HARARE – Prominent businessman MacDonald Chapfika is battling to block the sale of his household property that was attached by a law firm over unpaid legal fees. Chapfika, who had his exclusive deal to supply Harare City Council with water treatment chemicals cancelled in 2010 due to overpricing, failed to pay $10 000 owed to…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) risks losing its property as Mbare residents, who successfully sued it after blocked drains caused flooding of their homes, have secured a writ of execution. Speaking to the Daily News this week, the lawyer representing the 43 residents, Allan Moyo, said they were moving to submit the paperwork, then…
MUTARE – Top educationists have slammed Zimbabweans for snubbing polytechnic colleges in preference for universities, only for them to be stuck with degrees but without employment. Mutare Polytechnic College principal Poniso Watema and tertiary education expert Hardson Kwandai said most people underrate polytechnic training institutions because they generally do not award degrees. They argued that…
HARARE – Opposition parties have petitioned the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), challenging Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede’s pronouncement that metal identity cards (IDs) will not be used in the voter registration process ahead of the 2018 elections. Coalescing under the National Electoral Reforms Agenda (Nera) Youth Forum banner, the parties argue that in terms of electoral…
HARARE – Zanu PF bigwigs and their allies who are in the habit of denigrating and insulting President Robert Mugabe will be cursed by God, First Lady Grace Mugabe has warned. Addressing supporters at a Zanu PF youth interface rally — the seventh out of a targeted 10 around the country’s provinces — in Gweru,…
GWERU – A medical doctor who attended to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in South Africa about three weeks ago revealed to President Robert Mugabe recently that the 74-year-old politician was poisoned, stoking further suspicions in the deeply-divided Zanu PF party. Mnangagwa had to be airlifted to South Africa for emergency treatment after suddenly falling ill…
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 – The door is still open for other political parties to join the opposition alliance, Jacob Ngarivhume (pictured), a spokesperson of an electoral coalition consummated earlier this month to take on President Robert Mugabe in the much-anticipated 2018 elections has said. The alliance comprises the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC, Welshman Ncube’s MDC, Tendai Biti’s People’s…
HARARE – Opposition parties have stepped up their campaign against Grace Mugabe by joining South African groups when they petitioned President Jacob Zuma’s government to withdraw diplomatic immunity granted to the first lady which allowed her to avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model in Johannesburg last month. Coalescing under the banner…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai flies into a storm when he heads to Bulawayo tomorrow for the official launch of the MDC Alliance in the country’s second largest city amid widening divisions in the labour-backed party, which have raised fears of another damaging split. As the long-time President Robert Mugabe rival visits Bulawayo, Matabeleland …
