GWERU – Fuel dealers here have maintained old fuel prices, defying government’s order to slash prices to the recommended $1,32 for petrol and $1,20 for diesel following a slump in world oil prices, the Daily News has learnt. At Total, the pump price of petrol and diesel remained at $1,46 and $1,37 respectively. Engen maintained…
HARARE – Businessman Mutumwa Mawere has written a letter to President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao demanding a whopping $2 million for defamation. Mawere, through his lawyers Chivore & Partners Legal Practitioners, wrote the letter on January 7, this year. The lawyers said the defamatory statements appeared in an article which Zhuwao authored in the…
HARARE – Environment deputy minister Simon Musanhu (pictured) has died, acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced. Musanhu, who was the Hwedza North MP, is said to have collapsed and died on Wednesday at his home in Harare. Mnangagwa said he received with deep sorrow the news on the untimely death of Musanhu who was appointed…
HARARE – The Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi has threatened to take legal action against the police whom he accuses of dragging their feet in investigating the Baba Jukwa saga. In a letter addressed to commissioner-general of police Augustine Chihuri, Kudzayi demands to know the progress on the case. Kudzayi was arrested last year following…
HARARE – A fire broke out at Harare’s High Court building on Wednesday night, reducing to ashes the premises’ guardroom. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) deputy secretary Walter Chikwanha refused to comment on the matter and referred the Daily News to the police. “The matter is being investigated by the police, so it’s best that…
HARARE – The Youth Cultural Festival (Yocaf) will this year honour the late iconic playwright and actor, Walter Muparutsa (pictured). Running under the theme I Will Act Now, the festival will be held from July 30 to August 1. Also introduced this year are two more accolades which are the Professor R Zvobgo and Doug…
HARARE – Two hundred and forty-five workers are set to lose their jobs upon liquidation of Transport minister Obert Mpofu’s collapsed Allied Bank. This comes as nearly 1 000 banking sector employees were pushed onto the streets in 2014 as some financial institutions rationalised operations while others went under — in the wake of waning…
HARARE – Australia-based mining group Prospect Resources Limited (Prospect) has received the first tranche of $103 725 from a $300 000 placement targeted at funding its Zimbabwean gold operations. The finances will provide general working capital, fund exploration and pay for the progressing litigation against Alexander Molyneux, Blumont Group and Pacific Advisers in relation to…
HARARE – It might not entail going back to 1980 and even further than that. But it would certainly be useful for you to recall how it was that the people of Zimbabwe, en masse, decided to rise up against foreign oppression and sacrifice their lives for their future and that of their children. It…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, who has been on annual vacation in the Far East, will be returning home anytime now — where he will be confronted with a myriad of problems. Mugabe, who turns 91 next month, will come face to face with the fissures in his party worsened by the fresh challenge from…
