HARARE – The tribunal set up to investigate Harare City Council (HCC) executives’ remuneration has finalised the probe and will soon table a report, Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has said. In an interview with the Daily News recently, Manyenyeni said the process had been delayed because the final executive payroll was presented late, as the executives…
HARARE – Leader of the newly-formed coalition — People’s Rainbow Alliance (PRA) — Joice Mujuru has insisted they will only join forces with the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC Alliance after it adopts a neutral name, among other conditions. Mujuru, who also leads the opposition National People’s Party (NPP), argues that the name MDC Alliance is derived…
HARARE – Government has directed police to arrest Zanu PF activists who use the ruling party’s materials — including pictures of President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace — to intimidate law enforcement officials and avoid being sanctioned for traffic law violations. There has been a growing trend of party activists who do not only…
HARARE – The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) has been dragged to the High Court after it reportedly failed to pay $45 000 to a company it contracted to print T-shirts in August 2015. Fortune Investments (Private) Limited filed the summons after the church reportedly refused to pay the amount. “On or about August 15, 2015,…
HARARE – Analysts have warned that President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF cannot afford to have wholesale purges to former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s allies saying doing so would be akin to scoring an own goal, especially when elections are looming large on the horizon. This comes as the Zanu PF National Disciplinary Committee (NDC)…
HARARE – The jury is out on the recent move by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to temporarily ban all police officers from registering to vote in next year’s crunch elections — which could see thousands of police officers failing to cast their ballots in the watershed 2018 polls. This comes as the national elections…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, who was facing allegations of setting up parallel structures to dethrone President Robert Mugabe, is now technically off the hook following the dismissal of former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa. Kasukuwere’s case had been referred to the ruling party’s presidium for determination, but ever since it was…
HARARE – Medical practitioners are supplying the black market with pethidine — a post-surgery painkiller — resulting in artificial shortages of the drug, a health expert has claimed. Psychiatric expert Munyaradzi Madhombiro told the Daily News on Sunday that the drug is being used as an illicit intoxicant by addicts. His revelations come as Zimbabwe…
HARARE – With just a month and a few days remaining before the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise for 2018 elections closes, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seems far from reaching its target to register seven million voters. On the other hand, the exercise has been marred by challenges, with electoral observer groups noting intimidation…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party is already manipulating the environment ahead of next year’s elections by buying the support of traditional chiefs and intimidating registrants through claims that their vote will be known under the new biometric voter registration (BVR) system, analysts have said. Zanu PF, which has been in power since the…
