HARARE – Chinese nationals who reportedly shot and wounded the son of Zanu PF official, Keith Guzah, in a shoot-out will have to be put to their defence after the court ruled that they have a case to answer. Luo Tin Gpen, 27, Li Yize, 27, and a local, Gamuchirai Nigel Zuze, 23, had filed…
HARARE – The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has dragged a local company to court claiming they were duped $16 million in a housing construction deal. Masimba Xmas Shumba, 44, a chief finance officer at Housing Corporation Zimbabwe (Hcz) appeared before Harare magistrate Milton Serima charged with money laundering on Friday. He was granted $2…
HARARE – There was a missing polling station in Glen View North Constituency in Harare as polling stations opened yesterday, the Election Resource Centre has said. “The polling station that was meant to be situated at Glen View 1 Shopping Centre could not be located. Potential voters who were allocated to the polling station in…
HARARE – Voter turnout was high at most polling stations through out the country as Zimbabweans cast their votes in the first poll since 1980 not to feature ex-president Robert Mugabe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu PF voted at Sherwood in Kwekwe around mid-morning amid tight security. Hordes of journalists were camped at the polling…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba, has denied allegations that his boss breached the Electoral Act through his Facebook exhortation to the electorate not to vote for MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa ostensibly because he had struck a deal with former president Robert Mugabe. In a wide ranging interview with the Daily News…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe has professed ignorance about the abduction and disappearance of activist, Itai Dzamara. Dzamara was getting a haircut at a barbershop in the working class suburb of Glen View in Harare on March 9, 2015, when five armed men seized him, shoved him into an unmarked truck and sped off….
HARARE – Stung by sharp criticism over its rushed decision to report MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to the police on possible violation of the electoral law, while sparing his main rival for similar violations, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) was yesterday forced to do some serious damage control to save face. This came after…
HARARE – Former President Robert Mugabe has said that he wanted former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi to take over from him as leader of both Zanu PF and the State. Mugabe, who held a press conference at his Borrowdale home yesterday, said Sekeramayi, and not his wife Grace, was always his preferred choice. “Zanu PF…
HARARE – Government has assumed Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)’s debt under the controversial Reconstruction of State-Indebted Insolvent Companies Act. The Act allows the State to take over assets of businesses deemed to be insolvent and incapable of servicing loans and charges owed to State institutions and agencies. The reconstruction order in relation to AirZim (Private) Limited…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has embraced the white community in Zimbabwe, in a development that vindicates the late MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai who for many years, has been vilified by Zanu PF for his anti-racism stance. Recently, Mnangagwa who is the presidential candidate for the ruling Zanu PF party held a rally with…
