HARARE – Harare City Council has substantively appointed former director of water Hosea Chisango as its new town clerk. Chisango had been acting town clerk since December after Josephine Ncube was suspended. Ncube, facing charges of abusing council funds, had served as town clerk since 2014. Chisango’s appointment comes as Harare is battling to contain…
HARARE – The ninth Parliament will commence in earnest next week with a busy schedule which will see it debate a dozen bills proposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his State-of-the-Nation Address (Sona) on Tuesday. Mnangagwa, who officially opened the ninth Parliament’s first session, outlined a comprehensive legislative agenda that is premised on the need…
HARARE – Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday underwent what sources said had been a “successful” emergency surgery at a Harare hospital for a kidney-related ailment, the Daily News can report. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – A suspected international drug mule was busted at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport hiding a kilogram of cocaine in his suitcase handles, a court heard. Wilmer Taruzona Aro, 32, a Peruvian national who was coming from Brazil is now being charged with unlawful dealing in dangerous drugs. The State is objecting his admission…
HARARE – The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) yesterday donated 30 tonnes of assorted food stuffs to people affected by cholera. The donation consisted 10 tonnes of mealie-meal, five tonnes of rice and 5 000 loaves of bread. The food stuffs were collected from Blue Ribbon, National Foods, Manyame Milling, Nulenty and Alpha Grain….
HARARE – The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has rescheduled its 19th anniversary celebrations to next week at Gwanzura Stadium after a ban on public gatherings due to a cholera outbreak. Chamisa, last week, called off plans to mark the party’s 19th anniversary and concomitantly hold a mock inauguration to name himself as the country’s president in…
HARARE – Wholesaler Mahomed Mussa (MM) has described as “malicious and a hoax” statements that it had emptied its retail shelves in Harare, officials said yesterday. MM Wholesalers is one of the leading wholesale suppliers of a wide range of products located in Harare. This comes on the back of a deepening foreign currency shortage…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF is looking to revive its fallen business empire, crippled by gross mismanagement and corruption. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, which will be published in full in our sister Sunday paper, the ruling party’s administration secretary Obert Mpofu, expressed confidence that the business empire could…
HARARE – New Sport, Arts, Recreation minister and Olympic gold medallist Kirsty Coventry will make her maiden appearance as a Cabinet minister at a gospel music festival at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) tonight. The interdenominational gospel music event — Call To Worship, is a praise and worship extravaganza held every year, which draws…
HARARE – Twelve Zimbabweans — one man and 11 women — face the death sentence in China, unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government moves with speed to operationalise a prisoners’ exchange programme with the Asian economic giant, the Daily News has been told. China has a mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking cases and has executed…
