HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe stands a good chance of becoming one of the country’s vice presidents in the event that Zanu PF succeeds in introducing a quota system in its presidium by amending the party’s constitution at an extraordinary congress set for December. The Daily News heard this week that Grace, who burst…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe stands a good chance of becoming one of the country’s vice presidents in the event that Zanu PF succeeds in introducing a quota system in its presidium by amending the party’s constitution at an extraordinary congress set for December. The Daily News heard this week that Grace, who burst…
HARARE – Angry legislators across the political divide yesterday forced the early adjournment of the National Assembly as they demanded their outstanding allowances and Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Efforts by the deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Mable Chinomona to calm down the furious MPs were fruitless as her voice was drowned by uproarious heckling…
HARARE – Despite official claims that the 2016/17 farming season achieved a bumper harvest owing to the Command Agriculture initiative, government is clandestinely importing the staple grain from neighbouring countries. Ironically, the grain imports violate a ban imposed by the same government in June this year. This came to light in a case before the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said prisons and mental hospitals have become extremely dangerous facilities operating in a perpetual state of crisis, where prisoners live in barbaric and horrific conditions and their basic human rights are violated daily. In its latest annual report for the year 2016 which was tabled in…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings’ (ZBH) chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere has been dragged to the High Court by a white farmer, who accuses him of confiscating his farm equipment. In the application, Stodart Brothers (Private) Limited is the applicant, while Muchechetere and a woman only identified as Chanetsa are cited as respondents. According…
HARARE – National police spokesperson Charity Charamba has said she took the insult by a subordinate who called her an idiot personal and felt demeaned. Charamba was testifying in the trial of James Mabasa, 38, who is being charged with contravening the Post and Telecommunications Act by sending offensive messages over the phone and obstructing…
HARARE – Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora has been dragged before the High Court for irregularly withdrawing a Mazowe farmer’s offer letter and handing the farm to an alleged close ally. The said ally, Regis Giya, is said to have approached the farm occupied by the plaintiff – Ronald Chenjerai — sometime in March and advised…
HARARE – Unilever Zimbabwe — through its brands Lifebuoy, Domestos and Sunlight — donated a borehole and refurbished the toilets at Chizungu Primary School in Epworth, as part of 2017 Global Handwashing Day commemorations. The borehole and refurbished school toilets will benefit 2 500 children by improving their sanitation standards through access to water, while…
HARARE – Legislators across the political divide have threatened the sink the 2018 National budget if they don’t get a five-fold increase in their allowances. They said they will hold assent to the two Money Bills that be tabled by Finance minister Ignatius Chombo until their sitting allowance allocation has been increased from the present…
