HARARE – Police indiscriminately arrested people and allegedly set their dogs on them after conducting door-to-door raids in the Harare suburbs of Mabvuku, Zimre Park and Epworth in the aftermath of Monday’s riots, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. Human rights lawyers who appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts representing the suspected 105 rioters spoke of…
WAR veterans have claimed that President Robert Mugabe has surrounded himself with a group of liars who pretend to love him while their motives are to destroy the ruling party. Speaking at a press conference in Harare on Tuesday, Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson Douglas Mahiya said the problem the country is…
HARARE – As Zimbabweans took heed of calls to protest yesterday — many people had challenges accessing their Whatsapp on mobile phones, prompting opposition political parties to declare that government had jammed the services. Former Information and Technology minister Nelson Chamisa told the Daily News yesterday that the interference with mobile networks is not coincidental…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said Zimbabwe did not lose $15 billion in diamond revenue as claimed by President Robert Mugabe. Chinamasa, a long-time ally of Mugabe whose tenure at the country’s Treasury has been full of turmoil, told the BBC this week that it was not money missing or stolen but an…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s administration has made a dramatic U-turn on nurses’ salaries promising to pay them their dues tomorrow instead of next week as previously scheduled. Government workers have been on strike since Tuesday over unpaid salaries because of a chronic cash shortage that has hit the country in recent months and has…
HARARE – Viva Zimbabwe leader and former Zanu PF youth leader William Gerald Mutumanje aka Acie Lumumba, who is accused of insulting President Robert Mugabe, has been freed on $400 bail. Lumumba, who is facing charges of undermining the authority of or insulting the president as defined in Section 33 (2) (b) of the Criminal…
HARARE – In a clampdown that has been described as fascist, the Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says people found in possession of, or sharing anti-government messages on social media platforms using their mobile phones will be arrested. Following yesterday’s hugely successful stay away, the government-controlled telecommunications regulator, which falls under the…
HARARE – The MDC formations have told President Robert Mugabe to read the writing on the wall and start packing his bags as Zimbabweans have had enough of his 36-year-old rule. A crippling stay away resulted in the closure of schools, hospitals, banks and other services yesterday as hungry Zimbabweans took heed to the call…
HARARE – While Zimbabweans have been commended for collectively heeding the call to stay away from work, shut down their businesses as well as close shops, there is need to continue with this wave of protests until President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF government resign or call for an early election, political and social…
HARARE – Beverage companies could soon pay a recycling levy on pets and kaylites as government moves to curb post-consumer waste, the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has said. Ema held a second consultative meeting with beverage companies on Tuesday to work on modalities of how a recycling levy will be charged on the distribution of…
