HARARE – A suspected armed robber who has been on the run since January after reportedly hijacking the daughter of National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru appeared in court on Saturday. Tatenda Answerlin Tsvuura appeared before Harare magistrate Learnmore Mapiye, charged with car theft. He was remanded in custody to October 11 and advised…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has begun impounding pirate taxis and commuter omnibuses that are operating with fake rank discs and so far 240 vehicles have been taken in. HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme said this is also part of the city’s clean-up against congestion in the Central Business District (CBD) and that the impounded…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) needs more than $1 billion to repair old, damaged infrastructure and to build two major dams the city’s mayor has said. HCC mayor Herbert Gomba said council urgently requires $150 million for all pipe replacement that go to as far as western suburbs, CBD and all other areas. “We…
HARARE – Air Zimbabwe has lost two of its best female pilots who have reportedly joined Emirates and Fast jet. Chipo Matimba who in November 2015 together with Captain Elizabeth Simbi Petros flew the country’s first ever all-female flight deck crew from Harare to Victoria Falls has reportedly left for Fastjet while Merna Cremer wife…
HARARE – A teacher who came out as gay quit his job after receiving death threats, sparking an online petition supporting him which had received 1 500 signatures by Friday last week. Neal Hovelmeier, who taught for 15 years at St John’s College, a posh Harare school, came out to students last week, hoping it…
HARARE – Resignation of the gay deputy headmaster of St Johns College in Harare is an indication that there should be dialogue about homosexual teachers, a teachers’ union official has said. Neal Hovelmeier resigned after his confession before students on September 21 that he was gay triggered an outcry . He resigned citing death threats…
HARARE – Another German tourist was on Saturday seriously injured after he was trampled by an elephant as he tried to film it in Victoria Falls. The incident comes two days after another German national was trampled to death by a jumbo at Mana Pools game reserves as she tried to photograph it. Zimbabwe Parks…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is not qualified to accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa of being an illegitimate president because he (Chamisa) is also illegitimate, Thokozani Khupe, leader of the breakaway MDC has said. Through her spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni, Khupe said Chamisa is guilty of what he is accusing Mnangagwa of. “When he cries of…
HARARE – Former vice president Joice Mujuru’s National People’s Party (NPP) has all but collapsed after almost all its senior members deserted the party before it has even celebrated its third birthday. Analysts told the Daily News yesterday that what has happened to NPP demonstrates the future political limitations for anyone who was once a…
HARARE – Former Botswana president Ian Khama has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against entertaining fly by night foreign investors who do not add value to the country’s tottering economy, the Daily News on Sunday can report. Speaking during a Confederation of Zimbabwe Industry Investment Forum in Bulawayo on Thursday,the truth-telling Khama who fell out with…
