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HARARE – Midlands bigwigs in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF want the party’s National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) to seal national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere’s fate without referring his case to the politburo. This emerged after the provincial coordinating committee recommended at its Thursday meeting that the Patrick Chinamasa-led NDC should immediately demote the Mount Darwin…

HARARE – The closure of diamond mining companies early last year has been cited as one of the reasons for the current cash shortages, investigations by the Daily News have revealed. Confidential documents seen by the Daily News, which are also set to be tabled before key government institutions, reveal that the formation of the…

HARARE – The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe $2,4 million to help farmers alleviate the impact of the lean season that peaked from January to March 2017. Once the bread-basket of the region, Zimbabwe has since 2000 struggled to feed its people due to droughts and President Robert Mugabe’s seizure of white-owned farms to…

RUSAPE – Hitchhikers are frustrating Rusape’s clean-up efforts by destroying bins along the Mutare-Harare highway by setting bonfires in them to keep warm at night, a senior council official has charged. Gladys Mushati, who heads the town’s environment department, told journalists during a tour of the city that hitchhikers along the busy Mutare-Harare highway were…

HARARE – Harare couple who has been charged for pimping two juvenile girls at their Old Highfield home in Harare have appeared in court. Defendants Mercy Muchenje, 36, and her husband Naboth Kereke, 37, are answering to charges of procuring for the purpose of child sexual exploitation before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba. They were remanded…

HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will soon pick his preferred coalition partners, as he bids to end President Robert Mugabe’s and Zanu PF’s 37 years in power, it has emerged. This comes as opposition parties have come under increasing pressure from long-suffering Zimbabweans to come up with a united front to end Zanu PF’s misrule….

HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s economy continuing to die — as manifested by rising poverty levels, worsening job losses and severe cash shortages — the government is showing signs of panic, amid fresh warnings by experts that the country is headed for an economic disaster akin to the meltdown of 2008. This comes as the Reserve…

HARARE – Former Zanu PF youth leader Lumumba William Gerald Mutumanje also known as Acie Lumumba was dragged back to court yesterday after spending a night in custody on an outstanding warrant of arrest relating to an alleged vehicle theft charge. This comes after Lumumba’s lawyers condemned the arrest of the Viva Zimbabwe leader at…

HARARE – A new law presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday that allows rural poor to deposit cattle as collateral for cash loans has received wide cross-party support. The Movable Property Security Interests Bill enjoins the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to compile and administer a collateral-security register in which small-business operators and individuals can…

MUTARE – Exorcists or tsikamutandas (witch-hunters) have been sledged as con-artists impoverishing poor communities through their hefty fines. Masvingo provincial administrator Fungai Mbetsa told a multi-sectoral community-based food and nutrition security meeting here this week that his office has been discouraging traditional leaders from using or approving their conduct. “Tsikamutanda are not institutionalised. It’s a…