HARARE – Five police officers who brutally assaulted a civilian, gouging out his eye in the process, have been jailed for three years. Livingstone Zvimba, Tendai Masungambira, Sunday Nyaude, Khululekani Dale, Evans Mashonganyika — all members of the Police Reaction Group — were convicted of assault by Harare magistrate Farai Gwitima. They were sentenced to…
HARARE – Companies and aid agencies wishing to drill boreholes must first get approval from council in a move aimed at avoiding usage of contaminated drinking water. Harare City Council health services director Prosper Chonzi told the Daily News yesterday that it was a measure aimed at curbing typhoid. Typhoid blood test Chonzi’s remarks come…
HARARE – Civil society organisations and family members of abducted political activist Itai Dzamara have demanded that the new President Emmerson Mnangagwa do everything in his power to bring him back to his family dead or alive. Dzamara was abducted by five unidentified men in March 2015 and bundled into an unmarked truck near his…
HARARE – With the forced resignation of former president Robert Mugabe, the citizens of Zimbabwe have a unique opportunity to break with the past and create a stable, peaceful, democratic, prosperous and globally competitive nation, former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has said. A former student leader who is recognised as one of Africa’s most…
HARARE – Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (in Dutch), or Anti-Personnel Landmines Detection Product Development (Apopo) — the charity famed for its use of specially-trained rats in landmine and tuberculosis detection — will begin clearing landmines in Zimbabwe’s largest wildlife conservation area and important elephant migration area, coinciding with new beginnings in the country. Apopo has…
HARARE – The engagement of external debt collection services by Chitungwiza municipality which claims to be owed about $60 million by residents and business combined is against the wishes of many ratepayers, council budget consultative meetings showed. The Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural Residents Association (Camera) said: “We also implore the council to consider the harsh…
HARARE – The State yesterday claimed that businessman Shingirayi Mukandi was murdered in a premeditated incident that was made to look like an accident, a Harare court heard. Culpable homicide charges that were being levelled against Alfred Takudzwa Machipisa and his brother Fanwell Lloyd were altered to murder charges but their bail was not revoked….
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it is on course to biometrically register seven million citizens ahead of the 2018 elections. By this Monday, the commission had registered three million voters. The total voters registered to date stands at 3 152 694 with less than a month before the end of the biometric…
HARARE – It is an understatement to say that Zimbabwe’s economy is limping following years of disastrous policies and lack of strategic leadership, but just as well, Zimbabweans united recently to manage former president Robert Mugabe out of power after 37 years of economic ruin. Very soon, President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be announcing his first…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has indeed hit the ground running, issuing a chilling warning yesterday to individuals and corporates that externalised foreign currency to return the money within the next three months or face the full wrath of the law, the Daily News can report. In a statement, Mnangagwa revealed that Operation Restore Legacy…
