HARARE – The man who allegedly killed businessman Shingirayi Mukandi in a hit and run accident has been granted $150 bail. Alfred Machipisa’s trial is set to commence on August 29. Machipisa’s brother Fanwell, who is said to have helped hide the accident-damaged Isuzu KB300 at his place in Mabelreign, was granted $50 bail. Magistrate…
HARARE – Government will maintain the $390 per tonne maize price under its Command Agriculture programme in the 2017/2018 agricultural season despite it being the highest in southern Africa. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa defended the price. “You are quite right about raising opportunities for arbitrage, but we had to put in measures so that we…
HARARE – A $400 000 dispute between a construction company and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has spilled to the High Court which will hold a hearing in the legal battle stemming from a $4 million borehole drilling project. According to court papers, Water Logistics offered its services in police projects which include drilling boreholes,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is not happy with ministers who have not been attending the National Assembly to answer and clarify their policies during the weekly crucial Question and Answer sessions. During this period, MPs, on behalf of their constituents raise questions against relevant ministers who, most of the times are either attending business…
HARARE – Legislators across the political divide yesterday forced Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to rescind the appointment of Mike Ndudzo as the new Auditor-General. The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) chief executive had been earmarked to replace the illustrious Mildred Chiri, whose term of office has expired. But in a rare show of independence, Members of…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe waded into the succession debate yesterday, imploring her ageing husband, President Robert Mugabe, to anoint a successor now so as to narrow the widening rifts in the ruling Zanu PF. Over the years, the question of who should succeed Mugabe has caused rifts in Zanu PF between two factions…
BULAWAYO – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been sucked into a dispute between Bulk Cash and Carry Wholesale (BCCW) and one of its employees who has made a report to the police, accusing the company of externalising foreign currency, the Daily News can report. The allegations, which constitute a serious crime in Zimbabwe under the…
HARARE – A Gokwe businessman has petitioned Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo demanding $33 000 after he was mauled by a police dog at Gokwe Centre early this month. In a July 12, letter, Oren Rukwava’s lawyers Zvinavakobvu Law Chambers, said he was bit by the dog at a band performance at Junior Sport Bar….
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) — the largest independent observer group in the country — has called upon the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to expedite the procurement of the software for the central database or central Automated Finger Identification System (AFIS) for the bio-metric voter registration (BVR)system. Zesn said the quality of…
HARARE – Supported by hundreds of vendors, the non-partisan National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (Navuz) plans to register multitudes of new voters via street teams to be deployed countrywide ahead of next year’s crunch elections. The organisation announced its plans yesterday, building on its success in signing up thousands of informal traders. Vending in Zimbabwe has…
