HARARE – Former minister of State Security Didymus Mutasa has turned down an invitation to join the newly-formed National Patriotic Front (NPF), saying it is nothing but a tribal party doing the bidding for deposed ex-president, Robert Mugabe. A former close ally of Mugabe, the country’s first black Speaker of Parliament told the Daily News…
HARARE – A state-sanctioned investigation into a massive ivory and rhino horn trafficking scandal that prejudiced the foreign currency-starved nation of millions of United States dollars has sucked in former first lady Grace Mugabe. Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri sensationally claimed in an interview with the Daily News yesterday that Grace would occasionally…
HARARE – A State-sanctioned investigation into a massive ivory and rhino horn trafficking scandal that prejudiced the foreign currency-starved nation of millions of United States dollars has sucked in former first lady Grace Mugabe. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – Mt Pleasant Clinic reopened yesterday after undergoing renovations. Located in ward 17, the facility is poised to offer enhanced services that include a wellness clinic, prostate and cervical cancer screening and many other services. The overhaul will make a major impact on the lives of the community, especially for individuals who require low-cost…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa joins African leaders today in Rwanda where they are set to launch the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) — the biggest free trade agreement since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Mnangagwa was reportedly congratulated by Nigeria’s influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo for a “peaceful political transition”…
HARARE – High Court judge Nyaradzo Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa yesterday allowed an application by Paul Upenyu Esau Chidawanyika to join proceedings in which businessman Jayesh Shah’s company Al Shams Global has approached the High Court seeking to quash a court ruling forcing him to surrender to Equity Properties (Pvt) Ltd, title deeds to land earmarked for…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday reserved ruling in a legal challenge to the Political Parties Finance Act lodged by small political parties, Zimbabwe Development Party and Voice of the People Party. Leading the full Con-Court bench of nine judges, Chief Justice Luke Malaba will rule on an unspecified date on the fringe parties’…
HARARE – OVER 700 pupils from two schools in the semi-arid area of Chivi benefited from a relief exercise hosted by Tzu Chi Foundation on Friday. Tzu Chi Foundation was founded in 1966 by a 30-year-old female monk called Dharma Master Cheng Yen. Tzu Chi Foundation handed over beds, blankets, stationery, bags, rice and supplies….
HARARE – While eccentric Zanu PF legislator Joseph Chinotimba was recently appointed Zimbabwe’s ambassador of happiness, ironically, Zimbabweans are an unhappy lot, a latest survey has revealed. The country — whose citizens have borne the pain of lurching from one economic crisis to another over the past decade — has been ranked 144 out of…
HARARE – An Epworth man was caged 10 years yesterday after being busted digging up underground telecommunication cables. George Muganda, 42, pleaded guilty to contravening section 89 (4) (b) of the Postal and Telecommunications Act which prohibits wilful damage, interference, or theft of telecommunication lines and apparatus. Harare magistrate Josephine Sande considered that Muganda was…
