HARARE – Treasury is set to splash over $20 million on top-of-the range vehicles for Members of Parliament and Senators in the ninth Parliament. This is at a time when government is struggling to mobilise resources to contain a cholera outbreak that has since been declared a national disaster. The Daily News is reliably informed…
HARARE – Red Cross has deployed volunteers to support communities affected by the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed 25 lives. There are fears that the outbreak might spread across the country as it started in an urban area with high density and high population mobility. Sporadic cases have already been reported in Midlands,…
HARARE – The MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe will hold its 19th anniversary celebrations at a date to be confirmed. This is seen setting the stage for a counter-attraction given that the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is also planning to conduct its own 19th anniversary celebrations this weekend. “We have not yet come up with a…
HARARE – Activist Paddington Japajapa, 50, has been summoned to appear in court and answer to disorderly conduct allegations after allegedly shouting at the Zambian ambassador to Zimbabwe. Japajapa appeared before Harare magistrate Nyasha Vitorini and will be in court for trial on a date yet to be finalised. The complainant is Zelipa Chitambo, the…
HARARE – Government has lashed out at the behaviour of MDC Alliance MPs after the legislators hackled Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba in Parliament on Tuesday. Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi who is leader of government business in the august House promised to put in place necessary instruments to…
HARARE – New members of Parliament from the ruling Zanu PF party received a baptism of fire in the National Assembly on Tuesday. Still trying to learn the ropes in the august House after emerging victorious in the just-ended national polls, the new MPs were subjected to incessant heckling and name-calling by legislators from the…
HARARE – Ghanaians are paying their last respects to former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Atta Annan. The remains of Annan were, this week, returned to the country from Switzerland where he died at the age of 80. Yesterday, his body lay in state for paying of respects by the public and dignitaries. The former global…
HARARE – Delays in the finalisation of a settlement agreement between government and Meikles Limited have resulted in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed concern failing to publish its financial results on time. The debt accrued in 1998 from transactions related to the group’s dual listing on the ZSE and the London Stock Exchange. It stood…
HARARE– A localelection watchdog has highlighted three major areas that need improvement if Zimbabwe is to hold free, fair and credible elections in future. In its analysis of elections held in the last three years, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) noted that Zimbabwe’s polls faltered on three major fronts namely imperfections in the legal framework;…
BULAWAYO – Lawyers representing a commuter omnibus driver arrested for insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa have applied for discharge at the close of the State’s case. Dickson Abraham of Tanaka Law Chambers who was seconded to the case by the Christian Legal Council to represent the accused, David Ndlovu, argued that the complainant in the matter…
