HARARE – Chief Justice Luke Malaba has dismissed an appeal by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko challenging the High Court ruling dismissing his bid for rescission of judgment in his staggering $50 million defamation claim against Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — the publishers of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend…
HARARE – A trial in the United States has opened a can of worms, with a former lawmaker accusing a prominent Chicago developer of paying kickbacks to high-ranking officials in Zimbabwe in the hope of starting a lucrative diamond mine operation. In a lengthy cross-examination during his trial on Tuesday, Mel Reynolds, a twice-convicted felon…
HARARE – The burial of the late vice president Joseph Msika’s widow, Maria, is set for today at the National Heroes Acre. The body of the national heroine was flown back to Harare yesterday after it was taken to her rural home in Chiweshe and later Bulawayo. She was declared a national heroine after First…
HARARE – Government will launch a crackdown on social media as part of a campaign against fake news and the spreading of rumours on shortages of basic goods and foreign exchange meant to cause alarm in the country, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said yesterday. “We will take necessary measures to counter those nefarious activities. We…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will be providing Vaseline at biometric voter registration centres to help those whose fingers have areas on their thumbs where prints were missing or skin appeared mottled due to rough skin. This comes as the number of those who cannot have biometric data captured because of unreadable fingerprints is…
HARARE – Water supplies have been cut off at several compounds in Zimbabwe’s capital, as municipal officials tried to force defaulting ratepayers to pay outstanding debt to Harare City Council (HCC). Residents in Mbare, Mufakose, Highfield and Budiriro have been the latest victims of disconnections with some having their water meters completely removed. Community Water…
PENHALONGA – Government – through its Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) – could relocate more people in Manicaland province to pave way for diamond mining, if it secures claims to the Tsvingwe area. Tsvingwe villagers do not have title deeds to the land. Diamonds were reportedly discovered in Penhalonga – just outside Mutare – in…
HARARE – When the inclusive government crumbled following the disputed July 2013 elections, then MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti — who had just vacated the Finance ministry portfolio when his party lost in the polls — said; “ You can rig an election but you cannot rig the economy.” At that time, many thought Biti’s pronouncement…
EDITOR — It made sad reading that prison inmates have claimed an acute shortage of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) in the country’s prisons and correctional facilities is now threatening their survival. According to press reports government is failing to provide medication in prisons and correctional facilities threatening the lives of many prisoners who suffer from HIV…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is “far” from improving its ‘ease of doing business’, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said, as it once again ranked the nation among countries with poor global competitiveness in its latest ratings. It said actually, the prevailing economic environment has “made it harder” to do business in the investment-starved country. While…
