HARARE – Television personality Oscar Pambuka says his five-year term in office as patron of Zimdancehall will see an end to rampant violence that has dogged the genre for a couple of years. Pambuka, who resigned from the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings in 2004 when he joined local textile manufacturing company David Whitehead as public relations…
HARARE – At least 500 pupils from 11 schools will tomorrow meet for a fun fair day being coordinated by Swizz Jet Aviation Development Trust. The annual event dubbed Harare Pre-schools Air Day will be held at Komani Private Air Base in Marlborough and entertainment for the students will come in the form of jumping…
HARARE – Royal Bank Zimbabwe Limited (Royal)’s directors could face prosecution after the defunct institution’s creditors on Wednesday approved a plan to institute legal proceedings against the ex-board for abusing depositors’ funds. However, this comes as liquidator Cecil Madondo also faces his own questions about undisclosed consultancy fees, allegations that he will take a lion’s…
HARARE – More than a dozen European Union envoys and business delegations that visited Zimbabwe in the last few months have insisted that the Zanu PF-led government must respect the rule of law if the country is to fully normalise relations with the international community. As such, it is critical for President Robert Mugabe and…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has dismissed as “outright madness” unrelenting State media reports that she is working with opposition parties, some prominent Zimbabweans and foreign governments to plunge the country into unprecedented chaos in a bid to trigger early polls. The murky claim that analysts have dismissed as “far-fetched” and “fit for…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa has described Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda’s decision to expel him from the House of Assembly as absurd and lacking in common sense. In an application filed together with Temba Mliswa, who has also been expelled from Parliament following the pair’s disputed expulsion from Zanu PF, the…
HARARE – Twent-one legislators who were booted out of Parliament for ditching the MDC to form the United Movement for Democratic Change, have filed a Constitutional Court application seeking to nullify their dismissal. The 21 had been elected into office on a Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC ticket. However, the group later formed a splinter group, which…
HARARE – Core Mining and Minerals (Private) Limited director Lovemore Kurotwi, accused of defrauding government of $2 billion says the State has failed to adduce evidence linking him to the commission of the offence. In his application for discharge filed at the High Court, Kurotwi, who is jointly charged with Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC)’s…
HARARE – A record of proceedings which was used during the trial of 11 jailed members of Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani’s sect was yesterday used to frustrate witnesses’ evidence during the cleric’s on-going trial. Mufani is being charged with public violence after members of his sect attacked journalists, police officers and Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has resolved to stage demonstrations on April 11, to protest against the economic meltdown. Japhet Moyo, ZCTU secretary-general, told the Daily News yesterday that the general council met last week and resolved to take to the streets. “In the meeting, we decided that we are going to…
