EDITOR — On a daily basis, one reads stories about the level of corruption that is happening in our country. Daily, you read about some people swindling various organisations and in some institutions people demand bribes for such things as college places, birth certificates, passports, drivers’ licences among many others. I would like to urge…
HARARE – Wilfred Mhanda lies quietly at Glen Forest Memorial Park. The absence of the national anthem, reverie and the gun salute did not take away his illustrious liberation history. Known by his nom de guerre Dzinashe Machigura, the late war commander died in Harare on Wednesday after battling colon cancer. His death has brought…
HARARE – Members of Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani Johane Masowe Church, who battered police officers and journalists using their shepherd’s crooks on Friday, have abandoned their shrine, with the church leader reportedly on the run. When the Daily News crew visited the shrine yesterday, not a single person was in the vicinity, with abandoned shepherd’s crooks,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has flatly refused to identify itself as an ally of the popular uprisings in North Africa, amid debate in the African Union (AU) that the putsch represented real democratic revolutions. Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s Justice and Legal Affairs minister, at the first meeting of government legal experts of the specialised technical committee on…
HARARE – Government and the World Bank (WB) are conducting research to ascertain the levels of mercury pollution in Zimbabwe amid indications that the highly toxic element has entered the food chain. Isaac Kunene, environment and natural resources director, said the Zimbabwe diagnostic report will give the country substantial evidence and help direct intervention strategies….
HARARE – Businessman Philip Chiyangwa’s former consultant engineer Elijah Chifamba has been cleared of fraud charges levelled against him by the flamboyant tycoon. Chifamba allegedly fleeced Chiyangwa’s Pinnacle Property Holdings of nearly $3 million, had earlier sued Pinnacle for failing to pay him $1,2 million for his services. A police document seen by the Daily…
HARARE – I have been a victim of police brutality countless times in my life, the most unforgettable being in 2007 when I was part of a group of MDC cadres who were assaulted for almost a week in a police station before being imprisoned for months on trumped-up charges of trying to unseat the…
HARARE – A Zimbabwe-based British national who was accused of raping a 22-year-old woman has been acquitted. Khwaja Hisha, 32, of number 17 Cosmos avenue, Ridgeview in Harare, was acquitted of rape charges last Friday after the State failed to prove a prima facie case against him. Hisha produced pictures taken during his encounter with…
EDITOR — While I understand the need for power authorities to load shed as efficiently as possible, I feel in other places like Mufakose it is no-longer mere load-shedding but total blackout. Power cuts should be short-lived and shared at least equally across all residential areas as possibly as can be done. In some residential…
HARARE – After what we all thought was his unforgettable visit to an newly-independent country called, not the Gold Coast but Ghana, Joshua Nkomo, the first president of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress, spoke of the experience with gushing eloquence. “When I was in Ghana…” he would begin, with such passion you wondered if…
