HARARE – Former Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti has once again drawn the High Court whip as he is set to lose property in a case between him and African Century Limited. [GoogleAd] In a notice published yesterday, the Sheriff of the High Court has instructed Prolific Auctions to sell by public auction Muguti’s Mercedes Benz…
HARARE – The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment and Tourism will summon the minister of Environment Prisca Mupfumira over the continued destruction of wetlands in Harare. [GoogleAd] Committee chairperson Concillia Chinanzvavana said the minister should answer for some of the development projects that are leading to the water problems being experienced in Harare as a result…
HARARE – Zimbabwean students who are on the presidential scholarship scheme are finding it difficult to get by because government is struggling to fund their needs. Thousands of students are on the presidential scholarship programme, which caters for academically-gifted youths from vulnerable backgrounds such as orphans. [GoogleAd] At the moment, most of these students are studying…
HARARE – Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe has filed a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) application seeking the nullification of the appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the substantive Prosecutor General (PG). The application comes barely a fortnight after another Harare man made a similar request. [GoogleAd] According to both men’s lawyer Thabani Mpofu, the two applications remain extant before the…
BULAWAYO – Five armed robbers pounced on a South Africa-bound Brooklyn Bus from Bulawayo to Mussina on Monday evening and got away with valuables worth thousands of dollars. Thirty-six passengers were said to be on-board and they lost valuables that includes cash, cell-phones and passports. [GoogleAd] According to sources, the incident occurred on Monday around 11pm…
HARARE – The silence by the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) on the on-going human rights abuses in Zimbabwe has drawn widespread condemnation from critics and neutrals alike. While many were expecting the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe to feature prominently at the 32nd ordinary session of the AU held in Addis…
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of thunderstorms and heavy rains in excess of 50 millimetres in just 24 hours in some parts of the country. In a statement the MSD said the rains may come in sharp downpours, damaging winds, lightning, and hailstorm and causing flash flooding in some areas. There are also…
HARARE – Delays in the processing of passports have hit Zimbabwe, with Registrar General Clemence Masango blaming a worsening foreign currency crisis which has sparked the downsizing of operations fearing a stock-out of passport paper in two months. Zimbabwe’s economy has been struggling since it ditched its inflation-wracked Zim dollar in 2009 and adopted the…
HARARE – A fresh wave of votes of no confidence against senior officials in Zanu PF has consumed the ruling party. The Daily News can report that a number of Zanu PF officials now face an uncertain future over unproven charges that border on corruption and disloyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. [GoogleAd] This is reminiscent of…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismissed claims that the army raped women and killed people during recent protests over massive increases in the price of fuel. In an interview with France24 in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Mnangagwa said the women who appeared in interviews saying…
