In a statement Hologic Inc said the new tool known as Aptima HIV-1 Quant will have two functions that will…
HARARE – Southern African civic society and social movements have taken aim at Southern African Development Community (Sadc) chair Hage Geingob accusing him of “lying” to the whole world about the present Zimbabwean socio-economic and political situation. Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN), a civic group said they were “greatly disturbed and perturbed” by the Namibian…
