HARARE – Intra-Zanu PF tension is scaling new heights ahead of President Robert Mugabe’s rally in Gweru tomorrow, as the ruling party’s warring factions leave no stone unturned in their bid to score major political points at the high-profile gathering, the Daily News can reveal. This comes amid widespread acceptance in the strife-torn ruling party…
MUTARE – Fearful villagers from the diamond-rich Chiadzwa area are accusing the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) of gross human rights abuses, which its chief executive officer, Morris Mpofu, confirmed were being investigated by police. President Robert Mugabe’s government was accused of gross human rights violations during the Chiadzwa diamond rush in 2008 when security…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is awaiting government approval to launch power plants to convert waste into energy at Pomona landfill and Mbare bio-gas digesters. HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme told the Daily News: “Work at Pomona is at an advanced stage in terms of awarding the contract. The paperwork is now with government. “In…
HARARE – Fewer than one in 10 leaders at Zimbabwe’s top companies are female, Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) research shows. ZGC chairperson Margaret Mukahanana- Sangarwe deplored the lack of progress in promoting women to executive roles. This comes as a study entitled Measuring Differences on Board of Directors in Zimbabwe 2015 highlighted that out of…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has ignored calls to postpone the launch of the party’s alliance in Bulawayo on Saturday — in a move which is likely to worsen cracks in the labour-backed party — whose provincial leadership wants the event postponed indefinitely. Saturday’s MDC Alliance rally follows the launch of an alliance pact…
BULAWAYO – Brothels are multiplying in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, with concerned city fathers mulling a campaign to clampdown on the menace. A survey by the Southern News found that numerous town houses in downtown Bulawayo have been converted into brothels or “lodges”, as owners seem to capitalise on the apparently lucrative oldest profession….
HARARE – A Marondera white farmer, Stephen Worswick, has dragged deputy Foreign Affairs minister Edgar Mbwembwe to the High Court accusing him of grabbing his farm at gunpoint. Worswick also wants Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora to give him an offer letter for his Chipunga Farm. In the application, Worswick cited Mbwembwe, the chief lands officer…
HARARE – War veterans and opposition parties yesterday poured scorn on the planned solidarity march with First Lady Grace Mugabe scheduled for Harare today, after she whipped a South African model with an electric cord who was waiting with two friends in a luxury hotel suite to meet one of her adult sons. Today’s demonstration,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest trade union federation, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has slammed government for denying Kwese TV — owned by Strive Masiyiwa — a broadcasting licence. This comes after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) has declared the Econet Group’s pay television service, Kwese TV, illegal and warned the company against providing…
HARARE – President of the National Council of Zimbabwe Chiefs, Fortune Charumbira, has won a High Court interdict stopping a probe into his legitimacy. High Court judge justice David Mangota stopped an investigation that had been set in motion by Faniel Mkwaira, who is challenging Charumbira’s chieftainship. “The provisional order herein be and is hereby…
