HARARE – Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba has sensationally claimed that witnesses were being interfered with by accused persons in a bid to jeopardise the State’s case against them. Speaking at the official opening of the anti-corruption courts in Harare on Thursday last week, the PG called on government to tighten legislative frameworks for witness protection…
HARARE – The star witness in the rape trial of televangelist Walter Magaya has questioned Prosecutor-General Ray Goba’s fitness for office after allegedly pushing her to commit perjury by forcing her to testify against the preacher. Petronella Donhodzo Mandaza, who last year claimed she had been sexually abused by the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries…
HARARE – Opinion was starkly divided yesterday over President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s jet-setting, which has made him a visitor in his own country. Mnangagwa has been aggressive in his external engagements, both regional and internationally. While his publicists argue that the visits were meant to re-open doors for the country, shut during former president Robert Mugabe’s…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa opted to hire a luxurious private plane to travel to China, abandoning the struggling national airliner Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), which has a plane of the same size albeit with no similar luxurious trappings. In a cocktail of austerity measures meant to preserve thinning foreign currency — Mnangagwa’s administration announced early…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in China for a seven-day State visit, his 13th foreign trip this year, his frequent travel abroad is stirring an outbreak of mass ridicule with some failing to differentiate him from his predecessor, the Daily News can report. Sworn-in as president on November 24 after 94-year-old Robert Mugabe…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi was sent on forced leave in May 2016 to pave way for investigations into allegations of corruption and poor corporate governance unearthed by a forensic audit instituted by the Auditor-General’s office. Pasi, who resigned in May 2017, sits down with Daily News reporter Farayi Machamire…
HARARE – Mashonaland West Zanu PF secretary for finance Dexter Nduna has warned against “unnecessary” divisions, squabbles, and infiltration in primary elections that could have sweeping implications and hurt the political soul of the party as it barrels toward crucial mid-year elections. While there is widespread optimism about the record number of candidates running in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Easter road death toll has risen to 32, from the 21 fatalities recorded the previous day, police said yesterday. Today is a critical day as many families return home from the long weekend. “Further to 10 deaths recorded as of yesterday (Saturday), 11 people died in eight separate fatal road traffic accidents…
BULAWAYO – Former first lady Grace Mugabe is defying a court order to vacate Smithfield Farm, which she claims has been invaded by artisanal miners who are suspected to be Zanu PF youths, Home Affairs and Culture minister Obert Mpofu said yesterday. Mpofu told a news conference here that police have also established that there…
HARARE – Chances of opposition political parties forming a grand coalition to battle with Zanu PF at the forthcoming polls are narrowing to zero with more and more disjointed alliances emerging each day, the Daily News can report. While opposition leaders concur that the only way to end Zanu PF’s rule is through a combined…
