HARARE – Three council officers are facing criminal abuse of office charges after they reportedly demanded a $260 bribe from a businessman to process his shop licence. The trio — Jabulani Madoda, 45, Innocent Marimo, 49, and 32-year-old Tonderai Nemasango — appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande last week, who remanded them out custody to…
HARARE – The current political infighting in South Africa (SA) – and other countries such as Zimbabwe – is exacerbating Africa’s woes, and political instability tag or perception, a leading continental lobby group has said. This also comes as Ladislas Agbesi’s Pan African Business Forum (PABF) has said Pretoria must recognise its role as a…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s deputies — Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko — are engaged in a cold war of sorts over the emotive succession debate notwithstanding the camaraderie they exhibit in public, the Daily News can report. No matter how hard they try to conceal the antagonism towards each other, events suggests that the…
HARARE – Government has gazetted a new law which jails people who falsify information on proof of residence during the voter registration exercise which the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is expected to open to the members of the public ahead of next year’s crucial vote. The new regulations come as legal experts and civic society…
HARARE – The MDC boycott of by elections has given President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF reason to frustrate calls for reforms because little known opposition parties who have been participating in these mini polls have given them legitimacy, analysts say. This is despite concerted effort by the MDC and other opposition parties that have…
HARARE – After the voter apathy which marred the recent Chiwundura by-election, analysts have said electoral reforms are the only way to increase voter interest in 2018 elections. In the by-election, a large number of people refrained from casting ballots, with the voter turnout rate at 22 percent. Zanu PF’s Brown Ndlovu polled 9 426…
HARARE – Malaria continues to wreak havoc in Zimbabwe, with the Health ministry recording an increase in new cases of the deadly disease. The country has continued to record an increase in Malaria cases, with over 89 000 infections and 151 deaths recorded in the first nine weeks of 2017, the ministry revealed. This has…
BULAWAYO – Controversial former leader of Chipangano, an alleged Zanu PF terror group, Jim Kunaka, has waded into the ruling party’s succession matrix, dismissing suggestions that President Robert Mugabe must name his successor. This comes as the succession debate is heating up, with some war veterans recently calling for Mugabe to address the issue, which…
HARARE – A United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund report has indicated that 55 percent of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa — including Zimbabwe — are among children, adolescents and women. The trend has been described as worrisome by experts, who said communities and government need to do more to reduce the incidences, especially…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s mid-term fiscal policy review is “empty” and an “insult” to long-suffering Zimbabweans, which proves an admission of leadership failure, opposition parties said. Presenting his half year fiscal review in Parliament last week, the Treasury chief highlighted that government’s expenditure on foreign trips and salaries for the bloated civil service…
