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HARARE – High Court judge Charles Hungwe has slammed the police for gruesomely manhandling a self-proclaimed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, arrested at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on allegations of undermining the police. Hungwe asked the prosecutor Kenias Chimiti to explain if the police actions were justified under the circumstances. “How did the…

HARARE – Gokwe has regained its lost status as the country’s principal cotton producing district after delivering a staggering 31 million kg of the crop so far. Statistics released by the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) for August show that 60 million kg of the cash crop was delivered to the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco)…

HARARE – Maud Muzenda, the widow of the late Vice President Simon Muzenda, has been declared a national heroine. Gogo Muzenda, who died at the Avenues Clinic in Harare on Tuesday from hypertension and diabetes, was praised for her down-to-earth demeanour and dignified motherly role by those who offered their own recollections of her life…

HARARE – An arbitrator has ordered the reinstatement of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) finance director Thomas Mutizhe, expelled from the organisation in 2014 for alleged gross incompetence and insubordination. Through his lawyer Kudzai Gama from Gama and Partners, Mutizhe challenged the dismissal, leading to an order being granted in his favour. “In the…

BULAWAYO – The High Court here has reinstated Gift Banda to his position of Bulawayo deputy mayor as well as ward 5 councillor. The ruling by Justice Martin Makonese followed an appeal by Banda challenging his dismissal from the local authority. Banda was early this year expelled by the Local Government, Public Works and National…

HARARE – Government is funding the long-delayed Runde-Tende mega dam project in Masvingo, with work beginning soon, Agriculture deputy minister Davis Marapira has said. He told a Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) and Zimbabwe Agricultural Society breakfast meeting on Tuesday that the vast new reservoir would regulate the flow of water to farmland in…

HARARE – Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) leaders rounded up in a dragnet arrest as they convened a general council meeting in Manicaland province last September to discuss the welfare of students in tertiary institutions have filed a suit against the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo and police commissioner-general Augustine…

HARARE – South Africa’s deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, faced hostile questions from opposition legislators on Wednesday as he tried to win lawmakers over the controversial decision to grant diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe which allowed her to return to Harare and avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model. Ramaphosa…

HARARE – A mysterious fire broke out at Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s home in Tynwald, Harare and ravaged some sections of the sprawling property before the City of Harare fire tenders battled to put out the blaze which was nearing the main house. The house is guarded by State residences security personnel which, according to…

HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is still to receive any formal complaints to enable them to investigate the alleged poisoning of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Gwanda while attending a Zanu PF youth interface meeting, the Daily News can report. More than two weeks after the incident involving one of the most senior…