HARARE – The opposition MDC renewal team yesterday condemned the harassment of journalists at the Harare International Airport by state security agents after President Robert Mugabe fell while walking to his car. The increasingly frail nonagenarian, who often goes to the Far East for medical check-ups, had just finished addressing his supporters after returning from…
AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam is looking for an investor to buy five buildings where sex workers can work collectively in their own prostitution business, a spokesman for the city’s mayor says. Currently, prostitutes in the city work individually, renting the windows where they stand on view for prospective customers from the brothel owners. But this system…
HARARE – Businessman Zachary Wazara’s companies – Spiritage Zimbabwe Limited (Spiritage) and Suremed Medical (Suremed) – are claiming nearly $400 000 from collapsed Royal Bank Limited (Royal). According to Royal liquidator’s preliminary report, the bank owes defunct Spiritage $311 387 and another $86 530 is due to Suremed. Apparently, Wazara’s brother, Matthew, sat on Royal’s…
HARARE – In an incident at Harare International Airport yesterday that elicited loud gasps of concern among gathered senior government officials, service chiefs and Zanu PF supporters, President Robert Mugabe fell down a staircase as he walked off a podium. The increasingly frail nonagenarian, who often goes to the Far East for medical check-ups, had…
HARARE – There was pandemonium in Harare recently when grieving relatives “stole” the remains of a Zimbabwean woman whom local authorities suspect may have died from the dreaded Ebola virus in Conakry, Guinea late last year. The deceased, Tarisai Gombakomba, who was employed in Guinea as a domestic worker since 2009 by Professor Oumou Younosa…
HARARE – Ignatius Chombo, the Zanu PF secretary for administration and political commissar Savior Kasukuwere, yesterday vowed that they would not recuse themselves from the disciplinary hearing of former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa. Speaking on the sidelines of a clean-up campaign in Harare’s Central Business District, Kasukuwere said Zanu PF would move forward with…
HARARE – Zanu PF Manicaland provincial executive committee wants Didymus Mutasa recalled from Parliament immediately and replaced by Christopher Chingosho. In an interview with the Daily News early this week, Samuel Undenge, the provincial chairperson, said Headlands was insisting on the recall of Mutasa as Headlands MP, a move that forces a by-election in which…
HARARE – The opposition MDC has read the riot act to party structures amid allegations that the rank-and-file was pursuing a “corrosive post-congress agenda” through a social media campaign. In a move that critics sledged as an attempt to muzzle free expression in the opposition party, MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has written to the party’s…
HARARE – Ignatius Chombo, the Local Government minister yesterday insisted that all illegal vendors be flushed out of Harare central business district (CBD), in a move he said was aimed at restoring the capital’s sunshine status. Officiating at a Harare CBD clean-up campaign, Chombo said the time for illegal vending was over and vowed that…
HARARE – MDC legislators have demanded that Munyaradzi Kereke, the independent Member of Parliament for Bikita West, be expelled from Parliament. Innocent Gonese, the MDC chief whip, raised the matter in the National Assembly yesterday. “I believe there is a member who is a stranger in this house; I am referring to Kereke,” Gonese said….
