HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Cabinet Ministers with immediate effect. The appointments are as follows: CABINET MINISTERS 1. Patrick Chinamasa – Minister of Finance and Economic Planning 2. Obert Mpofu – Minister of Home Affairs and Culture 3. Air Marshall Perence Shiri – Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement 4. Dr Lazarus…
HARARE – Former first lady Grace Mugabe has a couple of questions to answer to the authorities over how she amassed assets in foreign lands as the net closes in on individuals and corporates who stashed their wealth in foreign lands. On Tuesday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave a three-month deadline to individuals and corporates that…
HARARE – Grace Mugabe is now liable for prosecution in South Africa over the assault of model Gabriella Engels in August, legal experts have said. They told the Daily News yesterday that the mere fact that Grace is no longer the country’s first lady creates the risk of having the immunity granted by the South…
HARARE – The inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week has seen the costs of United States dollars on the parallel market tumbling down by 30 percent while banks have started disbursing the elusive greenback to depositors. A survey done yesterday revealed that US$100 now cost the equivalent of $130 in bond notes on the…
HARARE – The corruption storm raging around former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday sucked in more victims who were denied bail by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. The former Home Affairs minister is currently awaiting commencement of trial on December 8 while behind bars. Yesterday, Local Government, Public Works and National Housing deputy director valuations Rejoice…
HARARE – The family of the late former minister of Health Timothy Stamps who died on Sunday aged 81, has asked for privacy while they mourn their father. Stamps died of a lung infection at Borrowdale Trauma Centre in Harare, and was subsequently declared a national hero. Traditionally, national heroes have their funerals taken over…
HARARE – Two Harare men appeared in court on Wednesday, facing charges of raping their respective daughters. They were denied bail when they appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. The fathers, whose identities cannot be revealed to protect the daughters, were both represented by Bothwell Ndlovu. [GoogleAd] They were remanded in custody to December 12…
HARARE – Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Olivia Muchena has demanded the High Court to dismiss an application filed by Parliament in which the National Assembly is seeking to recover $32 000 advanced to the former parliamentarian as a motor vehicle loan. Muchena is part of over 15 other legislators who were dragged to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Transport ministry is in the eye of a storm over the continued use of “informal tenders” to procure key road rehabilitation materials, which are above the $500 000 threshold for uncapped expenditures. A local company, Pushduck Enterprises (Private) Limited (Pushduck), has raised complaints about departmental practices, which might be prejudicial to the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is not considered a least developed country (LDC), according to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). African Capacity Building Foundation’s knowledge expert, Barassou Diawara, said for a country not to be considered an LCD, its gross national income per capita must be $1 035 or more….
