HARARE – Jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s appeal will be heard today before two High Court judges. Gumbura is currently serving an effective 40-year prison term after Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya convicted him on four counts of raping female congregants and contravening the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act. He filed…
HARARE – The United States government has backed away from giving any more public comments on the administration’s handling of Zimbabwe’s extradition request for the American dentist who shot a prized big cat, Cecil. In a carefully-worded statement, US embassy spokesperson Karen Kelley told the Daily News that due to privacy regulations, the Harare embassy…
HARARE – Hollywood actors Tongayi Chirisa and Danai Gurira are among several Zimbabwean artists in the running for the African Entertainment Awards to be held in the United States of America on October 31. The other nominated Zimbabwean artists are Brian Soko who produced Beyoncé’s song Drunken in love, songbirds Tinashe Kachingwe and Selmor Mtukudzi,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has so far paid out approximately $200 million towards maturing Treasury Bills (TBs), Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said. TBs are short-term most marketable money market securities that mature in one year or less from their issue date. Presenting his Mid-term Fiscal Policy statement last week, Chinamasa said Treasury mobilised $205 million as…
KUALA LUMPUR – A blue “plane seat” washed up on the same tiny island where wreckage thought to be a part of the wing from flight MH370 was found, it has been claimed. Nicolas Ferrier reportedly said he was on his daily patrol of La Reunion picking up debris from the beach, when he spotted…
HARARE – It has now been confirmed that former Vice President Joice Mujuru and other liberation struggle stalwarts who were brutally purged from the post-congress Zanu PF will not be returning to President Robert Mugabe’s warring ruling party. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, former Masvingo minister of State, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti —…
HARARE – A demonstration planned by ruling party youths against Gokwe-Nembudziya Zanu PF MP, Justice Mayor Wadyajena in Manicaland flopped at the weekend after the provincial youth league declined to cooperate, the Daily News has learnt. The plot to demonstrate against Wadyajena, who is believed to be vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s protégé, reportedly emanated from…
HARARE – Former Warriors defender Harlington Shereni yesterday applied for his $8 000 fraud case to be referred to the Constitutional Court (Con-Court). He is accused of disappearing without settling an $8 000 bill for his failed testimonial match. Shereni is officially being charged with “making off without payment”. Through his lawyer, Musindo Hungwe, Shereni,…
HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) chief operating officer (COO) Sharon Samushonga yesterday clinched two prestigious accolades from the Women’s Heritage Society World Organisation. Samushonga, who has been at the helm of ANZ, publishers of the market-leading Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday, the WeekendPost and a plethora of successful magazines since 2011,…
HARARE – The debilitating anarchy devouring President Robert Mugabe’s faction-torn Zanu PF is increasingly spilling into government, with the nonagenarian seemingly unable to mitigate the turmoil and ensure critically-needed policy coherence and consistency to lift the country out of its deepening economic crisis. Analysts who spoke to the Daily News at the weekend said at…
