EDITOR — Coalition Against Corruption (Cac) the leading anti-corruption organisation in the country is greatly dismayed by reports that the MDC has dithered in paying former staff who were employed in the former Prime Minister’s office their outstanding salaries as well as retrenchment packages. The party spokesperson was recently quoted in a local daily saying…
EDITOR — The front page of your issue yesterday had a very sad article about starving villagers. Surely, in a country with so many resources how can we have fellow citizens starving and nobody seems to care? Yet we have recently elected MPs clamouring for top-of-the-range vehicles at the expense of the lives of an…
HARARE – Electronic cigarettes imported from the United States are being sold in Harare’s Borrowdale suburb, in supermarkets and night clubs. The cigarettes come in five flavours, Menthol, Marlboro, Camel, Davida and tobacco, with the prices ranging between $25 to $50. Research shows that an electronic cigarette contains three essential components: a plastic cartridge that…
HARARE – Mary Chisi, 36, is married and has two primary school-going children that she has to manage after school. Chisi’s hands are full as she is also a director at a top company in the capital, Harare. She used to carry out a “school run”, whereby she would leave everything behind and dash to…
HARARE – Pastor Charles and Olivia Charamba performed to full houses during their recent four concert tour of Australia. Popularly known as Fishers of Men, the duo performed in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. “I was amazed with the kind of support we have in Australia and in particular in cities like Perth and Sydney…
CHISUMBANJE – A Green Fuel ethanol tanker exploded into flames when it was side-swiped by a Mazda T35 truck carrying a coffin and 30 mourners in a horror crash that left more than 20 people dead in Chisumbanje yesterday. The truck carrying mourners encroached into the haulage truck’s lane resulting in the crash. The bulk…
HARARE – Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans in drought ravaged areas are living on wild fruits and competing with wild animals to access scarce food and water amid intensifying hunger. Legislators made an impassioned plea to the Daily News yesterday to highlight the plight of villagers, warning that the rural folk could starve to death…
HARARE – Eric Knight, an aspiring Mbare MDC MP, has reportedly joined President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. The former ZBC radio and TV presenter and MDC candidate lost the Mbare poll to Zanu PF’s Tendai Savanhu. Rugare Gumbo, the Zanu PF spokesperson, confirmed that Knight was joining the former liberation movement. “We have always wanted…
HARARE – Welshman Ncube, leader of the smaller MDC, has turned to farming after dismally losing the July 31 elections. Ncube polled 2.68 percent in a presidential election that saw President Robert Mugabe winning 61 percent of the vote to claim a seventh term as president, while opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai finished second with 34…
HARARE – Wendall Parsons, a past Big Brother Africa reality TV show winner, was acquitted by a Harare magistrate in an alleged $20 000 car insurance fraud. Parsons, who was jointly charged with his brother William, was found not guilty after the court ruled that the State failed to prove a case against him. Harare…
