HARARE – The MDC has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay back $286 000, advanced to it by a local firm in 2016. According to court papers, sometime in 2016, the MDC borrowed $331 800 from Ishline Investments (Private) Limited) and undertook to repay the debt that same year. But having…
BULAWAYO – The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) offices in Bulawayo are currently being manned by police officers as lack of resources continue to hamper the operations of the anti-graft body. This, however according to observers, is likely to erode the confidence of the anti-graft body as they felt the move was tantamount to turning the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is working round the clock to cleanse the voters’ roll of any ghost voters. As part of efforts to keep a clean voters’ roll, Zec has asked the Registrar General (RG)’s office to submit to the elections management body a list of dead people every month. “If the…
HARARE – MDC Youth Assembly vice president Shakespeare Mukoyi said he will not testify against party leader, Nelson Chamisa, in his battle against Thokozani Khupe for the control of the country’s biggest opposition party. Mukoyi told the Daily News yesterday that Khupe’s camp was lost to think he can turn against Chamisa in their bruising…
HARARE – ZANU PF is losing sleep over threats by some of its members to vote for the opposition in the forthcoming elections. This follows contested primary elections that have left the ruling party on the edge. Speaking on the first day of a healing and reconciliation workshop in Harare, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured,…
HARARE – The anti-corruption crusade rolled out by President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he assumed the top office late last year is losing steam as the mighty and powerful are finding ways of escaping the long arm of the law, the Daily News can report. In his first few months in office, Mnangagwa lived up to…
HARARE – Ousted former president Robert Mugabe risks going to jail for continuing to ignore directives by Parliament to give evidence on the disappearance of $15 billion diamond revenue, with the august body yesterday issuing him with a final ultimatum failure of which he will face the consequences. [Adz]
HARARE – South African businessman Dharmesh Nagar is reportedly embroiled in a “hacking and forgery storm” after accessing Patience Chivasa’s e-mail in a bid to fabricate fraud charges against the Harare businesswoman. According to information at hand, the two entered into a Zanu PF party-regalia supply deal and after which confirmation orders were issued, and…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and National People’s Party (NPP) president Joice Mujuru are moving towards joining forces in order to fight President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF party as a cohesive unit at the forthcoming general elections in July. NPP spokesperson Jefferson Chitando confirmed the talks, saying these have reached an advanced stage. “Since…
HARARE – Businessman Billy Rautenberg’s Green Fuel (Private) Limited came under the spotlight yesterday, with members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy questioning its pricing model. It emerged yesterday, that Green Fuel is selling its ethanol at $1, 10 and yet the same product is being bought for $0,88s from its competitor,…
