HARARE – Three Zvishavane men were jailed for 10 years each last week after being convicted of stealing State-owned telephone firm TelOne’s copper cables. Musavengana Nkululeko, Sifelani Ndiweni and Munyaradzi Gava were found in possession of 122kg of burnt copper at a roadblock in Gweru aboard an InterAfrica bus and were immediately arrested. They were…
BULAWAYO – Generally you are supposed to be lonely when you are dead — but the late national heroes John Nkomo and Sikhanyiso Ndlovu are yet to find rest as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is trying frantically to recover a combined $552 owed to them by government — for mobile toilets hired out during…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s newest airline, Rainbow, has grounded its plane due to a scarcity of foreign currency and a deadly boardroom squabble. A Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency priority list has made it difficult to get the US dollars needed to buy jet fuel, almost all of which is imported, creating periodic fuel shortages…
HARARE – A fire has gutted a Bata shop at Govans Cornmarket at Bepswa Arcade in Norton. Fire services were called to the fire on Sunday to find the building well ablaze. Fire trucks battled to put the fire out. Officials were yet to establish what caused the inferno. Property owner Doctor Bepswa declined to…
HARARE – War veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa has accused of Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi of masquerading as a medical doctor. This comes after first lady Grace Mugabe claimed at a Bindura rally last weekend that President Robert Mugabe summoned the Swedish-trained medical doctor because he felt he was on his deathbed after falling sick from…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe received a rare round of applause from all legislators during the State Opening of Parliament yesterday after he sharply rebuked ministers for their frequent absence from Parliament sessions. This comes as it has become a trait of the Fourth Parliament that rogue ministers dodge accountability by absenting themselves when they…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Commissions (Zec) is on a collision course with President Robert Mugabe after he unilaterally proclaimed voter registration dates at a time the electoral body is apparently ill-prepared for such a mammoth exercise, the Daily News can report. Giving notice in the Government Gazette published on Friday, Mugabe said voter registration…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Rugare Gumbo made a surprise appearance at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday, amid accusations that he swindled an agricultural equipment dealer $27 000 through a botched sale of a combined harvester. The frail looking veteran nationalist, aged 76, arrived at the magistrates courts early yesterday morning in the company of…
HARARE – As we have noted before, and as American Senator Hiram Warren Johnson so correctly observed a 100 years ago, the first casualty of war is truth. This wise saying is sadly being proven to be true in perennially crisis-ridden Zimbabwe, where well-known vendors of disgusting falsehoods in Zanu PF and their hired assassins…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai is holding a rally next month marking the 18th anniversary of the establishment of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). “Our 18th anniversary celebrations will be held at Mbizo Stadium in Kwekwe on Saturday, October 7, 2017. The theme of our anniversary celebrations is MDC @18: Converging for the People’s Imminent…
