CHIEF WRITER ZANU PF was yesterday forced to postpone its scheduled meeting of the politburo amid fears that attending party bigwigs would be infected with Covid-19 as no measures had been put in place to protect them. The routine monthly meeting had been called to discuss, among other things, the Covid-19 pandemic and national immunisation….
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE is expected to continue receiving heavy rains for the next three months, which can cause floods in low lying areas. Speaking during Tuesday’s post-Cabinet media briefing, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said Environment minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu told the Cabinet that people must stay alert as the heavy rains were…
Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw POLICE on Monday fired warning shots at a suspected gang of illegal ivory dealers who had 11 elephant tusks before arresting them in Arcadia, Harare. The court heard that Joseph Mubaiwa, a soldier attached to Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks, was in the company of Ouidiance Rundofa, William Manager and…
Myles Matarise STAFF WRITER matarisem@dailynews.co.zw The right to vote is critical to democracy and The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) recognizes the equal right of people with disabilities to participate in political life. ZESN made it a point that illiterate or physically handicapped voters are not excluded from political and social engagement so they can…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw NORTON Independent legislator Temba Mliswa was today arrested for contravening Covid-19 lockdown regulations. Mliswa was picked up while having a press conference at his Borrowdale home in Harare. He was trying to clear his name against allegations made by his estranged girlfriend Susan Mutami who accused the voluble legislator…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE has lost another high- ranking official to Covid-19 following yesterday’s death of the country’s ambassador to Mozambique, Douglas Nyikayaramba President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced retired army Lieutenant General Nyikayaramba’s death at a private hospital in the capital where he was battling the respiratory disease. Covid-19 last month claimed the lives…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw MDC activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri’s bid for freedom was yesterday granted after High Court Judge Justice Webster Chinamora released them on $10 000 bail each. The two were arrested on February 1 and charged with undermining police authority after they were allegedly involved in a verbal altercation with…
Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Labour minister Petronella Kagonye, who is facing a slew of corruption allegations involving land deals, has been released on bail. The alleged deals include the allocation of Alderly Farm in Arcturus to her then minor son. Kagonye appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje facing four counts of fraud,…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITERS DEBATE continues to rage among the chattering classes over President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment on Monday night of Frederick Shava, pictured, as the country’s new Foreign Affairs minister. The publicity shy Shava, 71, has been Zimbabwe’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. He will…
Dakarai Mashava FEATURES & MAGAZINES EDITOR FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will headline a discussion forum to be convened tomorrow by the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) via Zoom on the funeral sector’s capacity to handle rising Covid-19 deaths. Ncube will share the podium with Health and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro at the…
