HARARE – Sports minister Andrew Langa assured the nation this past week that he was now taking a leading role in ensuring Zifa’s debt with former Zimbabwe national football team coach Valinhos is paid. Zimbabwe made all the wrong headlines a fortnight ago when world football governing body Fifa suspended the Warriors from the 2018…
HARARE – Impala Platinum (Implats)’ Zimbabwean unit Zimplats has lost its High Court challenge of a $29,6 million additional profits tax (ATP) bill imposed by the country’s revenue collector. Alex Mhembere, Zimplats chief executive, on Thursday said “the effect of the judgment is that (the group) will have an additional liability for APT for the…
HARARE – It would to be a cold day in hell if fate handed me the great misfortune of having one of my offspring leap into the deadly arena of politics. I appreciate to others, this would be manna from Heaven, likely to boost both parents’ egos and fortunes. But an example of a would-be…
HARARE – Outspoken former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda says a glaring lack of government accountability coupled with gross corruption by many Zanu PF bigwigs was at the heart of Zimbabwe’s continuing political and economic crisis. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, the brutally candid Sibanda said Zanu PF was solely to…
HARARE – The legal counsel for Econet Wireless’ banking subsidiary Steward Bank, Tawanda Nyambirai, says Thursday’s raid on online news agency, The Source, was justified. Nyambirai, together with Steward Bank’s acting chief executive officer, Lance Mambondiani, addressed a chaotic Press conference on the complex matter in Harare yesterday — that pits the right of the…
HARARE – City fathers in Masvingo and Harare are on a collision course with their residents who are resisting the installation of prepared water meters. On Thursday evening, Harare residents demonstrated against the city’s plans to install prepaid water meters during a full council meeting at Town House. In Masvingo, the Masvingo United Residents and…
CHITUNGWIZA – The recent political violence in Chitungwiza has taken another turn following allegations by MDC activist Gerald Fokisa that it was the local police not Zanu PF youths who broke his leg. Speaking from his hospital bed at Avenues Clinic, Fokisa said police came to a shopping centre in Manyame Park, St Mary’s, together…
HARARE – Voter apathy characterised the Mt Darwin West by election, which was boycotted by the main opposition MDC on the grounds that the electoral playing field was heavily tilted in favour of the ruling Zanu PF party. The seat became vacant following the appointment of Joice Mujuru as Vice President after the 2013 elections….
HARARE – A Harare car dealer who reportedly worked in cahoots with Oceane Perfumes managing director, Hupenyu Ignitious Prosper Mashangwa to dupe Walter Magaya’s wife $116 000 by evading payment of motor vehicle duty appeared in court on Thursday. Victor Ngonidzashe Matiyenga, 27, who runs a car sale at Greencroft in Harare, appeared before magistrate…
MUTARE – As the once-rich Marange diamond mining companies struggle to pay employees, illegal diamond dealers have resurfaced in Chiadzwa. The dealers are getting a steady supply of the rare gems through clandestine methods, pressure groups in the extractive sector have said. The Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association (Zela) and Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG),…
