Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive, the Daily News can report. Togarepi and his lieutenants are under fire for “misconduct and for “letting down” President Emmerson Mnangagwa over…
A FRESH political crisis may be brewing in the country after opposition leader Nelson Chamisa snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s talks-about-talks gathering at State House yesterday, as authorities begin to show more urgency about ending Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic mess. Chamisa said he had rebuffed Mnangagwa’s meeting because he preferred the much-talked about national dialogue…
A Harare court yesterday sentenced an HIV-positive maid to 25 years in prison for intentionally infecting a 12-year-old boy with the virus and a sexually transmitted infection. Memory Makore, a 40-year-old house help, allegedly coaxed the boy on two occasions, infecting him with the virus and genital warts. Makore pleaded guilty to two counts of…
THE Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has thrown out, with costs, an application by a Harare man Simbarashe Zuze who had challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the country’s substantive prosecutor general. “It is ordered that: the request for an interim case management order, having been deemed abandoned in terms of Section 9 (6)…
JUDICIAL Service Commission (JSC) acting secretary Walter Chikwana has defended president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the country’s substantive prosecutor general, following an application filed by a Harare man who is seeking to have the appointment nullified. This comes after an applicant, Simbarashe Zuze, filed a Constitutional Court application arguing Hodzi scored badly…
Zimbabwe’s main opposition has said security forces were abducting its members in night raids in a massive crackdown in the wake of the unrest sparked by a national strike. At least 12 people have been killed in an army clampdown and hundreds wounded, in scenes reminiscent of the long rule of Robert Mugabe, when the…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored advice from a South Africa-based local businessman that a wage hike was the best way to deal with public sector union grievances, and that a failure to award an increment would have a messy aftermath. This emerges as Zimbabwe’s main teacher unions unfurled a general strike Monday that has shut down…
United Kingdom (UK) minister of Africa Harriett Baldwin has said her country is not considering removing sanctions on Zimbabwe, as it contemplates widening the embargo list to include officials in the army, following a recent crackdown on civilians by members of the security forces. Speaking before the International Development Committee, which was making an inquiry into…
ZIMBABWE National Association of Mental Health (ZNAMH) has revealed that children as young as nine and 10 around the country are selling drugs in primary schools. The association conducted a research which shockingly showed that Grade 4 pupils are being initiated into drugs as they are selling them to others at school. ZNAMH board member…
GOVERNMENT says it has unfrozen 1 762 posts in the health sector, this comes in the wake of a massive shortage of health workers which inflamed the industrial action by doctors last year. Among the doctors’ demands was that government unfreezes posts to aid the ailing under-staffed workers, who led a crippling strike for 40…
