HARARE – Anger against First Lady Grace Mugabe’s land grabs in Mazowe is growing, with opposition parties uniting in their condemnation of her callous eviction of poor families from Manzou Farm to expand her sprawling business empire in the area. This is despite stuttering attempts by Mashonaland Central minister of State, Martin Dinha, at the…
CHITUNGWIZA – The water flowing into people’s homes here is a greenish-gray soup of untreated human waste, a sign of an environmental and public health disaster that officials say will be one of the most enduring and expensive effects of the recent rains. In the month since the storm, millions of gallons of raw and…
HARARE – Preliminary distribution of relief materials for flood victims caused by the recent heavy rains has now started in Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central, the Red Cross has said. Takemore Mazuruse, the Red Cross spokesperson, said relief materials being distributed include tarpaulins for shelter, blankets, kitchen sets, soap and buckets for water storage “Red…
HARARE – The superdad status of Star FM’s “Skywalker” recent exposition has shocked the nation for a man who was so well-loved on radio. With eight wives and almost all of them having sired children for him, Skywalker is always cheerful while working as a radio DJ, the platform he is now being accused of…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe enters 2015, media practitioners have called on the government to move swiftly to align media laws to the new Constitution amid deadly succession fights in the ruling party that have put press freedom on the back burner. Media practitioners told the Daily News on Sunday that as long as there are…
BULAWAYO – The City Council here has criticised Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for failing to remit funds to rehabilitate roads as a crater field of potholes is being neglected. The road defects, which can be found on almost all roads here, have been getting progressively deeper for weeks since the inception of the rains…
HARARE – Property belonging to Miss Curvy, a local pageant targetting voluptuous women, will be sold by public auction on January 20 to pay off an unspecified debt owed to Treasure Point Travel Tours. The local pageant, which ran its last edition in August last year, is run by former model Mercy Mushaninga’s Zim Gossip…
BULAWAYO – Crispen Ndlovu, 24, a writer-cum-film maker has finished working on his third short film production titled Juju Wedding. The versatile artist, who has written at length on the infamous Gukurahundi atrocities, told the Daily News that the new project would premiere next month at a venue to be announced. “I am happy that…
HARARE – We meet again after a very bleak so-called festive season at a time when the national predicament is worsening every day. The signs of national leadership failure are now even more glaring for everyone to see, with government now literally lurching from one crisis to the other. With paralysis everywhere, the President, insensitive…
HARARE – Troubled Interfin Bank (Interfin)’s clients will only be paid their deposits after the High Court has granted the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) an order to liquidate the financial institution, the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) said. Last month, the RBZ denied extending Interfin’s curatorship after potential investors failed to inject fresh capital, paving…
