HARARE – Tongaat Hulett’s Zimbabwean unit, Hippo Valley (Hippo), says national sugar output is expected to decline to an average of 400 000 tonnes this year compared to 412 000 tonnes produced last year due to drought. Zimbabwe is experiencing an El Nino-induced drought that has left over 5,5 million people in need of food…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission’s (Zacc) move to flush out corrupt elements and possibly prosecute them is a welcome idea but we are by no means hoodwinked having travelled this path before. The path is familiar, the signs remain the same, and as the saying goes, a leopard does not change its spots, and…
MUTARE – A Mozambican national and his local counterpart arrested for illegal possession of a live pangolin left the court in roars of laughter as they somersaulted from a guilty plea to not guilty after having been informed that their crime carried a nine-year minimum mandatory jail term. Kheni Gimo Barai, 29, of Nyahangare Village…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has stepped up efforts to guard against the vicious Zika virus, a mosquito transmitted disease which can result in birth defects, through fumigation programmes across the country. Although the mosquito that transmits the virus is not found in Zimbabwe, Health minister David Parirenyatwa said the possibility of the mosquito coming to the…
MUTARE – A 34-year-old Penhalonga man has been caged six months for bedding and impregnating his orphaned 16-year-old cousin. Frank Tenderere of Tsvingwe Destiny, Penhalonga was convicted of incest on his own plea of guilt by magistrate Nyasha Kuture. [GoogleAd] Tenderere was sentenced to nine months behind bars but three were suspended on condition that…
HARARE – Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni is now back at work following the end of his 45-day suspension for insubordination. Manyenyeni was suspended by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere on charges that he had unprocedurally appointed ex-banker James Mushore as the capital city’s town clerk. [GoogleAd] When contacted for comment yesterday Manyenyeni said he will…
HARARE – One of President Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet ministers recently pleaded with Pope Francis to pray for Zimbabwe as the economic turmoil takes its toll yet again on long-suffering Zimbabweans. Health minister David Parirenyatwa, who last month attended a meeting on ending paediatric Aids, in the holy city of Vatican said he pleaded with the…
HARARE – After a period of relative calm and stability that obtained in the country during and just after the government of national unity era, desperate Zimbabweans are once again stampeding out of the country, mainly to South Africa, as the country’s economic decline escalates. Well-placed sources in Pretoria told the Daily News yesterday that…
HARARE – Politicians and businesspeople targeted by a current government anti-corruption blitz say it is nothing more than “a sham and factional hatchet job” targeted at perceived political opponents of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes in the wake of a hotly-disputed campaign by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to track down individuals, businesses, local…
HARARE – Feuding factions in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF are headed toward a violent confrontation, analysts warned yesterday, with war veterans backing Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa threatening physical disruption as a means of drawing attention to injustice if the VP fails as the nonagenarian’s successor. The emerging threats of physical disruption by war veterans…
