HARARE – Brawling Zanu PF factions are said to be “thoroughly confused” by President Robert Mugabe’s directive that all Mashonaland Central structures stop holding demonstrations and divisive counter meetings against each other. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said Mugabe’s directive — ostensibly meant to give party bigwigs the space to determine the…
HARARE – If visibility and predictability are two foundations upon which stable financial markets are built, comments from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last week on the adoption of bond notes as a primary currency to alleviate cash shortages suggest Zimbabweans should brace for increased currency volatility. While the RBZ has said bond notes…
HARARE – Zimbabwe could be losing millions of dollars through misuse of retained funds by various government departments who are withholding 100 percent of the cash they are collecting from the public in a side pocket. This comes after Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) retained the highest amount of $204,6 million it collected last year,…
HARARE – The divorce industry in Zimbabwe is worth millions a year and mega-bucks settlements abound. And when stay-at-home mum Sibusisiwe Melody Marapira recently demanded custody of her three children with deputy Agriculture minister Davis Marapira, a monthly maintenance of $500 per child, school fees and 65 hectares of arable land at Lamonte Farm, nine…
HARARE – The United States will only ease sanctions on Zimbabwe after there are demonstrable economic and political reforms, Washington’s envoy said, after an African Union envoy maintained most of US’s economic restrictions were impoverishing poor citizens. US ambassador to Zimbabwe Harry Thomas and the African Union (AU) ambassador to Washington Arikana Chihombori-Quao went head-to-head…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s ugly tribal, factional and succession tussles boiled over into deadly violence in Harare yesterday when party supporters from opposing camps turned on each other and against police over embattled national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. The clashes occurred despite President Robert Mugabe’s reported calls for all party structures to end the current…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has apparently ordered all Zanu PF structures to stop the current push to give the bullet to the party’s under-fire national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, and his brother Dickson Mafios — who is the party’s chairperson in Mashonaland Central. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday…
HARARE – Saint John Apostolic is building a state-of-the-art hospital in Mhondoro which they hope to complete by the end of the year. The church’s archbishop Sydney Mabiza said the church had noticed with great concern that disadvantaged members of the community were travelling long distances to access healthcare. “The construction of this hospital named…
HARARE – The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is struggling to get enough cash to bankroll its operations, acting Prosecutor General (PG) Ray Goba has said. The NPA — responsible for instituting and undertaking criminal prosecutions on behalf of the State and discharging any functions that are necessary or incidental to such prosecutions — is a…
HARARE – An exhibit officer based at CID Vehicle Theft Squad in Southerton Harare reportedly swallowed $10 bribe money after being busted by a “trap team”, a court heard. Grace Tsingano, 35, received the money from a motorist she had entered a deal with not to impound his car, unaware that detectives were watching her….
