HARARE – As the clock ticks towards make-or-break elections next year, the governing party is pulling everything out of its bag of tricks, including attempts to destabilise MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s five-year-old marriage to Elizabeth Macheka in the hope of weakening the former trade unionist’s presidential election bid. The Daily News can report that Tsvangirai’s…
PENHALONGA – Government – through its Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) – could relocate more people in Manicaland province to pave way for diamond mining, if it secures claims to the Tsvingwe area. Tsvingwe villagers do not have title deeds to the land. Diamonds were reportedly discovered in Penhalonga – just outside Mutare – in…
HARARE – Water supplies have been cut off at several compounds in Zimbabwe’s capital, as municipal officials tried to force defaulting ratepayers to pay outstanding debt to Harare City Council (HCC). Residents in Mbare, Mufakose, Highfield and Budiriro have been the latest victims of disconnections with some having their water meters completely removed. Community Water…
HARARE – Activist pastor, Evan Mawarire, accused of attempting to subvert the government following a Facebook live post sledging President Robert Mugabe’s “appalling handling” of the economy was freed by the courts yesterday because he had been over detained. Mawarire of #ThisFlag movement was arrested on Sunday on fresh charges of attempting to overthrow the…
HARARE – Zanu PF youths in the second largest city and its hinterland are seething with anger after President Robert Mugabe’s government claimed last year to have made available swathes of land for housing development, which is turning out to be a ruse. The Southern News can report that ever since the land was made…
HARARE – Fly Zimbabwe Airways has started recruiting staff pending its launch. A newspaper advertisement which was published yesterday said Fly Zimbabwe Airways is seeking an unspecified number of flight attendants and cabin crew with minimum requirements of Advanced Level education; although a university degree was more preferable. Other competences include proficiency in spoken and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is experiencing inadequate supplies of cooking oil and price hikes because of inadequate foreign currency allocations to the oil industry by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), the Daily News can report. According to the Oil Expressers Association of Zimbabwe (OEAZ) — a cooking oil industry lobby group which is made up…
HARARE – Thousands of rural teachers across Zimbabwe have threatened to hold a #pocketsoutprotest to demand higher pay and better benefits, the State’s largest rural teachers’ union said. The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) said all rural teachers in all school districts were taking part in the strike, which could force the cancellation…
HARARE – Popular musician and producer Innocent Utsiwegota has been dragged to the High Court after failing to pay back $24 000 that he borrowed from a Tynwald woman in 2012. According to court papers, Utsiwegota borrowed $40 000 from Doren Nerwande. He reportedly paid back $2 000 in December 2015 and a further $3…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said data collected during electronic voter registration will be stored in tamper-proof flash drives before the information is fed into a central data base which is hack-proof. This comes after the opposition has raised fears that there are inadequate security measures to guard against unauthorised access to…
