HARARE – Economists have warned that the newly-commissioned Kazungula rail road bridge between Zambia and Botswana spells economic doom for Zimbabwe as it would divert business from the country. The bridge bypasses Zimbabwe, meaning trucks from South Africa can now cross via Mafikeng to Botswana and straight to Kazungula, thereby bypassing Zimbabwe. If this alternative…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s neck tie was yesterday auctioned for a staggering $15 000 at the on-going CEOs Africa Round Table (Cart) conference in Victoria Falls. After letting go of the tie, which he came putting on from Harare, Mnangagwa was offered an American flag designed replacement, which he put on immediately. In the…
HARARE – The appointment of Utoile Silaigwana as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) acting chief elections officer has been described as another unfortunate incident which continues to put into doubt the credibility of Zec through acts of brazen militarisation. Zec appointed Silaigwana as the acting chief elections officer while the hunt for a substantive office…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has redeployed close to 30 senior police officers as the law enforcement agency continues to reshuffle personnel in the hope of reinventing itself. The Daily News can report that a few assistant commissioners (Asst Comms) were spared by the latest redeployments. Asst Comm Margret Ngwenya-Gono is being moved…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe has filed an urgent chamber application in the High Court in a bid to reclaim Smithfield Farm situated in Mazowe, the Daily News can report. The 94-year-old despot, who claims ownership of the sprawling farmland through his Gushungo Holdings (Private) Limited, was ordered off the property in January this…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe has spoken out for the first time since his exit, describing his dramatic ouster last November as a “coup d’etat” engineered by ally-turned-foe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa – with the help of the military. In an interview with South Africa’s SABC yesterday, Mugabe confirmed recent reports by the Daily News…
HARARE – A Harare woman was busted secretly operating a brothel that recruited young girls from the age of 12 at a rented cabin at the Roman Catholic Church in Eastview’s Phase 1. Vimbai Fungisai, 22, appeared in court jointly charged with Tendai Masiya, 45, who was offered one of the girls for his sexual…
HARARE – Zanu PF has set tough conditions for the selection of the party’s candidates ahead of this year’s crunch elections, with the politburo set to have the final say on who will stand or not on the ruling party’s ticket. Briefing journalists at the party’s headquarters yesterday after an extraordinary politburo meeting, Zanu PF…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday reserved ruling in a legal challenge to government’s decision to bar expatriate Zimbabweans from voting from their foreign bases in the forthcoming key 2018 vote. Leading the full Con-Court bench of nine judges, Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza reserved ruling in the matter after hearing arguments from lawyers who represented…
MUTARE – ARDA Transau — a State-owned farm-turned-residential area for people displaced by mining activities in the rich Chiadzwa diamond fields, where the country’s political elite and securocrats are accused of minting billions — has been an embarrassing paradox, a paragon of poverty. After almost a decade of sinking further and further into poverty, dozens…
