HARARE – MDC structures have declined Morgan Tsvangirai’s plan to step down as party leader, insisting he must run for 2018 elections. The two major wings of the country’s biggest opposition party, the Women’s Assembly and the Youth Assembly, yesterday said they reject attempts by Tsvangirai, who is battling cancer of the colon, to bow…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe will be called in to testify in a high-profile case in which former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi is facing corruption charges, the Daily News can report. Mzembi’s legal team is making a court application to subpoena the 93-year-old former head of State to give evidence along with his former…
HARARE – Deaths from malaria in Zimbabwe last year outstripped 2016 figures amid indications that the number of people succumbing to the old age disease is still high. Zimbabwe recorded 518 deaths from malaria in 2017, compared with 231 for the whole of 2016 and 462 the previous year, the ministry of Health and Child…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday hinted of his imminent retirement from active politics after leading the country’s largest opposition party for nearly two decades. In a New Year’s message released to the nation yesterday, the 65-year-old politician, who is battling cancer of the colon, implied he was on the verge of handing over…
HARARE – A HARARE woman who sought two different birth certificates for her daughter before claiming maintenance from two fathers was yesterday slapped with a 30-day prison term for breaching the Births Registration Act. Stella Kwanisai, 31, was convicted of wilfully giving false information for purposes of registration of birth of a child before Harare…
HARARE – A HARARE magistrate has postponed to tomorrow a ruling on an application by former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo to have his bail conditions relaxed to allow him to attend to his farm in Mashonaland West. Although prosecutor Edmore Nyazamba had not objected to Chombo’s application, magistrate Josephine Sande instructed the State to put…
HARARE – Convicted Chitungwiza mayor Philip Mutoti is challenging his 280 hours of community service sentence, arguing that the verdict was political. A Chitungwiza court last Friday ruled that Mutoti criminally abused his office as mayor. Mutoti was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Chitungwiza magistrate Francis Mapfumo. [GoogleAd] Four months of the sentence…
HARARE – Zanu PF Women’s League has made a ”non-negotiable” demand of 50 percent share of the ruling party’s political power. According to the ruling party’s central committee report presented to the 2017 special extraordinary congress, the women’s league said females still don’t have enough representation in leadership positions and that impacts how decisions are…
HARARE – Joice Mujuru’s National People’s Party (NPP) has hit the campaign trail, fronting the People’s Rainbow Coalition (PRC) ahead of this year’s key general election. Mujuru’s spokesperson and NPP’s secretary-general Gift Nyandoro told the Daily News that so far, the party has held mobilisation meetings in Mt Darwin, Mashonaland West and Masvingo, campaigning for…
HARARE – Lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe have raised a red flag, claiming the institution is being run by a cartel which is prejudicing the institution of millions of dollars. In a December 2017 report to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the lecturers want a comprehensive forensic audit to be instituted amid claims that…
