HARARE – Munyaradzi Kereke, the ex-advisor to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, says he has launched a “criminal complaint” against the Daily News for re-publishing a newzimbabwe.com story that claimed his family’s alleged disappearance was a hoax. In a barrage of text messages and phone calls to the Daily News yesterday, the Rockfoundation…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has been directed by the High Court to proclaim election dates for by-elections in all vacant constituencies within 14 days. The National Youth Service Graduates Association (NYSGA) had approached the High Court seeking a court order directing that by-elections be held this year in accordance with the law. Abson Madusise,…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC will unveil a new party symbol at its 13th anniversary that opens today at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. The party is moving to clear confusion among voters and controversy over the open palm symbol which it shares with the smaller MDC led by Welshman Ncube. “We want…
HARARE – Lorraine* will not forget the day she was accepted into university. Her poor background had never stopped her from dreaming big and it only helped matters that she was under the government’s cadetship programme. Under the programme, government pays fees for underprivileged students, supposedly giving a relief to thousands who could have failed…
HARARE – The apostolic sect of Johane Masowe we Chishanu is engaging United Nations agency, Unicef, to help revamp a church school situated at their Gandanzara Shrine. With an enrolment of at least 150 pupils who live in and around the great Johane Masowe shrine, the school is unregistered and has five teachers. These teachers…
HARARE – Police officers at Harare Central Police Station begged popular pole dancers Zoey Sifelani and Beverly ‘Bev’ Sibanda to dance in custody for the cops pleasure. Bev revealed this while narrating her ordeal to the Daily News following her single night stay at Harare Central Police Station. Zoey and Bev were arrested for indecent…
HARARE – PrimeMinister Morgan Tsvangirai says Zimbabwe’s “struggle for change has reached a point of no return”, although military generals remain a threat. He told a bumper crowd estimated at more than 20 000 in Bulawayo yesterday that President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party would fall in a few months. Smarting from damaging…
HARARE – Brutal force employed by security forces to nab the rag-tag Zanu PF-sponsored militia at bus termini in the capital has seen an uneasy calm returning in most parts of Harare where police officers and soldiers are now the new “rank marshals”. But is the tranquillity going to last at a time when the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe could emerge as a better mining destination particularly in platinum compared to South Africa, if it changes its policy an analyst says. SA – holding the world’s largest known platinum reserves and followed by Zimbabwe – is currently facing operational problems ranging from increased downtime due to worker strikes and increased labour…
HARARE – Police have said recent claims by Rockfoundation Medical Centre founder Munyaradzi Kereke that his wife and four-year-old daughter “just vanished” are most likely a hoax. Kereke made the revelations in a letter to the Speaker of Parliament on September 19, strongly hinting that his former boss — Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor…
