HARARE – Former ministers Walter Mzembi and Samuel Undenge — facing charges of criminal abuse of office — appeared in court yesterday and were further remanded to February 27. Mzembi and Undenge were represented by Job Sikhala and Alec Muchadehama, respectively. They appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa. Sikhala notified the court that he would…
HARARE – A vendor representative union yesterday vowed informal traders would defy a decree to leave street pavements across Zimbabwe’s towns and cities until municipalities build alternative vending sites, defying an edict to forcibly remove them with the military’s help and setting up deadly potential clashes. Local Government minister July Moyo issued the directive last…
HARARE – Petina Gappah, the Zimbabwean international law expert who has courted controversy after being hired to organise President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s participation at the on-going World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has denied swirling social media claims that she has joined the Zanu PF administration. Gappah — a trenchant critic of the ruling party…
HARARE – Claims by former president Robert Mugabe that the country lost $15 billion worth of diamond revenue were divorced from the actual facts on the ground, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told the National Assembly last week. Mugabe torched a storm when he claimed in a televised interview ahead of his 93rd birthday last year…
HARARE – Zimbabwe could witness a nationwide power failure as Zesa Holdings (Zesa) workers have threatened to embark on an industrial strike action demanding payment of outstanding salaries from the technically insolvent power utility. The workers are understood to be demanding a 50 percent salary increment while also demanding payment of the $100 million they…
HARARE – Acting MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday took a swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s efforts to fight corruption saying the law is being selectively applied. Chamisa was speaking at a rally in Epworth to launch the MDC Alliance campaign where he received a rousing welcome from scores of supporters as he took to…
HARARE – The dreaded axe is seen shifting to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) where some of the senior officers are at risk of either being retired, sacked or reassigned. Highly-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the changes in the feared spy agency were meant to strengthen President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hand by surrounding…
HARARE – A rather depressing but very important case that must rudely awaken slumbering authorities to the need for judicial reformation is currently playing out at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. A woman struggling to fend for her family finds herself crossing sword in the courts with a deregistered lawyer who purported to represent her against…
HARARE – Pronouncement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that international observers are free to observe this year’s harmonised elections have been applauded by election and human rights watchdogs. Election Resource Centre director Tawanda Chimhini said while the willingness by Mnangagwa to allow observers to watch the 2018 elections was welcome, such an invitation should be accompanied…
HARARE – Election watchdog, the Election Resource Centre (ERC), has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to set clear timelines for the implementation of electoral reforms if at all he is sincere about holding free and fair elections. Mnangagwa has repeatedly said his government would hold free and fair elections but is yet to put…
