© CHINA, whose Foreign minister Wang Yi jetted into the country on Saturday evening, and Zimbabwe yesterday signed a number of agreements expected to boost economic and political ties between the two countries. Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, who is on his fifth and final assignment in Africa after a five-nation visit, told journalists after…
© AT LEAST five members of a machete gang operating in the Mazowe area in Mashonaland Central were arrested at the weekend at Jumbo Mine, the Daily News reports. This comes as under pressure authorities intensify their bid to end the growing incidence of barbaric attacks on innocent civilians around the country by the ruthless…
© THE government warned yesterday that it would ruthlessly crush the mass protests mooted by the opposition to commemorate the death of people who were slain by security forces during last year’s ugly fuel riots, the Daily News reports. This comes as civil servants and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) are also threatening…
THE nightmare of unaffordably-high school fees has become a reality for stressed parents and their children, after the government yesterday gave public schools the green light to increase levies and boarding fees, the Daily News reports. This comes despite recent pronouncements by authorities that no school would be allowed to hike its fees by more…
WHILE gold and diamonds have created wealth for many countries and individuals across the world, this has not been the case in Zimbabwe, where these minerals have become a curse to ordinary citizens and other fortune seekers. Mining towns have been turned into war zones by machete gangs, popularly known as maShurugwi, who are terrorising…
A SUSPECTED robber, who was part of a five-member gang arrested in Harare’s Marimba suburb, succumbed to injuries he sustained during a shoot-out with the police, deputy police spokesperson Blessing Chishaka has confirmed. “Police in Harare have arrested Taurai Dzingai, 46, Godfrey Rufurwokuda, 44, Nabal Prosper Moyo, 25, Kenneth Madondo, 35 and Munyaradzi Chikarara, 35,…
AMID growing concerns over the killings of civilians and rivals by machete-wielding gangs across the country, the MDC says there are strong suggestions that the barbaric machete killers are controlled by powerful politicians. As a result, tough-talking MDC vice president Tendai Biti told the Daily News On Sunday in an exclusive interview yesterday that authorities…
© DEFENCE ministry procurement director Peter Muchakazi and an accountant, Mervyn Kunofiwa Madondo, were yesterday barred from entering Defence House after they appeared in court facing charges of criminal abuse. Muchakazi was released on $5 000 bail while Kunofiwa paid $3 000, and both were ordered to continue residing at their current addresses, report thrice…
© THE number of couples that filed for divorce at the Bulawayo High Court between January and December last year marginally declined to 674 compared to 820 the previous year. During the same period, 1 267 couples got married in terms of the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11 at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Courts. Lawyers and religious…
© THE African Development Bank (AfDB) yesterday gave Zimbabwe a US$10,4 million grant to improve the country’s domestic resource mobilisation and public sector management systems. The government will provide an additional US$1,1 million to the grant. The grant, which would be released under the Tax and Accountability Enhancement Project (TAEP), will benefit the Zimbabwe Revenue…
