HARARE – Police officers have joined scores of illegal gold diggers hacking away at the verdant hills in remote Matabeleland South, glimpsing an opportunity to shore up their meagre salaries, but inflicting an intractable problem of environmental degradation. Speaking in the Senate last week, MDC Senator for Matabeleland South, Sithembile Mlotshwa, called on government to…
HARARE – Zinara still owes Harare City Council (HCC)road maintenance money from 2015, HCC has revealed. Environmental management committee minutes, reveal councillors bitterly complained that Zinara had promised them funds for road maintenance but did not deliver. “Harare City Council expected no less than $15 million for the 2017 allocation, considering the state of the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has, for the past few weeks, been telling all and sundry that they will reduce roadblocks on the country’s roads and highways and that the law did not permit their members to throw spikes at moving vehicles. However, nothing has changed. In fact, the roadblocks have multiplied and…
EDITOR — One thing that has become patently and painfully clear to me is a lesson from history: the peaceful masses are irrelevant. The saying that goes, “Evil only flourishes when good men do nothing,” becomes crystal clear when looking back over Zimbabwe’s history and the current complete and utter mess that Zanu PF have…
HARARE – A consotium led by Arkein Industrial Holdings (Arkein) and Mauritius-based DBF Capital (DBF) is spearheading the construction of a Rand 4 billion (about $300 million) titanium oxide plant in South Africa (SA)’s Richards Bay industrial zone to feed the region’s paint market. While the former is headed by Zimbabwean-born businessman Donovan Chimhandamba, the…
HARARE – Irrepressible opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai — the only politician to beat President Robert Mugabe in an election hands down — says he has fully recovered from his recent illness and is champing at the bit to take Zanu PF head-on in the make-or-break 2018 national elections. This comes as the resurgent MDC leader…
HARARE – Embattled acting Zanu PF chairperson for Mashonaland Central Dickson Mafios says party members who recently demonstrated against him and his brother Saviour Kasukuwere included “desperate” followers of former vice president Joice Mujuru. He also told the Daily News yesterday that he was still firmly in charge in the burning province despite the ongoing…
HARARE – Opposition leaders intending to form a grand coalition against President Robert must be cautious of being infiltrated by Zanu PF, Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) interim co-leader Rugare Gumbo has warned. Under pressure from long-suffering Zimbabweans, opposition parties — including Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC and Joice Mujuru’s newly-formed National People’s Party (NPP) — are currently…
MUTARE – Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) here has called for a maximum security prison to house dangerous inmates after the opening of a permanent High Court in Mutare. ZPCS officer commanding Manicaland Didymus Chimvura told Chief Justice Luke Malaba after a tour of a High Court complex under construction that his organisation was…
HARARE – The driver of a South Africa-registered haulage truck that crashed with a bus at Nyamatikiti River near Chaka in Chirumhanzu, killing dozens of passengers, was charged with culpable homicide in an indictment unsealed on Friday. The indictment contained 20 counts of vehicular homicide against Regis Mungwari, 29, who was driving to Harare, according…
