HARARE – A Manicaland-based Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer is set to lose a substantial amount of his salary after it was garnished by the court to pay a victim that he brutally tortured over two years ago. According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), which represented the victim, who was an ‘‘A’’…
HARARE – Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa’s witticism on Friday sparked controversy when he appealed to struggling farmers in hunger-torn Muzarabani District to feed the underpaid nurses as a form of improving good relations. The statement made in jest flew in the face of an appeal by Muzarabani MP Christopher Chitindi, who had asked…
HARARE – As the debate continues to rage about the extensive use of the United States dollar in the country, the chief executive of Zimbabwe’s biggest financial services group CBZ Holdings — Never Nyemudzo — says the coveted greenback has played an important role in stabilising the local economy over the past eight years. Speaking…
HARARE – It is turning out to be a very long walk to freedom for activist cleric Patrick Phillip Mugadza, who has been forced to endure yet another painful weekend in jail, after a clerk at the Harare Magistrate’s Court decided to play hardball with him. Mugadza’s miffed lawyer, Obey Shava, told the Daily News…
HARARE – Parliament had to be adjourned last week during a crucial debate on xenophobic attacks on Zimbabweans in South Africa because Members of Parliament, who were present, could not constitute a quorum for the debate to proceed, the Daily News on Sunday can report. On March 1, Mabvuku-Tafara MDC MP James Maridadi presented before…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s deaf community has called for a sign language curriculum. While the Primary and Secondary Education ministry in its new curriculum has made the syllabi for Shona, Ndebele, Tonga, Tshivenda, Kalanga, Nambya, Sesotho and Shangani to mention a few, the new programme of study is conspicuously silent on the indigenous language of the…
BULAWAYO – Former Gweru mayor Hamutendi Kombayi has appealed to the High Court here to compel the government to set aside the decision by an independent tribunal to expel him. This comes after Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere last month expelled Kombayi and ward 4 councillor, Kenneth Sithole after a tribunal installed by the minister…
HARARE – A group of visiting specialist Indian doctors was forced to cancel high profile meetings with their Zimbabwean counterparts when police arrested them moments after arriving in the country on Thursday for allegedly practicing without licences. The incident came just a few weeks after President Robert Mugabe’s government scrambled to avoid a diplomatic row…
MUTARE – Rural district councils (RDCs) have slammed the transfer of the collection of land development levy in resettlement areas from RDCs to the Lands ministry, saying the move was starving them of revenue. The changes were ushered in through the Public Finance Management Amendment Act, 2016 gazetted as Act No. 6 of 2016 on…
BULAWAYO – Our Bulawayo reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi sits down with mayor Martin Moyo. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: Honourable mayor, how best can you describe your tenure from the time you took over? A: My tenure in office has been characterised by mixed fortunes. I suffered the passing on of our erstwhile town…
