HARARE – Our news editor Gift Phiri sits down for a wide-ranging interview with 39-year-old businessman Frank Buyanga. Find below excerpts of the interview. Q: I understand you commenced your entrepreneurial career in the United Kingdom in 1998 at the tender age of 18. Could you share a little bit about your background? A: In…
HARARE – Zanu PF youths have declared war on illegal traders and ruling party bigwigs suspected of being behind the country’s thriving foreign currency black market. Their warning comes as bond notes continue to crash precipitously against the United States dollar — causing mayhem in mainstream business and resulting in panicking shoppers rushing to hoard…
HARARE – Jittery Zimbabweans say Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s humiliating back pedalling on Friday — on his much-criticised two cents per transacted dollar tax — was “too little, too late” because the country is now facing “a full blown economic crisis”. They told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that the magnitude of the crisis…
HARARE – Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s divorce case has taken a dramatic turn after his estranged wife — recently given a restraining order against her husband — filed a High Court application challenging the protection order. This comes after the former State Security minister was granted a protection order against his wife after he petitioned…
HARARE – The High Court has ordered the State to pay $150 000 to human rights activist Jestina Mukoko as compensation for her abduction and torture which she suffered at the hands of State Security agents in 2008. In a press statement, Zimbabwe Peace Project and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said the compensation must…
HARARE – Government is planning to hike traffic fines in a controversial move it claims will reduce road accidents, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has revealed. Ziyambi made the announcement after Chief Fortune Charumbira asked what government was doing to curb Zimbabwe’s worsening road carnage and reckless driving. Charumbira also wanted to…
HARARE – High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi has dismissed an application by Air Namibia Proprietory Limited to stop the attachment of its plane and office equipment after a damages claim by a local family which was denied travel to Turkey by the airline’s officials. Chitapi’s order, dated September 24, 2018, was granted after Chenjerai Mawumba,…
HARARE – A Zimbabwean woman has approached the High Court seeking to stop the work of a commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate the August 1, 2018 killings, pending the outcome of another case in which she is demanding to have the appointment of some members nullified. It’s the latest…
HARARE – A former Midlands State University student accused of retweeting a message denigrating the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba and charged with criminal insult plans to change his plea. Night Tawona Shadaya, 25, initially pleaded guilty after he was charged with criminal insult charge for retweeting a message besmirching Chigumba in the…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has warned Zimbabweans to brace for more pain as he tries to pull the country’s tottering economy out of its current state. The well-regarded former banker has also said there is no going back on the controversial two cents per dollar transactional tax which has left a wide cross-…
