LONDON – Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Downing Street after the final result was announced. He said he would attempt to “steady the ship” over the coming weeks and months. He had…
KINSHASA – Embattled DR Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi, who last month quit the country, was sentenced to three years in jail on Wednesday over a real estate dispute. Katumbi was seen as the leading challenger to President Joseph Kabila in elections due to be held this year, but the sentence effectively makes him ineligible…
HARARE – Zanu PF bigwigs have been looting and corruptly distributing donated Chinese rice worth tens of millions of dollars to ruling party supporters since last year, a shameful development that has apparently contributed to increasingly strained relations between Harare and Beijing. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News yesterday that the Chinese were…
HARARE – As the economy continues to die, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday appealed to Zimbabweans to put aside their differences and work together in wooing investors from all corners of the globe to the country. He also reiterated government’s determination to continue engaging with the international community as well as Diasporans, as Harare seeks…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa was yesterday grilled in Parliament over the dire state of the economy, which has seen the desperate government introducing a cocktail of measures that it hopes will salvage the situation. The simmering public tension spilled into Parliament with MDC legislators interrogating Chinamasa on the recent decision to “ban” the…
HARARE – Police yesterday warned motorists from taking heed of a circulation on social media calling on them not to stop at roadblocks in protest. In a statement, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) through its spokesperson Charity Charamba, described the calls from the protest group going by the name “Tajamuka” as “offensive and alarming”. “Members of…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has said it will do everything within its means to preserve the country’s wildlife, following a Guruve duo that was sentenced to 11 years in prison each after being found in illegal possession of 16kg of ivory. Zimparks spokesperson Caroline Washaya-Moyo yesterday commended Guruve magistrate…
HARARE – The High Court yesterday freed on $1 000 bail each two Indian businessmen who are accused of raping a Zimbabwean woman at a hotel in Harare. High Court judge Garainesu Mawadze freed Krishna Satyanarayana Gandlur, 33, and Ravi Krishnan, 40, after the State admitted that its case was weak. As part of the…
HARARE – Former liberation war collaborators want to meet President Robert Mugabe to air their grievances which they say are not being given priority similar to that accorded to their war veterans counterparts. Apparently having been angered by their minister Tshinga Dube’s statements in Parliament recently that it is difficult to classify war collaborators, they are…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+) has called on government to intervene on faith-healing as it is likely to hinder progress made in response to HIV/Aids and may deter the country from achieving the 90-90-90 targets by 2020. The concerns were raised at a National Stakeholders Dialogue on Faith-Healing and…
