Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw ©️ HIGH Court judge David Foroma has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by MDC-Alliance youth leaders — Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova — who have been denied bail for allegedly falsifying an abduction. After hearing arguments from the trio’s lawyer Alec Muchadehama and…
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, has postponed the party’s court-directed extra-ordinary congress which was slated for next month — where a substantive new party boss was to be chosen. Khupe’s spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni told the Daily News yesterday that the decision to push forward the gathering was informed by the party’s desire to ensure public…
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) — over the country’s deteriorating economic situation, the Daily News reports. This comes as workers are struggling to make ends meet due to the ever rising local inflation and prices of…
UNIVERSITIES and colleges will open full throttle next month with other not writing attending classes physically, Higher Education minister Amon Murwira said. This comes as schools have set July 28 as their opening date. Speaking before the parliamentary portfolio committee for Higher Education, Murwira said tertiary institutions have started to open in phases. “The ministry…
TWO more people have been nabbed in connection with the alleged siphoning of $158 million from POSB Bank in a case which has sucked in the bank accounts clerk. Hazel Makarau, 42, and Malvin Makarau, 39, appeared in court charged with fraud and were remanded out of custody on $5 000 bail each. It…
BULAWAYO High Court judge Nokuthula Moyo has dismissed with costs an application by a local civic society organisation Habakkuk Trust, which sought to interdict Parliament from conducting public hearings across the country on the proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 2 Bill. Habakkuk Trust, through its lawyers, had filed an urgent chamber application seeking an order directing…
PANICKY retailers and suppliers have started rejecting coins, $2 and $5 bond notes as the local currency continues to collapse on the country’s active black market, demanding, instead, to be paid in the much more stable United States (US) dollar. This comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced, with effect from today,…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS THERE is a renewed push to unite Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa ahead of the MDC’s extraordinary congress slated for late next month, the Daily News reports. This comes as Khupe and Chamisa have been involved in a fierce tussle for control of the country’s main opposition party…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw DOCTORS have warned authorities to fix quarantine centres to prevent a rise in coronavirus deaths and infections in the country, the Daily News reports. This comes as 179 returning residents — including one who tested positive for the lethal virus — have fled the quarantine centres, saying that they…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa hoodwinked the world into believing he was different from his predecessor Robert Mugabe, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, has said. Mnangagwa was feted like a king when he replaced Mugabe in November 2017 after a military intervention, with crisis-weary Zimbabweans believing at…
