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…
HARARE – There was opposition fury as ministers “bunked” the National Assembly sitting on Wednesday to join tens of thousands of Zimbabweans who flocked to the burial of the late Brigadier-General Murozvi at the National Heroes Acre. A sitting of both houses of Parliament was supposed to conclude last week Thursday for a three-week break…
HARARE – Disgruntled war veterans yesterday lashed President Robert Mugabe for living in “la-la land” — adding ominously that they had now had enough of his “abuse” and would start returning “fire with fire” whenever he provoked them. Speaking in an interviews with the Daily News yesterday, the leadership of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War…
HARARE – Just like he did when he recently received a “special massage chair” from his Cabinet lieutenants, President Robert Mugabe has sent social media into a frenzy over his shaven head. This comes after the nonagenarian’s striking chiskop also caught mourners at Wednesday’s burial in Harare of the late Brigadier General James Murozvi at…
HARARE – Zanu PF structures are sharply divided over calls for the expulsion of the party’s national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. Following recent demonstrations in Mashonaland Central, Masvingo and Midlands provinces against Kasukuwere and his half-brother Dickson Mafios over a slew of charges, including seeking to topple President Robert Mugabe, fanning factionalism, setting up parallel…
HARARE – Zinara still owes Harare City Council (HCC)road maintenance money from 2015, HCC has revealed. Environmental management committee minutes, reveal councillors bitterly complained that Zinara had promised them funds for road maintenance but did not deliver. “Harare City Council expected no less than $15 million for the 2017 allocation, considering the state of the…
HARARE – Police officers have joined scores of illegal gold diggers hacking away at the verdant hills in remote Matabeleland South, glimpsing an opportunity to shore up their meagre salaries, but inflicting an intractable problem of environmental degradation. Speaking in the Senate last week, MDC Senator for Matabeleland South, Sithembile Mlotshwa, called on government to…
HARARE – The scores of hippos that have died in Binga since last week succumbed to a vicious strain of anthrax, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) said. Villagers who have been feasting on the mammals’ carcasses could be in danger of contracting the deadly disease. The areas at risk are those along the…
