HARARE – National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) leader Sten Zvorwadza was yesterday removed from remand in a case he is alleged to have threatened to burn a local five-star hotel. Zvorwadza was removed from remand by Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba after considering that the State witnesses were not availing themselves for court. She advised…
HARARE – A Parliament committee wants to amend a law governing the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) to whittle down the Higher Education minister’s powers. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Higher Education chairperson Peter Mataruse said they would introduce an amendment to the law so that the minister’s wide discretionary powers could be clipped. “We…
HARARE – A Harare man, Elton Nyamudahondo, suspected of printing and supplying fake $5 bond notes was busted on Saturday, a Harare court heard yesterday. The 33-year-old — who produced $600-plus of the counterfeit currency — was charged with possession of articles for criminal use when he appeared before Harare magistrate Tilda Mazhande. Prosecutor Stylon…
HARARE – Recent comments by President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace in which they have rubbished prospects of appointing a successor to take over from the aged leader indicate a covert plan for the latter to succeed her husband if Zanu PF wins the 2018 elections, analysts contend. Mugabe celebrated his 93rd birthday last…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe showed both his advanced age and human side when he told thousands of Zanu PF supporters who gathered in Matobo at the weekend for his 93rd birthday celebrations how the deaths of his parents and siblings had left him feeling very lonely. While most thankful to his creator for his…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s provincial election results for Masvingo, in which previously sacked regional chairperson and alleged Team Lacoste kingpin Ezra Chadzamira trounced Generation 40-linked (G40) bigwig Mutero Masanganise has presented the warring ruling party with a massive headache — what to do next. As matters stand, President Robert Mugabe and his senior party lieutenants…
HARARE – Local clerics have slammed Friday’s xenophobic attacks on Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals in South Africa — demanding that their regional peers must intervene to force President Jacob Zuma’s government to stamp out the violence. The call comes as President Robert Mugabe’s government is holding crucial talks with their South African counterparts in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government last year exceeded its expenditure by a jaw-dropping $1,2 billion, with foreign travels chewing nearly $45 million, new figures reveal. Figures from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) released on Friday, showed that in the period running to November 2016, while government had budgeted to collect revenues amounting to…
HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC is embarking on a door-to-door voter mobilisation ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 harmonised elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said the party is looking to increase its voting numbers in 2018. “The MDC is geared to increase its voting numbers to at least three…
HARARE – Whether one agrees with President Robert Mugabe’s politics or not, it would take a particularly uncivil person to begrudge him for the fact that he has been blessed with a long life. Indeed, not many people get to his ripe old age and still be relatively healthy, and of sound mind, as he…
