PARLIAMENT yesterday gave an ultimatum of Thursday next week for all legislators and ministers to declare their assets. Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda told legislators that they must comply with the country’s laws. “Two hundred and forty fours MPs have declared their assets, while 26 MPs have not declared their assets, which represents…
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a foreign national who escaped from Wilkins Hospital in Harare on Sunday, just as health officials were about to test him for the much-feared coronavirus, the Daily News reports. This comes as neighbouring South Africa yesterday announced that seven people had now been diagnosed with the lethal virus there,…
THE mystery over the US$840 million allegedly paid to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for Command Agriculture deepened yesterday with the company distancing itself from the programme. Appearing before the Tendai Biti-chaired Public Accounts Parliamentary Portfolio Committee, GMB operations manager Clemence Guta told legislators that the parastatal’s role…
BUSINEES came to a halt at Mpilo Central Hospital yesterday morning when nurses staged a demonstration against management for allegedly forcing them to resume duties without addressing their plight. Last year, nurses across the country resorted to work 12-hour shifts, twice a week, citing the biting economic conditions in the country. The nurses said they…
A SEEMINGLY deranged 20-year-old Binga man went berserk at the weekend, axing five people to death — among them his own relatives, the Daily News reports. This occurred as the killing of people, mostly over relatively petty issues, has been on the increase around the country in recent months — forcing police yesterday to warn…
MISSING political activist Itai Dzamara’s wife, Sheffra, has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa asking him to resolve her husband’s five-year abduction case. The letter, written yesterday, came at a time when the European Union also pleaded with Mnangagwa to bring finality to the Dzamara issue. Dzamara was abducted by suspected State security agents on March…
THE government says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are not doing enough to bring to book high profile people accused of corruption. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana said the current efforts against the high levels of corruption in the country, while commendable…
A third case of coronavirus has been confirmed in South Africa by the minister of Health Zweli Mkhize. In a statement released yesterday, Mkhize confirmed that the wife of the country’s first coronavirus case has tested positive for Covid-19. “Fellow South Africans, an announcement was made yesterday confirming the second case of COVID-19 in South…
MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, who was recently cleared of treason charges, has said Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi does not have any prospect of succeeding in his intended Supreme Court appeal against the acquittal. This comes after Hodzi, through Justin Uladi, who is an acting national director of public prosecutors, sought leave to appeal against High…
GOKWE Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has come to the rescue of more than 1 000 stranded students in his constituency by splashing $1 million on their Ordinary (O) and Advanced (A) level examination fees. This comes as the feisty youthful MP has often been criticised for driving expensive cars such as his swanky…
