HARARE – A total 1 240 459 voters were registered during the first phase of the biometric voter registration (BVR) exercise launched on October 10 and completed on October 25, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said. During the exercise, a total 28 515 potential registrants were turned away due to various reasons which included production…
HARARE – Disgruntled vendors, touts and foreign currency dealers in Harare yesterday gave President Robert Mugabe a two-week ultimatum to stop the police from harassing and confiscating their wares. About a fortnight ago, Mugabe ordered authorities to flush out vendors and other informal traders that have stormed the Harare CBD, arguing the capital had become…
HARARE – A Harare man was dragged to court yesterday for allegedly leaking this year’s Ordinary Level English exam paper, which was written on October 26. Victor Tamanikwa, 25, appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande charged with contravening section 35(a) of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Act, which prohibits gaining access or revealing contents…
HARARE – Musician Jah Prayzah was beaten up by angry mourners at the burial of his former security manager Chris Nyemba at Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare yesterday for allegedly failing to contribute towards the deceased’s funeral. Sources who were at the burial told the Daily News the singer was battered by angry bouncers who…
HARARE – The rot at Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been exposed in a court application in which the national broadcaster’s board is seeking nullification of hefty pay rises effected by the company’s management. The board of directors is challenging the salary increments management awarded themselves and the workers during the tenure of now sacked…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has approached the High Court seeking to block the attachment of its property by a clearing agent that claims to have paid $73 000 tax to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) on behalf of the State-owned military outfit. ZDI filed an urgent chamber application for stay of execution…
HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will meet tomorrow to, among other things, ponder on the process to follow in appointing a new Prosecutor-General (PG). This follows President Robert Mugabe’s decision to rescind the confirmation of newly-appointed PG, Ray Goba, less than two months into his job. JSC secretary Rita Makarau told the Daily…
HARARE – Hard-pressed Zimbabwean consumers are in the throes of skyrocketing grocery bills that are likely to deprive them of the joys of Christmas, with unofficial inflation figures showing that food prices have gone up by between 20 to 100 percent in the past month, the Daily News can report. The price spikes are wreaking…
HARARE – Chief Fortune Charumbira, the president of the Chiefs’ Council, has called upon chiefs to campaign for President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party to ensure he wins the forthcoming election. Charumbira told the official opening of the 2017 edition of the National Annual Conference of chiefs held in Bulawayo on Saturday that…
HARARE – In an unprecedented move, President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF held an extraordinary politburo meeting at the State House — fooling a number of journalists and officials from the Information ministry in the process — who waited in vain at the party’s headquarters where such meetings are usually held. In a notice to…
