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HARARE – Government has decided to shut down loss-making parastatals and State enterprises, President Robert Mugabe said yesterday. Mugabe made the announcement yesterday while addressing a high level interface meeting with industrialists at his official residence in Harare yesterday. He said the decision was made in Cabinet during its traditional weekly meeting. “We certainly share…

HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s survival in the ruling Zanu PF party is now solely at the benevolence of President Robert Mugabe after the political careers of some of his ardent sympathisers were shipwrecked by his rivals on Wednesday, the Daily News can report. For the umpteenth time since the vice president was put…

HARARE – The discord between Zanu PF and the MDC over the controversial passage of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill Number 1 (No.1) took a new twist yesterday with two Members of Parliament from the opposition party approaching the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) seeking to have the Bill set aside. The Daily News reported yesterday…

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is working towards holding the 2018 polls between June and August although the elections management body was quick to point out that ultimately that decision lies with the President, the Daily News can report. Zec has waded into the poll-date debate as the officialdom in the ruling Zanu…

HARARE – Lliutenant-colonel Ranagarirai Kembo — who is answering to charges of raping his 19-year-old maid — opened his defence case yesterday and claimed his neighbours had influenced the woman to fabricate charges against him. Kembo appeared before Harare magistrate Noel Mupeiwa and claimed he was away on a business trip on the day in…

HARARE – A cop based at Southerton Traffic Section reportedly collected $2 bribes in return for free passage of kombis. Andrew Kapirima, 24, is answering to criminal abuse of office charges before Harare magistrate Gideon Ruvetsa. He is represented by Tatenda Muvhami and filed an application for exception to the charge. “The accused person is…

MUTARE – Outspoken Zanu PF chairperson for Manicaland province Mubuso Chinguno and his colleagues in the former liberation movement’s arm, have threatened to invade farms they claim are underutilised by the party’s bigwigs. The youth league also warned that it would launch a final blitz on the remaining white farmers in the province — in…

HARARE – A Bulawayo-based businessman was hauled before the courts yesterday after he allegedly externalised $1,2 million to Botswana without the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s (RBZ) authority. Farid Shadat, 45, of Baxendale Road in Khumalo in Bulawayo appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande charged with contravening section 5(1) (a) (ii) of the Exchange Control Act…

HARARE – A 19-member Gambian team is on a study tour of Zimbabwe’s famed World Bank supported results-based financing (RBF) for rural clinics. The Gambian team consists of permanent secretaries, health directors, evaluators and information specialists. They are studying the programme — which has helped to significantly improve maternal and child health care outcomes in…

HARARE – Wellcash Debt Collectors is giving Harare debtors 48 hours to pay their Harare City Council (HCC) debts or face losing their property. HCC re-hired the debt collectors after their contract had been terminated amid howls of protests by residents. “We notify you of our intention to proceed to the courts of civil justice…