Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses in Bulawayo are losing business to pirate taxis who are charging less than the government subsidised fares. In the wake of the lockdown, the government banned private commuter buses from ferrying passengers locally and made Zupco the only mode of transport. Zupco had been…
Nyasha Dube MDC youth leaders Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri are set to appear before High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora today. Mamombe and Chimbiri submitted an appeal for bail at the High court on Friday after Harare regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje denied them bail. The two were arrested on February 1 and charged…
Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance youth leaders Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have applied for bail at the High Court seeking to overturn a decision by the lower court which remanded them in custody last week. Represented by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the duo’s hearing has been set for today…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw AN UNLICENSED driver, who was involved in a hit and run which left a nine-year-old child seriously injured, has approached the High Court appealing his one-year jail sentence. Afrika Sangaza was arrested last year after the vehicle he was driving veered off the road and hit and injured Dion…
Blessing Masakadza THREE people accused of burning Harare medical doctor Johannes Marisa’s house in Ruwa after allegedly stealing a bag with US$50 000 spent the weekend behind bars and will be in court tomorrow for bail application. Blessing Mahutse, Simon Chavhunduka and Garikayi Ekaya, the gardener at the home, are facing allegations of theft…
Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw DIALOGUE between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition is now inevitable, and also remains the best way to ending Zimbabwe’s decades-long myriad challenges, professor of World Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (OAS), Stephen Chan, says. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the…
Godknows Matarutse POLICE have arrested former Labour, Public Service and Social Welfare minister, Petronella Kagonye, for allegedly selling vast tracts of land in Harare and Mashonaland East illegally. This comes after the Daily News reported last month that Kagonye was under investigation on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm,…
Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned people against steaming, saying it does not kill the coronavirus no matter how hot the concoction might be. This comes as Zimbabweans have gone into a steaming frenzy (kunatira) amid beliefs that the practice can kill the virus. Most people boil eucalyptus…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO BULAWAYO has closed all of its Covid-19 quarantine centres owing to shortage of public space to accommodate returnees. At the peak of the first wave of the deadly virus last year, the city had seven quarantine centres including Bulawayo Polytechnic and United College of Education as major centres for those…
TAMARY CHIKIWA in Bulawayo chikiwak@dailynewsonsunday.co.zw A TRIP around the eastern suburbs in Bulawayo leaves one wondering if people still depend on council water. Almost every house has a water tank and at the gate it is inscribed boldly that “borehole water here”. It appears that residents in these affluent suburbs have long given up on…
