HARARE – Government will be stepping up police highway patrols to curb road carnage, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said “Cabinet expressed grave concern over the recent road traffic accident which took place near Rusape and which claimed 46 lives,” Mutsvangwa told a news briefing after the Cabinet sitting on Tuesday. [GoogleAd] “To minimise such…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said there is no going back on his unpopular new tax on electronic transactions and promised expenditure cuts across government departments. The country introduced the tax on RTGS transactions and other such electronic money transfers that it said would help raise cash to plug a budget deficit by increasing…
HARARE – Harare businessman Munner Kamruddin Kazi has lost an assortment of household property attached to recover a $4,7 million debt owed to Oman-based investor Thamer Said Al Shanfari. According to an inventory seen by the Daily News, some of the items that were listed for attachment include chairs, fridges, a washing machine, a coffee…
HARARE – As the country marks exactly a year since the military rose up against former president Robert Mugabe by way of a popular coup, long-suffering Zimbabweans say they want President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to do more to improve their lives. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – In a surprising turn of events, some war veterans want to remove their national chairperson — Christopher Mutsvangwa — from office for allegedly undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The no confidence vote, and the subsequent demand to have Mutsvangwa expelled from Zanu PF altogether, come as fissures are widening in the former liberation movement…
HARARE – A Dzivarasekwa man masqueraded as a Nehanda Housing Cooperative chairperson before fleecing home seekers of $7 000 by selling them stands in dispute, a Harare court heard yesterday. Simba Moyo allegedly sold the stands without the knowledge of the cooperative and never remitted the money. Moyo appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa facing…
HARARE – As the country marks exactly a year since the military rose up against former president Robert Mugabe by way of a popular coup, long-suffering Zimbabweans say they want President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to do more to improve their lives. This comes after Mnangagwa earned a five-year mandate to steer the country…
HARARE – MDC women’s assembly chairperson Lynette Karenyi, who was accused of insulting former president Robert Mugabe, is off the hook after the State indicated yesterday that it was withdrawing the charges. The senior opposition member, who was initially arrested seven years ago, before being freed, with the State saying it would proceed by way…
HARARE – The trial of former Cabinet minister Samuel Undenge failed to continue yesterday after the only remaining State witness failed to appear in court. Prosecutor Zivanai Macharaga told the court their last witness, who is Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) finance director, is outside the country on business and could therefore not attend court. Macharaga…
HARARE – Leader of the break-away faction of the MDC — Thokozani Khupe, has called for unity of purpose among opposition parties and other stakeholders as part of the initiative to restore the country’s struggling economy as the bread basket of Africa. Khupe — one of the losing presidential candidates in the July 30 elections,…
