HARARE – Police were yesterday said to have intensified investigations into allegations that dozens of land barons, were illegally selling municipal, State and property developers’ land as government battles to stop the fraudulent activities which saw the suspects raking in millions of dollars in the past few years. National police spokesperson, Charity Charamba yesterday told…
HARARE – A senior cop has dragged commissioner general of police Augustine Chihuri to the High Court after he was jailed for seven days for misconduct. Detective constable Lazarus Gondo cited the police board president chief superintendent Mutifori and Chihuri as first and second respondents respectively. Gondo told the court that he appeared before Mutifori…
HARARE – Zimbabwe-born Tinashe “T-Collar” Sibanda, 23, who co-produced the recently-released duet by Chris Brown and Rita Ora titled Body On Me, has paid tribute to his parents for supporting his desire to pursue a career in music. The Los Angeles-based music producer told the Daily News that he realised that music would be his…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has increased the minimum capital requirements for insurance firms by 233 percent to $5 million from the current $1,5 million, businessdaily has established. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said the upward review of minimum capital requirements for the insurance sector was aimed at improving underwriting capacity and contain insurance business outside the country….
HARARE – Zimbabwe has disbursed close to $50 million towards energy sector projects during the first half of the year as the country moves to alleviate power shortages. In his mid-term fiscal review Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, said of this amount local resources contributed $23 million while loan financing was $22 million and development partners…
LONDON – No one denies the importance of history to any society. But history can be both a distractive and destructive weapon. A clear example of the destructive use of history is that of the Israelis. Because of the despicable events of the Holocaust, Israelis have capitalised on the sympathies on this dreadful event to…
HARARE – Emotions are boiling over again regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of liberation struggle icon General Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious fire at his Beatrice farm — just outside Harare — in 2011, as well as the post-congress Zanu PF’s continued desecration of his name. This comes as the Daily News confirmed yesterday…
HARARE – Results-day figures show once again that high school students have excelled in their A-level exams. Results released yesterday show continued improvement in academic qualifications from last year. Figures showed the overall pass rate had risen to 86,62 percent – up by 4 percent on 2014, Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) said. More than…
HARARE – Both Zanu PF and opposition MDC MPs say they will support amendments to the Labour Amendment Bill, which have been brought to the national assembly for lawmakers to consider as long as the proposed changes benefit employees. Following the termination on notice of an estimated 20 000 jobs by several companies in response…
HARARE – Seven land barons were yesterday charged with fraud after selling a piece of land meant for primary school construction. Clifford Chimusoro and Stanely Mugari, the chairperson and secretary of Ebenezer Housing Co-operative respectively, were granted $500 bail each when they appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo. They were restricted from visiting the land…
