HARARE – The court hearing of Mutasa Central MDC legislator Trevor Saruwaka’s legal challenge to his ejection from the National Assembly last October for wearing a jacket with the country’s flag colours has been deferred to June 22. In the application, Saruwaka cited speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and the chief security officer…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s controversial programme to redistribute land taken from white farmers cost 1,5 million jobs, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. “Right now our economy is highly informalised. I always give the statistics that in 1999 or thereabout, there were two million workers in the formal sector, by the time we reached 2005, because…
HARARE – The Avenues Clinic has become the first hospital in the country to deliver a test tube baby in almost two decades after re-introducing In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) programme last year. IVF is a process in which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body and the fertilised egg is later implanted into…
HARARE – Another crisis is looming at State hospitals, after fed up nurses gave notice to the government that they would soon embark on a crippling strike — as they press for improved working conditions and the dismissal of the Health Services Board (HSB) secretariat, which they accuse of failing to act on their grievances….
HARARE – As the unrelenting pressure being exerted on under-fire Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured) continues to mount, angry war veterans say it is time he is “cut loose” to save the ruling party from imploding. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, voluble war veterans leader and former Cabinet minister, Christopher Mutsvangwa,…
HARARE – An officer-in-charge of administration at Marlborough Police Station reportedly helped himself to $30 from money collected by traffic cops in fines, a court heard yesterday. Victor Jaja, 43, appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Chimboza and was remanded to July 19 pending his trial. He is being charged with unauthorised borrowing or use of…
MUTARE – A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer has been fined $50 for stealing four chickens. Rushmore Nyamutata, 25, was convicted on his own plea of guilty by magistrate Innocent Bepura. He was charged for stock theft as defined in section 114 (2) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act chapter 9:23. Prosecuting, Fletcher…
HARARE – Ill-conceived plans by the government to close 40 schools in Matabeleland South, on account of dwindling enrolments, have triggered outrage among ordinary Zimbabweans and civil society groups alike. This comes as teachers have also called for a re-think on the government’s moves to introduce a new curriculum, which has apparently resulted in some…
HARARE – The deepening rot at struggling flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, is said to have triggered serious safety concerns among security chiefs and brawling Zanu PF bigwigs — who are worried about the safety and security of the hired planes that President Robert Mugabe now regularly uses for his official travels. This comes as the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has ratcheted up its safeguards against Ebola, with the country requiring travellers mainly passing through the Mozambique border and other frontiers to undergo enhanced screening for the deadly virus. This comes as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed new cases of Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Zimbabwe’s…
