BULAWAYO – Presidential aspirant and Alliance Peoples Agenda (Apa) leader Nkosana Moyo has described the alliance of opposition parties as an insult to the people of Zimbabwe. “Some are coming saying am I not splitting the vote, go and have a coalition with Morgan (MDC President Tsvangirai) and so on. This thing to say coalition…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned that it will not tolerate law enforcement agents that engage in any unlawful conduct that jeopardises public safety. This comes after five police officers were arrested following allegations that they had viciously assaulted a Harare man who lost his eye during the attack. The matter has…
MUTARE – The future existence of Vumba tropical rainforest’s rare habitat — home to the dwarf chameleon, Simango monkey and blue duiker — is increasingly getting threatened due to high vegetation loss. The forest’s pristine fauna and flora has been ravaged by illegal settlers and poachers. While the firewood poachers and squatter settlements have caused…
HARARE – Harare’s biggest water source, Lake Chivero, has been hit by siltation which experts yesterday said was a result of interference with wetlands mainly for agricultural and construction purposes. The interference with the wetlands has seen the Harare City Council (HCC) losing an estimated $45 million annually due to water loss and subsequent siltation…
HARARE – Businessman and Zanu PF official Energy Mutodi was finally granted bail yesterday by the High Court, to end his miserable stay in remand prison where he had been confined for nearly two weeks. The musician-cum politician was granted $100 bail after the State conceded to his release. Mutodi is facing charges of undermining…
HARARE – Special Economic Zones (SEZ) board chairperson Gideon Gono has cleared the air on the “mysterious” bag belonging to a Singaporean national which led to accusations that the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) boss had shielded his visitors from security checks at the airport when they arrived in Harare on Sunday. It turned…
HARARE – Zimbabweans across the political divide yesterday were united in their praise of Maud Muzenda, the widow of the country’s first deputy prime minister and vice president, Simon, who died in the capital on Tuesday evening after succumbing to diabetes and hypertension. She was 88. Politicians and ordinary Zimbabweans praised her down-to-earth demeanour and…
HARARE – Court proceedings were temporarily halted as top detective Joseph Nemaisa and his crack team wrestled with a self-proclaimed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya who had been due to appear at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday over allegations of possessing cocaine. The dramatic incident was sparked by Nemaisa, who swooped on Nguwaya…
HARARE – A Harare Magistrate was yesterday told how a Hatfield man and his wife were subjected to vicious assaults by members of the riot police who were controlling traffic at a busy intersection until the husband lapsed in a horrific incident which led him to lose one eye. Washington Gezana of St Patrick’s in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s two sons, Chatunga and Robert Junior, are back in Zimbabwe for good after sparking a diplomatic furore in neighbouring South Africa last week, the Daily News can report. Both 25-year-old Robert Jnr and his younger sibling, Chatunga, 21, returned home with their father and mother from South Africa on Sunday…
