HARARE – Despite the widespread belief among many Zimbabweans that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a powerful man in the warring post-congress Zanu PF, he is, like other party bigwigs, surviving solely on President Robert Mugabe’s benevolence, a local think-tank has said. Commenting on the goings-on in the ruling party and the country in a…
HARARE – Supporters of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her People First project say they are receiving death threats for campaigning for her and the movement. Victims of the terror campaign told the Daily News yesterday that the blood-curdling threats against them had been a big problem particularly in Harare and Manicaland province. [GoogleAd]…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) has asked Parliament to approve a controversial change to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, giving the Prosecutor-General (PG) Johannes Tomana wide discretionary powers to withhold private prosecution certificates in a vast range of circumstances. The law previously allowed private parties to personally lodge criminal charges against any…
HARARE – A Warren Park 1 wife killed her baby after attempting to pour a jug of scalding water over her husband after an infidelity row. The six-month-old baby suffered fatal first degree burns to the body after the assault at their home in Warren Park this month. The baby sustained injuries showing painful blistering…
HARARE – Student teachers could be netting less than $50 if government forges ahead with plans to deduct their monthly allowances, the Zimbabwe Teachers Association has said. Zimta president Richard Gundani told the Daily News that given their meagre earnings, student teachers would barely be able to afford transport costs. [GoogleAd] According to Public Service…
MUTARE – Two Marange brothers were yesterday spared jail after attacking a policeman who had cuffed one of the siblings. Hosea Marange, 41, assaulted the cop all over the body while he was being arrested for alleged robbery. He was handed a conditional discharge after being convicted of the offence of assaulting a police officer….
MUTARE – A Penhalonga hooker has been fined for attacking a client for pestering her for more sex than he had paid for. Gamuchirai Chikata was slapped with a $20 fine or an alternative 20-day jail term. She allegedly stabbed her client on the chest and slashed his left arm with a broken bottle. She…
HARARE – David Whitehead Textiles (Private) Limited has filed a lawsuit against the Agricultural Bank of Zimbabwe Limited (Agribank), seeking to save its property it offered as security on behalf of a cotton company that was advanced a $5,8 million loan by the bank. In the application, David Whitehead Textiles (Private) Limited, which is represented…
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe lecturer and TV panellist Dr Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura has died. Chivaura died yesterday at the Avenues Clinic in Harare. Chivaura was a well-known Zanu PF apologist who espoused controversial views on his soporific ZBC TV programme Zvavanhu. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe’s Department of English…
HARARE – The City Fathers and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) should do motorists a favour by removing street children begging from busy roads. The street children, most of them barely five years old, are so daring that they beg amidst moving cars, lorries and buses, which pose a real danger to their lives. [GoogleAd]…
