By Rutendo Ngara AT LEAST nine people died on the spot and 31 were injured in a road accident when a Toyota Caravan collided with another minibus along the Harare-Masvingo Highway yesterday. Police national spokesperson assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident, saying it occurred in the early hours of Friday, and the nine bodies…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has suspended more than 400 growers from selling tobacco this marketing season on allegations of misconduct, including fuelling side marketing. Last year, at least 37 000 growers and 11 contractors were deregistered for the same offence. In a statement yesterday, TIMB said the suspended farmers’…
THE United Nations (UN) has committed to strengthening the government’s capacity to improve service delivery to the citizens, the international body said yesterday. “The 2022-2026 Zimbabwe UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (ZUNSDCF) agreed to focus in 2023 on strengthening government and partners’ capacities at national and sub-national levels to plan and deliver transparency and accountability…
A FULL bench of the Constitutional Court(ConCourt) will now hear MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora’s challenge against the recently gazetted delimitation report by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This comes after a three-judge ConCourt panel chaired by Justice Paddington Garwe ruled yesterday that the opposition leader — who also wants to have this year’s crunch national…
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba says the electoral body is fully geared to conduct this year’s general elections expected between July and August while it is working on establishing a framework to solve anticipated electoral disputes. Presenting oral evidence before the parliamentary thematic committee on Peace and Security on Wednesday, Chigumba said Zec…
HIGH inflation, low disposable income and unrelenting power cuts have dampened prospects for pomp and fanfare during the Easter holidays, consumers have said. Thousands of city-dwelling Zimbabweans usually travel back to their rural homes during the Easter holidays, taking gifts and food for feasts and sharing them with their families, however, this year consumers said…
Brandon Josphat AUTHORITIES are optimistic that the official exchange rate and the parallel market rate will stabilise starting next month, as the tobacco season continues amid hope prices of basic goods will also stabilise. This comes as official and parallel market rates, which nearly converged last year, are now beginning to widen at an alarming…
GLOBAL broadcaster Al Jazeera has flighted the third episode of its four-part documentary focusing on alleged gold smuggling and money laundering in the country. Yesterday’s episode mainly focused on claims that the gold said to be smuggled out of the country is allegedly being “cleaned” and traded in Dubai. According to Al Jazeera, Dubai had…
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) is today expected to hear the legal challenge by MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora seeking to have the forthcoming national elections delayed. This comes in the wake of the criticism levelled against the recently gazetted delimitation report by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). Mwonzora’s lawyer Trust Maanda confirmed to the Daily News…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere, was yesterday convicted of publishing falsehoods after she broadcast a tweet claiming that a police officer had fatally struck a baby with a baton. This comes after Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere, ruled that Mahere had lied and undermined the authority of the police in her 2021 tweet,…
