ARDA TRANSAU – A Johanne Marange Apostolic Church family comprising 14 wives relocated from Chiadzwa to Arda Transau by Anjin and currently squatting in a compound due to a housing unit stand-off have invaded 15 houses belonging to another Chinese diamond mining company in protest, the Daily News on Sunday has learnt. An ailing 89-year-old…
BULAWAYO – The nostrum that portrays a mine as a hole in the ground with a fool at the bottom and a liar at the top rings true to businesspeople that make brisk business from informal miners when they have struck gold. In Filabusi and Gwanda townships, business booms when gold panners that go by…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe said yesterday his disputed victory in the July 31 polls was free and fair although the main opposition, MDC alleges fraud and manipulation of electoral rolls. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has submitted a 54-page dossier of “all irregularities and all the illegalities” in the July 31 vote to the influential…
BULAWAYO – A memorial service to honour the late former South African president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela in Bulawayo has been postponed to today to pave way for a much bigger event in solidarity with the South Africans. The event which is being organised by the Christian community was supposed to be held on Thursday at…
HARARE – Chad Gandiya, Anglican Church prelate, is hosting the first thanksgiving ceremony since the defeat of renegade bishop Nolbert Kunonga. Precious Shumba, spokesperson of the Anglican Church Province of Central Africa (CPCA), told the Daily News that the church’s Harare diocese will hold the function at the Harare Gardens on Sunday. “On Sunday we…
BULAWAYO – A 36-year-old Bulawayo man was exposed when an unsuspecting buyer used a stolen phone. Nhlanhla Ndlovu, 36, has appeared before the courts facing three counts of armed robbery, aggravated indecent assault and malicious damage to property. He pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Gladmore Mushove and was remanded in custody until December 27. It…
BULAWAYO – There is no stopping accolades from being added to the bountiful and glittering Daily News trophy cabinet at the moment. The country’s leading daily paper reaffirmed its reputation with yet another set of awards won by two of its senior correspondents — Pindai Dube and Sydney Saize — who swept the board during…
HARARE – A Mbare Chimurenga Choir member has abandoned her family and is refusing her husband conjugal rights, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. This emerged after Fungai Nyamandi dragged her husband Maxwell Mauto before the Harare Civil Courts seeking a protection order. Nyamandi told magistrate Rebecca Kuvhiya that Mauto physically and verbally abuses her. Mauto…
HARARE – Government must align all existing pieces of legislation on health with the new Constitution to guarantee citizens’ right to mental and physical well-being, the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has said. ZADHR is a group of doctors and other health professionals agitating for the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard…
BULAWAYO – A farmer from Nyamandlovu has taken three colleagues to the Bulawayo civil court over a row on apportioning proceeds from a wildlife sale from their farm. Naison Ndlovu claims that Edward Mufandaedza, Francis Sibanda and Esnath Moyo are not entitled to any wildlife royalties at Groot Schuur Farm when the case was heard…
