August 2017

HARARE – Cabinet ministers accused of poisoning Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have rubbished the allegations as ludicrous, saying their hands were clean. This comes as one of Mnangagwa’s loyalists, Energy Mutodi, sensationally claimed last week that Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa and Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, poisoned the vice president. The businessman-cum…

HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned to work after spending weeks away from his official duties following emergency surgery prompted by a suspected and alleged poison attack at a youth interface rally in Gwanda early this month. Mnangagwa made appearances at his Munhumutapa Offices and New Government Complex on Monday before going home…

HARARE – A Harare man has relived the horrific moment his eye was gouged out during a vicious police attack, saying he was savaged while trying to save his wife from verbal and physical abuse by the cops. Livingstone Zvimba, Tendai Masungambira, Sunday Nyaude, Khululekani Dale, Evans Mashonganyika — all members of the Police Reaction…

HARARE – Amid spirited efforts to avert an implosion in the MDC party resulting from the fallout over his decision to forge an alliance with seven other opposition leaders, former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai has spoken for the first time on claims that he fathered a child with a Bulawayo woman, the Daily News can…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest trade union federation, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has slammed government for denying Kwese TV — owned by Strive Masiyiwa — a broadcasting licence. This comes after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) has declared the Econet Group’s pay television service, Kwese TV, illegal and warned the company against providing…

HARARE – War veterans and opposition parties yesterday poured scorn on the planned solidarity march with  First Lady Grace Mugabe scheduled for Harare today, after she whipped a South African model with an electric cord who was waiting with two friends in a luxury hotel suite to meet one of her adult sons. Today’s demonstration,…

HARARE – A Marondera white farmer, Stephen Worswick, has dragged deputy Foreign Affairs minister Edgar Mbwembwe to the High Court accusing him of grabbing his farm at gunpoint. Worswick also wants Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora to give him an offer letter for his Chipunga Farm. In the application, Worswick cited Mbwembwe, the chief lands officer…

  BULAWAYO – Brothels are multiplying in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, with concerned city fathers mulling a campaign to clampdown on the menace. A survey by the Southern News found that numerous town houses in downtown Bulawayo have been converted into brothels or “lodges”, as owners seem to capitalise on the apparently lucrative oldest profession….

HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has ignored calls to postpone the launch of the party’s alliance in Bulawayo on Saturday — in a move which is likely to worsen cracks in the labour-backed party — whose provincial leadership wants the event postponed indefinitely. Saturday’s MDC Alliance rally follows the launch of an alliance pact…