HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is failing to remit funds to statutory bodies, with the amount due ballooning to over $200 million, its acting finance director Tendai Kwenda said. In a report presented to HCC’s joint human resources and finance committees, Kwenda said payment plans had been arranged with the owed. institutions — tax…
BULAWAYO – Former freedom fighter and Home Affairs minister — Dumiso Dabengwa — has warned war veterans against taking sides with politicians at the expense of their values which he said have been demeaned. Dabengwa was speaking at Lady Stanley Cemetery where he was a guest of honour at the tombstone unveiling of former freedom…
HARARE – As public anger against President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu PF continues to mount, radical pressure group Tajamuka/Sesijikile has filed a court suit seeking to have the increasingly frail nonagenarian removed from office over his alleged human rights abuses and violations of the country’s Constitution. This comes as renowned political scientist Stephen…
HARARE – World Politics professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (OAS) University, London, Stephen Chan, says the current wave of protests against President Robert Mugabe — including the social media campaign #ThisFlag — are not good enough to cause a revolution similar to the one witnessed in the Arabic countries (Arab Spring)….
HARARE – The protests that have rocked Zimbabwe — with the MDC and civic society plotting more — have rattled President Robert Mugabe, who has accused the organisers of ganging up to violently topple him from power. Addressing the crowd gathered at the national Heroes Day commemorations on Monday, 92-year-old Mugabe expressed worry that MDC…
HARARE – Suspected Zanu PF youths allegedly torched a house belonging to Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) activist, Passmore Simba, in Shamva, Mashonaland Central. ZPF spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire told the Daily News yesterday that Simba — the party’s ward four Shamva North coordinator — had his house razed down early Saturday while he was…
HARARE – Acting Prosecutor-General (PG)’s office has distanced itself from the case to compensate costs incurred in bringing jailed rapist Munyaradzi Kereke to justice, suggesting that suspended Johannes Tomana must be answerable. This comes as private prosecutor, Charles Warara — who for six years fought to have Kereke brought to justice — argued that according…
MOSCOW – Russia is ready to restore economic co-operation and other ties with Turkey, President Vladimir Putin has told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in St Petersburg. It is Mr Erdogan’s first foreign visit since an attempted coup last month. Mr Erdogan thanked Mr Putin, saying “your call straight after the coup attempt was…
HARARE – The Zanu PF faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which has been at the receiving end of savage mauling over the past few months by its avowed party foes, the Generation 40 (G40) group, is said to be fighting back with “malicious intent”. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has defended its controversial imports ban which it says will bring stability to its distressed manufacturing industries despite causing a rift with South Africa (SA). The imports ban, invoked through Statutory Instrument (SI64) in June by government, is a subject of negotiations with South Africa whose economy has been seriously hurt by…
