HARARE – Starting July 5 2017, your favourite daily newspaper — the Daily News — will give its readers in Bulawayo and Mutare regions exclusive and comprehensive coverage of news in these respective areas. The Wednesday edition of the Daily News will carry unique and exciting news from Zimbabwe’s second largest city and surrounding areas,…
HARARE – The Auditor-General has unravelled shocking levels of official corruption at government hospitals where public funds are not being properly accounted for at a time when patients are failing to access basic drugs due to resource constraints. In a report tabled in the National Assembly last week, the Auditor-General, Mildred Chiri, revealed that the…
HARARE – Constantino Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), has once again waded into the factional fights rattling the governing party, taking aim at Jonathan Moyo — the Zanu PF politburo member — whom he is accusing of undermining the Command Agriculture scheme, whose implementation is fraught with legal headaches. On Tuesday,…
HARARE – Three bodyguards of Victory World Church founder Paul Sanyangore appeared in court yesterday for allegedly bashing the cleric’s brother for exposing the self-styled prophet’s allegedly stage-managed miracles. Tatenda Nyika, 23, Prosper Masango, 21, and Prince Kwinjo, 21, appeared before Mbare magistrate Gladys Moyo charged with assault. The trio, which resides in Mbare’s Matapi…
HARARE – Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) board members faced two hours of angry questioning at the annual general meeting (AGM) yesterday, as they were forced to defend the company against accusations of astronomical compensation for top management. The board for Psmas — Zimbabwe’s largest medical aid society by subscription — awarded themselves at…
BULAWAYO – The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) here has admitted failing to address the scourge of commuter omnibuses and small vehicles picking up passengers from undesignated points in the Central Business District (CBD). “We find that there are a lot of illegal operators that cover their number plates using a cloth, some of them they make…
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe (UZ) security clashed with medical students at the UZ campus yesterday when a demonstration against fees hike turned violent. Security replied with batons as hooded students threw missiles during the march by medical learners. Police later pitched up and arrested some of the students, together with #ThisFlag cleric Evan Mawarire…
HARARE – A woman who was busted at Harare International Airport hiding 3,8 kg of cocaine in her luggage will have to proffer special circumstances exonerating her from the offence or be jailed for the mandatory 15 years today. Beauty Mutashu was convicted of possession of cocaine after Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube ruled that the…
HARARE – Zanu PF has been accused of withholding food aid from opposition members as part of forcing them to vote for their candidate in next month’s Chiwundura by-election in the Midlands Province. However, Zanu PF has rubbished the allegations, maintaining that it is concentrating on retaining the seat which fell vacant following the death…
HARARE – Various government departments loaned insolvent Air Zimbabwe over $8 million to bankroll its operational expenses in the 2016 financial year. The Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri revealed this in a forensic report of government departments’ revenue statements and fund accounts for the year ended December 31, 2016. The AG established that the New Number…
