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POLICE arrested scores of former freedom fighters in Harare yesterday who were agitating for improved benefits and highlighting falling standards of living…

THE Agriculture ministry yesterday received information communication technology (ICT) equipment from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which will help it monitor…

FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe’s High Court case, in which she is challenging Chinhoyi magistrate Ruth Moyo’s decision upholding Chief Zvimba’s order to exhume the late former President Robert Mugabe’s remains, will be heard today. In the application, Grace demanded an order nullifying Moyo and chief Zvimba, Stanley Wurayi Mhondoro’s judgments. “I am advised that…

THE High Court has suspended trial proceedings — pending an application for review — against Harare lawyer and MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, pictured, in a case in which he is accused of verbally assaulting a Russian woman. Biti approached the High Court seeking a review of magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro’s decision to have his…

IT HAS now emerged that the recent move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to bar State Security minister Owen “Mudha” Ncube and current Midlands Zanu PF leader, Daniel Mackenzie-Ncube, from fighting for the regional party chairmanship is a formula that may be extended nationwide. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News yesterday that Mnangagwa has recommended…

THE governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John Mangudya, says the government needs to capacitate law enforcement agents to deal effectively with economic crimes. Speaking during Parliament’s pre-budget consultation seminar in Victoria Falls over the weekend, Mangudya said it was imperative that  there was discipline in the economy. This comes as some people are…

ZANU PF Harare Province chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa has withdrawn assault charges against his deputy Godwin Gomwe, saying they had reached a mutual understanding. Gomwe was accused of assaulting Masimirembwa at the party’s provincial headquarters. He reportedly fumed for not being notified of a meeting at the headquarters, shouting at Masimirembwa, threatening him before throwing a…

A SECTION of Zimbabweans, who met with the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Alena Douhan in the capital last week, says economic sanctions imposed on the southern African nation by the West must be lifted, as they were working to the advantage of Zanu PF. This comes as Zimbabwe yesterday commemorated the third anniversary of…

BULAWAYO City Council will next week unveil a new US$2m vehicle parking management system to decongest the central business district (CBD). The CBD had become overwhelmed by the volume of traffic. Cabinet recently approved a joint venture between the council and Tendy Three Investment (Pvt) Ltd (TTI) to implement the parking system. The company has…

THE tough monetary and policing measures taken by authorities over the past few weeks in a bid to rein in the harmful foreign currency parallel market appear to be bearing fruit. Surveys by Daily News crews at the weekend showed that black market rates have eased off to as low as $130 to the American dollar in…