HARARE – Police in Mhondoro-Ngezi are finding it difficult to attend to crime scenes due to a severe shortage of vehicles, officer commanding Mashonaland West province Rangarirai Mushaurwa has said. She said the single Land Rover Defender vehicle that has been servicing the area — dogged by rampant stock theft — is currently broken down,…
HARARE – Opposition Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) plans to petition Sadc over government’s alleged move to hijack the procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits from the United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP). A few weeks ago, President Robert Mugabe’s hard-pressed administration announced it will inject $17 million towards the procurement of the BVR kits, to be…
HARARE – The appointment process of retired Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku’s successor has lost credibility due to political interference, a legal watchdog — Veritas — has said. It said the race to replace Chidyausiku, who retired last week after reaching the retirement age of 70, has been marred by Zanu PF infighting. “It is…
HARARE – The crippling doctors’ strike, which was nearing four weeks, was called off in the interest of saving desperate patients’ lives, a union representing the health professionals said. According to the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), government offered them a raw deal as it failed to meet their demands, but they considered calling off…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe returned home from Singapore yesterday morning — where he had gone for a medical check-up — but will have little time to either rest or knuckle down to business in his office as he is scheduled to fly out this morning, to attend Ghana’s independence celebrations. Mugabe took medical leave…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister and one of the caretaker leaders of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party, Didymus Mutasa, says the popular former prime minister during the government of national unity, Morgan Tsvangirai, is the only person “capable and deserving” of leading the country’s mooted opposition coalition. Speaking to the Daily News in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government is set to endure yet another torrid time with its workers, with civil servants set to begin their long mooted strike tomorrow over their outstanding 2016 bonuses. This comes as the stone-broke government has been pressured to agree to a raft of demands by striking public health officials,…
HARARE – There is renewed fear among both businesspeople and ordinary Zimbabweans that the country’s economy may soon hit the disastrous lows of 2008 — as bond notes continue to lose their value against the United States dollar, with the coveted greenback now almost completely unavailable on the open market. This comes as economists have…
HARARE – Zimbabwean police using two-metre-long iron bars bristling with spikes to deflate vehicle tyres in an attempt to stop motorists alleged to have committed a traffic offence risk up to 10 years in jail, legal experts warned yesterday. Zimbabwe in 2004 enacted a criminal law re-enacting Section 18 of the Public Order and Security…
HARARE – The Daily News on Sunday’s Bridget Mananavire spoke to Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) president Edgar Munatsi about the ongoing strike by doctors. Q: As a starting point, what really triggered the strike? A: To give you a background of the on-going strike, sometime towards the end of last year, the government…
