HARARE – Jet-setting Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo, pictured below, was yesterday granted $2 000 bail by the High Court. Chivayo had been condemned to remand prison after he was denied bail at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Monday on grounds that he was a flight risk. Chivayo and his company — Intratek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services is holding the second edition of “family day visits” at Chikurubi Maximum Prison next week. Officer-in-Charge of Chikurubi Maximum Prison, assistant commissioner Tonderai Mutiwaringa, yesterday urged relatives and friends of inmates to visit their incarcerated relatives to promote their smooth integration back into society. Although being separated from…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) said there have been arbitrary assaults of urbanites in various high density suburbs of Harare and Chitungwiza, despite denials from government. In its post-election report, ZHRC said its investigation teams witnessed blatant beatings of civilians by soldiers. “The commission dispatched monitoring and investigative teams to assess…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s stunning revelation that he ordered the release of MDC Alliance co-principal Tendai Biti on Thursday has been condemned by the legal fraternity, which strongly feels that it has exposed how the Executive interferes with court processes. In an image-sprucing attempt that went horribly wrong — judging from the responses…
BULAWAYO – Human Rights Institute of South Africa (Hurisa) has waded into the chaos Zimbabwe has been plunged into following the just-ended elections which they described as sham. In a statement released yesterday, the human rights institute raised the red flag on the just-ended plebiscite. This comes after United States(US) President Donald Trump signed into…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is set to scuttle president-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inauguration, which had been scheduled for Sunday. This follows an announcement by his lawyer Thabani Mpofu yesterday that the Alliance would be filing a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) application before the expiry of a seven-day deadline within which all electoral challenges must…
HARARE – Dark clouds are hanging over Zimbabwe as the impasse over the hotly-contested July 30 presidential election continues — with political analysts warning yesterday that the country is entering “dangerous waters” where there will be no winners, the Daily News can report. This comes as there are growing allegations of a brutal government crackdown…
HARARE – Dark clouds are hanging over Zimbabwe as the impasse over the hotly-contested July 30 presidential election continues — with political analysts warning yesterday that the country is entering “dangerous waters” where there will be no winners, the Daily News can report. [Adz]
HARARE – MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti has been arrested at the Zimbabwe-Zambian border. Biti who is on police wanted list was set to seek political asylum in Zambia his lawyer said. Tendai Biti [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Political parties have urged the MDC Alliance and other aggrieved political parties to accept the poll results for the purposes of peace to prevail in the country. The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has refused to accept the poll results, arguing that besides the uneven electoral playing field, the poll result was rigged. As…
