HARARE – Tertiary students — represented by the Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) — have vowed to confront President Robert Mugabe over their deplorable welfare at the Zanu PF interface rally to be held in the capital next week. If denied to speak at the event, Zinasu said they will petition the 93-year-old leader, and…
HARARE – Three daring sex workers, who robbed a man at gunpoint before taking nude photos of him and using them to blackmail him into releasing his bank passwords, have run into trouble with the law. Chipo Nyamande, Moleen Maodzwa and Chipo Dube’s adventure saw them go on a shopping spree, splashing $1 667 of…
MUTARE – Twenty one foreign nationals and prominent local rights activist Farai Maguwu were yesterday spared jail by a Mutare magistrate who fined them for trespassing following their arrest on Friday for holding commemorations of illegal miners killed a decade ago during the country’s diamond rush in Manicaland. Police, in a combined operation with Immigration…
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 – 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 – Former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa is now holed up in China after fleeing his home country within hours of being given the boot by his long-time ally, President Robert Mugabe. The Daily News can report that the 75-year-old politician, who was once tipped to succeed the incumbent, arrived in China on Thursday night…
HARARE – Former Industry minister Nkosana Moyo, who is the leader of Alliance for Peoples’ Agenda (APA), has said his party will not hold rallies, an approach totally different from the political tradition in Zimbabwe. He also barred his party supporters from wearing branded T-shirts and other regalia, arguing it attracts violence and is exclusionary….
HARARE – Opposition parties have reacted angrily to the renaming of Harare International Airport by government this week which honoured President Robert Mugabe by naming the airport after him in a process which gobbled $500 000. Mugabe is not the only leader in the world who has had an airport named after him. However, opposition…
HARARE – An American citizen, Martha O’Donovan, who was arrested for allegedly attempting to topple President Robert Mugabe’s government has been released on $1 000 bail by the High Court. High Court judge Clement Phiri yesterday ruled that it was in the best interest of justice to release O’Donovan on bail after ruling that his…
