HARARE – Flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa has been compensated by government for the loss of his 587-hectare Stoneridge farm after he was given two pieces of land in Harare’s Manyame suburb and a portion of the annexed property. This effectively puts to rest a seven-year saga and dispute, which started when President Robert Mugabe’s administration…
HARARE – The driver of a South Africa-registered haulage truck that crashed with a bus at Nyamatikiti River near Chaka in Chirumhanzu, killing dozens of passengers, was charged with culpable homicide in an indictment unsealed on Friday. The indictment contained 20 counts of vehicular homicide against Regis Mungwari, 29, who was driving to Harare, according…
HARARE – Students studying towards medical degrees at the University of Zimbabwe’s College Of Health Sciences now qualify to secure licences to practice in California after they graduate, University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has said. This follows a long-standing collaborative partnership between UZ and University of California which was established in 1994. “In a most exciting…
HARARE – Zanu PF has warned opposition parties that they will face a rout of epic proportions in the much-anticipated watershed elections next year in which they are expected to participate as a coalition. Speaking to the Daily News after retaining the Mwenezi East constituency at the weekend, fit-again Zanu PF spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo…
HARARE – Jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s fresh rape charge has been dropped. Had he been convicted, his current 40-year jail term — imposed in 2013 over four counts of rape — could have been lengthened. He was removed from remand on the fresh rape charge yesterday that emerged following his…
HARARE – The decision by President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government to implement a five percent health levy on airtime and mobile data will hit hard long-suffering ordinary Zimbabweans who are reeling from multiple effects of a dying economy, experts say. This comes as two weeks ago, government enacted the new tax into law through the…
HARARE – Hard-pressed President Robert Mugabe’s government is issuing Treasury Bills (TBs) in a desperate move to raise money to pay restive civil servants’ 2016 bonuses, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told the National Assembly last week. This comes as government buckled under pressure from the agitated public workers, who turned down government’s residential stands among…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF women’s league bigwigs, Eunice Sandi Moyo and Sarah Mahoka, have thrown down the gauntlet at powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe to provide the evidence that shows that the duo misappropriated funds donated to the wing by well-wishers. Until the two women’s fall from grace, Mahoka — who is famed for…
HARARE – Bullish opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has vowed to finish off President Robert Mugabe and his warring ruling Zanu PF in next year’s make-or-break national elections — adding that he stands ready to lead the planned grand coalition. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday, the fit again former prime minister…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been condemned for its continued harassment of families at Arnold Farm in Mazowe in Mashonaland Central, whose homes are being callously destroyed in a bid to evict them without alternative shelter. This is despite a consent order by High Court Judge Justice on March 24 that barred…
