HARARE – With Zimbabweans already in an election mode ahead of crunch polls next year, the coming together of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his former allies, who had broken ranks with him under various circumstances, had brought hope to long-suffering citizens that at long last change was coming their way. Amid incessant calls for…
HARARE – Poultry producers have slammed government over the Avian Influenza crisis, accusing it of not taking decisive action in curbing the deadly highly pathogenic virus which has decimated the country’s poultry population. The producers, who are importing hatching eggs at a steep 40 percent duty, said government must formulate policies to protect the threatened…
HARARE – Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro’s lawyers have written to the High Court registrar demanding a ruling in an urgent chamber application filed by Home affairs minister Ignatius Chombo seeking to block his arrest on contempt of court charges. Mangwiro is battling to recover $1,5 million and a further $78 900 confiscated from him…
HARARE – The declaration of President Robert Mugabe’s birthday as a holiday is yet to be formalised, with the latest Government Gazette not recognising it among 2018’s national holidays calendar. Last month, Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo, also the ruling Zanu PF’s secretary for administration, announced the declaration of 93-year-old Mugabe’s birthday — 21st February…
HARARE – Government is going after borehole and water wells owners who are defaulting on payments of levies for ground water extraction. According to the Water Act, all ground water is owned by government, and whoever extracts it is liable to pay borehole levies and fees. This comes as many desperate urban residents have resorted…
BULAWAYO – MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe and her allies boycotted party leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s rally yesterday, in yet another move fuelling speculation that the country’s largest opposition party could be headed for another split. Tsvangirai was headlining an MDC Alliance rally where the union of seven opposition parties was being officially launched to supporters…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tightened his security following suspicions that his rivals could be out to eliminate him physically in the wake of his alleged poisoning about three weeks ago, the Daily News can report. A long time aide of President Robert Mugabe, Mnangagwa was allegedly poisoned mid last month at a…
HARARE – Cabinet ministers Sydney Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatwa have written to Energy Mutodi signalling their intention to sue the controversial businessman for sensationally claiming that they were behind the alleged poisoning of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Daily News can report. Mutodi claimed on his Facebook wall last week that Defence minister Sekeramayi and…
HARARE – War veterans’ leader, Victor Matemadanda, who is being charged with undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe after he reportedly addressed a presser and attacked the first lady, has challenged his placement on remand. He was represented by Beatrice Mtetwa when he appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande yesterday. Matemadanda is being charged…
HARARE – A former British soldier who was busted with an assortment of machinery used to make cocaine capsules and other dangerous drugs is demanding his immediate release, arguing the State unlawfully dragged him before the courts. James Francis Joscelyne, who was raided at his upmarket Glen Lorne residence, was represented by advocate Sylvester Hashiti…
