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  BUSINESSMAN and football administrator Farai Jere appeared in court yesterday accused of swindling the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) of over US$3 million in a smart meters supply deal. Jere appeared before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube jointly charged with ZETDC engineer Leonard Chisina and information and technology senior manager Freeman Chikonzo. Through…

By Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson and spokesperson of the July 31 Movement, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, pictured, was arrested by authorities in Tynwald North — west of Harare — yesterday, having spent nearly a month in hiding, the Daily News reports. At the same time, another organiser of the foiled…

  THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed mobile money operators to immediately close all multiple wallets and allow just one wallet per individual. THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed mobile money operators to immediately close all multiple wallets and allow just one wallet per individual.   This came out from the…

  By Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SOUTH Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) says its government should be frank and straightforward about what is happening in Zimbabwe before a solution to the country’s problems is found. ANC chairperson of the subcommittee on international relations Lindiwe Zulu, told a virtual Governance Accountability Platform (GAP) discussion…

Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS EFFORTS continue to end Zimbabwe’s decades-long political crisis, MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, pictured, says any meaningful national dialogue that is to take place in the country should necessarily involve the military. Speaking to the Daily News in an exclusive interview yesterday, the shrewd lawyer-turned-politician said the…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has become the latest casualty of the MDC’s mindless bloodletting, after he was removed from office yesterday together with five other councillors, the Daily News reports. The Glen Norah councillor became the mayor of the capital city in September 2018, after the Harare City Council…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw   THE coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has seriously affected the second session of the 9th Parliament which will soon come to an end. This comes as both the National Assembly and the Senate are not sitting as the country is grappling with the spread of the deadly Covid-19. Legal watchdog…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE ongoing labour unrest in the health sector is contributing to the increase of daily Covid-19 deaths in the country as patients are not able to receive medical treatment, health experts have said. This comes as the country recorded nine Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday with the total death toll…

Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw POLITICAL tensions continue to escalate in the country, with a bristling President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing some local churches yesterday of advancing a dangerous agenda against the government, the Daily News reports. In addition, Mnangagwa also challenged church leaders whom he said might be harbouring political ambitions to formally swap…