HARARE – Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo who is currently out on stringent bail conditions over a slew of charges was back at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday on fresh allegations of contravening the Prevention of Corruption Act and bribery. The ex-Zanu PF secretary for administration allegedly demanded a $300 000 bribe from property mogul,…
HARARE – Government will name and shame individuals and corporates that externalised hard currency if they do not take advantage of the three-month window during which they must return the loot. On November 28, President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened a three-month amnesty for the return of public funds illegally stashed abroad by individuals and companies. He…
HARARE – In spite of the softening rates on the parallel market, prices have shot through the roof in the past few weeks with most basic products now beyond the reach of many. A snap survey by the Daily News revealed that prices of basic commodities have gone up by between two and 125 percent…
HARARE – Evicted Zimbabwean white farmers that settled in Zambia have said they are willing to return home to help turn the country’s agricultural economy around under President Emerson Mnangagwa’s government. It is mainly the evicted white Zimbabwean farmers’ innovations that have transformed small-scale growers in their newly-adopted neighbouring country into productive farmers, upping their…
HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has said it will soon be decentralising the High Court to other parts of the country in a bid to provide efficient service delivery to members of the public. Speaking to journalists yesterday after the appointment of eight High Court judges, judge president George Chiweshe said they will…
HARARE – Typhoid has continued to break out in Harare, the Health and Child Care ministry said in a notice, warning of further disease outbreaks unless sanitation is restored in the capital currently under appalling conditions. At least 646 cases of typhoid were confirmed by the ministry, and its epicentre is Mbare. The first case…
HARARE – The number of foreign tourists visiting Zimbabwe are projected to jump by around 10 percent on the back of the recent political transition, the Zimbabwe Council for Tourism (ZCT) has said, putting the country firmly on track for another record year for tourism. “The previous year (2016) our target was 2,1 million tourists…
MUTARE – Biriiri High School has been hit by claims of Satanism which forced government to dispatch senior environmental officials and doctors to investigate the claims. More than 20 students were taken ill but United Baptist Church (UBC) dismissed Satanism claims saying the affected girls suffered a virus which had hit the school. UBC secretary…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has begun using municipal police in plain clothes as it steps up the crackdown on illegal informal trading in the city centre. Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni said the idea for municipal police to use civilian clothes was for their own protection. HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme said the city has…
MUTARE – Tour operators in Chimanimani have engaged lawyers to force Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to release a report on investigations into illegal gold mining activities in Chimanimani Mountains. The gold mining activities are allegedly being supervised by senior ZimParks rangers. The tour operators who forced the investigations are worried that ZimParks…
