HARARE – Former minister in the then vice president Joice Mujuru’s office, Flora Buka has been dragged to the High Court after failing to pay $87 000 owed to Paperhole Investments (Private) Limited. According to court papers, Buka signed an acknowledgement of debt, which has become the basis for the court application. “Plaintiff’s claim against…
HARARE – Armed supporters of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party allegedly beat up opposition leader Joice Mujuru and her National People’s Party (NPP) supporters at a rally in Harare yesterday where she was due to speak, her NPP has claimed. The alleged Zanu PF youths disrupted the opposition party’s rally in Harare’s high…
HARARE – The first of several planned two-day water shutdowns over the next few weeks in the capital city, Harare, will start today. Harare City Council (HCC) has assured residents that the city is ready for the shutdown. Harare will shut down production of potable water at the Morton Jaffray and Warren Control treatment plants…
HARARE – A self-confessed hit man who testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi appeared in court yesterday. Munyaradzi Mupazviripo had claimed in a police report lodged at Borrowdale Police Station that Tourism and Hospitality Industry permanent secretary Bradah…
HARARE – Investigating officers at the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) are pushing for the ouster of the organisation’s secretary, Silence Pondo, claiming his appointment was not above board. The officers once wrote to the deputy chief secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Ray Ndlukula way back in January 2016, demanding Pondo’s departure….
HARARE – Zimbabwe was one of the worst-ranked countries in an annual World Justice Project (WJP) rule of law index list released yesterday. The southern African country ranked 108 out of 113 countries in all categories of constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice,…
The SABC’s Foreign Editor Sophie Mokoena speaks to Jonathan Moyo, the former Higher Education minister under former president Robert Mugabe. Moyo fled the country during the military-backed takeover by now President Emmerson Mnangagwa in November 2017. Moyo has re-iterated his views that the new administration is the product of a coup and that Sadc and…
HARARE – A Mutare businessman seeking the return of his $1,5 million confiscated by the police in 2008 following his arrest on theft charges, has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in the long-running case. Tendai Blessing Mangwiro, who was acquitted in 2012, has been in and out of the courts in his quest to…
HARARE – New police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga has ordered Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Ephrain Nhamo, who illegally occupied businessman Chris Takura Tande’s Carig Crag estate, to vacate the land immediately in what has been hailed as a sign of the new president’s drift towards upholding the rule of law. Tande — the managing director…
HARARE – The Daily News can report that senior secret service operatives who were put on one-year renewable contracts after reaching their retirement age have now been released from the CIO. Reports also suggest that there are some senior officers whose employment contracts were terminated as well even though they were still to reach retirement…
