April 2017

HARARE – Gwanda magistrate Wilfed Mafios Moyo will next Tuesday deliver his ruling on a freedom bid filed by former MDC councillor in Gwanda, Themba Nyoni, charged with insulting President Robert Mugabe. The 49-year-old had been put on trial at the Gwanda Magistrates’ Courts on Tuesday facing charges under Section 33 (2) (b) of the…

HARARE – Lawmakers will start debating the proposed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 1) Bill today, days after President Robert Mugabe’s appointment of Justice Luke Malaba as Chief Justice of Zimbabwe. This comes as Malaba is set to take judicial oath today. The proposed bill seeks to restore sweeping powers to the president to singularly…

HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has concurred with sentiment from the public that the legal costs in Zimbabwe are too high. Debating a report of the portfolio committee on Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on Judicial Laws Amendment (Ease of Settling Commercial and Other Disputes) Bill, Mnangagwa said he shared the concerns of the…

HARARE – A tumultuous sitting of both houses of Parliament concludes this afternoon, when MPs will meet for one final question period before leaving town for a one-month recess. Earlier, Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and Senate president Edna Madzongwe were all out putting a final spin on the whirl of legislative activity…

HARARE – Feathers are set to fly at today’s Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare, after the party’s volatile Masvingo province defied President Robert Mugabe’s appeal for calm yesterday — demonstrating against under-fire national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. The massive protest also targeted regional party bigwigs who are perceived to belong to the Generation 40 (G40)…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s severe cash crisis is worsening, forcing banks to reduce further their daily withdrawal limits — in addition to suspending dispensing money through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). This prompted analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday to say that this confirmed that the local economy was dying and “hurtling towards total collapse”….

HARARE – The Health ministry has detected insecticide-resistant mosquitoes in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, raising concern that malaria could become difficult to control. This comes as government recently issued a malaria alert after a total of 154 malaria cases were reported throughout the country as of March 26, 2017. Giving oral evidence to Parliament’s Health portfolio…

HARARE – Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri has found that Harare City Council (HCC) did not account for $208 million of public funds in the 2012 financial year. In her 2015 local authorities report tabled in the National Assembly recently, Chiri reported that the majority of councils’ audited financials were not up to date, with HCC…

HARARE – Government has raised $35 million to fix roads and bridges damaged by floods. Senior principal director in the Office of the President and Cabinet Ozias Hove said the funds were raised through the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme. This comes after Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere declared Harare’s roads a state of disaster as…