HARARE – Three men have been arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts after they allegedly grabbed a Chinese-owned company, thereby potentially prejudicing the owner of $4,2 million. Washington Frera, 38, Vincent Tom Barris, 57 and Norman Ngoshi, 42, appeared before magistrate Tilda Mazhande last Friday, where they were each freed on $100 bail. According to…
HARARE – A Chitungwiza woman was last week left dejected after her bid to claim maintenance arrears using forged documents hit a brickwall. Brenda Bulangwe dragged her ex-husband Tonderai Rimaunga to court on allegations of Contravening Section 23 (1) of the Maintenance Act Chapter 5:9, failure to pay maintenance. This was after she had acquired…
BULAWAYO – Former MDC chairperson Lovemore Moyo has accused the party’s late leader Morgan Tsvangirai as the culprit being behind the latest split in the main opposition. This comes after the party’s supreme decision-making body in between congresses, the national council met last Friday and resolved to fire long-serving vice president Thokozani Khupe, national spokesperson…
HARARE – Government is contemplating installing chiefs in resettlement areas thereby increasing the number of traditional leaders, Local Government minister July Moyo has revealed. Moyo told Senators on Thursday that the people living in resettlement areas should now be under a chief or traditional leader. “We have realised that to those chieftainships who have been…
HARARE – As the country hurtles towards the watershed 2018 elections, with less than four months to go, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has attacked Zanu PF for failing to fulfil promises it made to the electorate in the run up to the 2013 election. While Zanu PF seeks to extend its 38-year…
HARARE – In a new twist, members of the commission set up to run the affairs at the Chitungwiza Town Council have now been employed by the local authority the Daily News has learnt. According to sources at the local authority, two members of the Madzudzo Pawadyira-led commission are now district managers at the municipality….
HARARE – The negligence of Health and Child Care minister, David Parirenyatwa, in addressing the concerns of the country’s striking medical doctors and his recent utterances appear to have worsened the crisis, with doctors insisting they are not ready to return to hospital wards until their grievances are addressed in full. The doctors said they…
HARARE – The country’s two major political parties, Zanu PF and the MDC – which both find themselves fielding new presidential faces in this year’s harmonised elections – are ramping up their preparations for the impending polls. This comes as a leading political analyst, Ibbo Mandaza, has predicted a victory for new opposition leader Nelson…
HARARE – So bad has the financial and operational rot ravaging Air Zimbabwe become, that the flag carrier can now barely manage to ferry its domestic and international passengers — who are increasingly enduring horrendous flight cancellations and reschedulings. And although Air Zim’s fleet supposedly comprises 10 “active” aircraft — two Boeing 767s, three 737s,…
HARARE – So bad has the financial and operational rot ravaging Air Zimbabwe become, that the flag carrier can now barely manage to ferry its domestic and international passengers — who are increasingly enduring horrendous flight cancellations and reschedulings. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
