HARARE – The Constitutional Court registrar has set down a date for hearing an application by law expert Alfred Mavedzenge seeking to stop biometric voter registration (BVR) by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The hearing has been set for July 5, after Chief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday granted him direct access to approach the highest…
HARARE – Former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) chief executive Cuthbert Dube and ex-PG Industries chief executive Gerald Mujaji are the latest high profile businessmen who are set to lose their properties over non-payment of debts. This comes as several entrepreneurs and company executives have been losing assets across the country since dollarisation in…
HARARE – The State has ordered a probe into the death of former Cabinet minister and diplomat Amos Midzi who was found dead in the back of his car two years ago at his Marirangwe farm, a few kilometres outside the capital. Midzi was suspected to have taken his own life although his family members…
HARARE – Police have warned that fake roadblocks were being mounted by expelled cops to extort money from motorists. “We are fully aware of the machinations of some unscrupulous elements who have formed a fifth column that masquerades as police, conducting illegal roadblocks, using spikes and collecting money for themselves,” police spokesperson senior assistant commissioner…
HARARE – Chief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday said Cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo did not exhaust all remedies available to him when he approached the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) to challenge the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (Zacc) arresting powers. Malaba said this during the hearing of a constitutional challenge brought before the…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF has taken the unprecedented step of banning its members from bringing cell phones to politburo meetings amid concerns that there were some in the party who are leaking information to the media. Politburo chair, President Robert Mugabe, was in a no-nonsense mood when he arrived at the venue of yesterday’s…
HARARE – Consumers must brace for massive increases in the price of bread, maize-meal, cooking oil and sugar, hovering around 10 percent, as millers begin to comply with a government directive that requires them to add nutrients in the production of these basic products to reduce the long-term effects of poor nutrition among citizens. Beginning…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party’s supreme decision-making organ in between congresses, the politburo, meets in Harare today for another crunch meeting that could end the uncertainty surrounding Saviour Kasukuwere’s future as the revolutionary party’s national political commissar. The 47-year-old Mount Darwin legislator goes into today’s potentially explosive meeting unsure whether he will keep…
HARARE – Daily News staff writer, Sharon Netsai Muguwu, 28, passed away in Harare early yesterday morning after a long battle with cancer. The only daughter and the first child in a family of three siblings, the good-natured and much-loved journalist spent the last four months in hospital, as she bravely battled the disease. Sharon…
MUTARE – The MDC has urged vendors and school pupils to stay home on Friday to avoid being commandeered to President Robert Mugabe’s youth interface rally at Sakubva Stadium. MDC national youth assembly member Knowledge Nyamhoka told the Daily News yesterday that they are informing their supporters to withhold their children from school and those…
