HARARE – The permanent secretary in the Office of President and Cabinet, Boniface Chidyausiku and Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Bindura North Kenneth Musanhi have been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay their water bills to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa). Zinwa has since filed two separate applications, in a…
HARARE – More than 200 parents besieged Sunningdale 2 Primary School in Harare yesterday, baying for the blood of the institution’s deputy headmistress whom they accuse of practising satanism. The deputy headmistress, only identified as Marawa, strenuously denied the allegations when she was made to address the enraged parents who had gathered inside the school…
HARARE – After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt in Bulawayo on Saturday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is due to institute a top-to-bottom review of security agencies’ protocols after the bombing incident exposed serious lapses in his close security. The Daily News can exclusively report that there would be a sweeping overhaul of security agencies’ advance work…
HARARE – After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt in Bulawayo on Saturday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is due to institute a top-to-bottom review of security agencies’ protocols after the bombing incident exposed serious lapses in his close security. [Adz]
HARARE – The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) has fired 62 officers over corruption, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has revealed. In a report on the operations of Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) and VID, the committee said the officers were caught issuing certificates of fitness to non-roadworthy vehicles and provisional driver’s licences…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has thrown out an application for refusal of further remand lodged by University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura charged with corruptly awarding a PhD to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Nyagura made the application before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba stating that he had been on remand for an unreasonably…
HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has threatened to demonstrate against an alleged plot by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Zanu PF and opposition leader Thokozani Khupe to rig the forthcoming elections. Addressing party supporters in Kadoma on Sunday, Chamisa claimed there was an unholy alliance of his rivals including President Emmerson Mnangagwa…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced yesterday that it will exclude pictures of voters from the voters’ roll after the national elections management body received unspecified threats from aggrieved political parties at the weekend. This comes as Zec chairperson and High Court judge Priscilla Chigumba was subjected to abuse and vitriol by opposition…
HARARE – Security for President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his first meeting following the Bulawayo bomb blast which he described as an attempt on his life by “my usual enemies” was ultra-tight at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) yesterday, with layers of protection surrounding the venue. Unprecedented security procedures were instituted at the HICC where…
BULAWAYO – Alliance for National Salvation (Ansa) president Moses Mzila-Ndlovu has sensationally claimed that a lot of those in the opposition are Zanu PF surrogates whose agenda is to perpetuate the ruling party’s stay in power. With over 100 political parties and 23 presidential candidates registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for the July…
