HARARE – Delta Corporation is contributing $260 000 towards the upgrade of a road junction linking its Fairbridge Chibuku Super plant in the second city with the Harare-Bulawayo highway. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed concern said the rehabilitation of the plant in 2016 has necessitated the upgrade of the road junction that links…
HARARE – Chief Justice Luke Malaba had a torrid time in Parliament yesterday after the opposition legislators tried to stop him from swearing-in speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and his deputy Tsitsi Gezi. Malaba was embarrassed when he entered the National Assembly chambers as the MDC Alliance MPs started to sing “mbavha, mbavha”…
HARARE – Most victims of politically-motivated violence and other human rights violations triggered by the disputed July 30 polls suffered abuse silently as they feared reprisals, a report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) said. According to ZPP, of the country’s 10 provinces, Harare had the highest number of violations at 54 in August alone….
HARARE – Ex-Cabinet minister Walter Chidakwa’s lawyer has complained that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Special Anti-Corruption Unit is causing confusion that has stalled progress in prosecution of alleged graft matters that are before the courts. Advocate Sylvester Hashiti is representing Chidakwa in a criminal abuse of office matter the former minister is alleged to have presided…
HARARE – Two convicted armed robbers allegedly broke into businessman Genius Kadungure’s Sankayi night club warehouses and stole $12 000 worth of liquor, a court heard yesterday. Timothy Hamunakwadi, 28, and Hussein Goche, 23, both from Chitungwiza, have pending cases ranging from robbery to theft before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. They allegedly committed the current…
HARARE – Police are hunting for a convicted rapist who vanished from Rotten Row Courts holding cells immediately after receiving a 15-year jail term. During roll call, prison officers discovered that Emmanuel Sibanda, 26, who had just been handed down the hefty penalty by Harare regional magistrate Morgan Nemadire was nowhere near the court building….
BULAWAYO – Tsholotsho’s Chief Gampu has dragged his girlfriend Soneliso Ndlovu, 52, for allegedly defrauding him of over $34 000 in a housing deal that went wrong. Ndlovu who has been a Zanu PF senator for the past 10 years until the just-ended harmonised election appeared before magistrate Gladmore Mushowe facing fraud charges. She was…
BULAWAYO – Political activists here have taken a swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for tampering with Gukurahundi mass graves at Bhalagwe Shrine, in Kezi, Matabeleland South Province. This comes after it emerged that government erased inscriptions on the mass graves leaving them blank in what political activists say is a move to conceal evidence…
HARARE – The death toll from the cholera outbreak has risen to 20 people from 16 over the weekend, the Daily News heard yesterday. This comes as government declared an emergency on Harare to monitor the epidemic. Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo confirmed yesterday that 20 people have succumbed to the waterborne disease…
HARARE – The new Cabinet announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday last week significantly dilutes Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s influence in the security sector, the Daily News can report. In the previous Cabinet which presided over the country’s affairs between November 2017 and last month, Chiwenga was responsible for the ministry of Defence —…
