MUTARE – Crocked senior council employees are operating syndicates that are siphoning millions of dollars from the cash-strapped council, in one of the most elaborate schemes to emerge from the municipality, which is struggling to provide basic services to its residents. The Eastern News can exclusively report that there exists a well-choreographed corruption ring in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it does not intend to conduct a new delimitation of constituencies and wards for the 2018 elections. It will instead conduct the elections on the basis of the constituencies and wards gazetted ahead of the 2008 elections. Legal watchdog Veritas said Zec has run out of time…
HARARE – Attempts by Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC to have voter registration centres for Harare and Bulawayo deliberately increased to favour their political party are unacceptable under the Constitution and is an attempt to rig the elections, a Zanu PF legislator has said. This comes after MDC director of elections Murisi Zwizwai complained at a high-level…
HARARE – Protesting MDC youths clash with riot police in the Harare CBD on Wednesday.
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has extended interim coach Sunday Chidzambwa’s mandate to include the 2018 Kenya African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifiers. The Warriors will travel to Windhoek to face Namibia in the first leg this Sunday at the Sam Nujoma Stadium while the second leg is scheduled for the National Sports Stadium…
HARARE – Former chief sponsor of Miss Tourism Zimbabwe pageant, Bigtime Strategic Group, has dumped the pageant and is now channelling resources towards the staging of the Miss World Zimbabwe pageant, the Daily News has learnt. Miss Tourism Zimbabwe is being run by Barbara Mzembi while Miss World Zimbabwe is under Marry Chiwenga. Sources close…
HARARE – Preparations for comedian Alfred Kainga’s maiden show in Harare are at an advanced stage, organisers say. The United States-based comedian is scheduled to perform at Reps Theatre in the capital on September 22 for the first time courtesy of Xtra Time Entertainment. He will be supported by comedians Long John and Nqobizitha Dube…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is planning to plug the parallel financial markets and ease the current cash crisis by re-establishing Bureaux de Changes, more than 15 years after they were closed. Bureaux de Changes were shut down in December 2002 amid allegations that they were at the centre of illegal foreign…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister and Zimbabwe People First elder, Didymus Mutasa, made startling revelations this week which give some insights into the rot that has crept into our body politic. Mutasa boldly claimed that “he is not rich because unlike others, I did not even steal a penny when I left government and all…
HARARE – One of the country’s decorated liberation war icons, retired Air Vice Marshal Henry Muchena, is entangled in an acrimonious divorce with his wife of 31 years, who is claiming in court papers that the ex-Zanla fighter has abandoned his family and moved in with a “mistress” who used to be his subordinate while…
