HARARE – Controversial and high-living Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, was arrested at the crack of dawn at his home yesterday — in connection with his power deals which saw him being advanced $5 million before work commenced at one of the contentious projects. His lawyer Thabani Mpofu confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that Chivayo…
HARARE – Controversial Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, is staring down the barrel of a gun as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) and Parliament turn the heat on him in a bid to have his power deals cancelled. This comes as Zesa Holdings chief executive, Josh Chifamba, confirmed to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday…
HARARE – Joice Mujuru’s National People’s Party (NPP) has claimed that its party has been infiltrated at all levels by the ruling party in a bid to weaken it head of the key 2018 elections. Mujuru, who was expelled from Zanu PF in 2014 after being accused of plotting to topple former president Robert Mugabe,…
HARARE – After the budget presentation by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa that amended the indigenisation law to reassure investors, re-engaged with global lenders and curbed profligate spending — all issues on the top of the opposition wish-list — analysts said the opposition strategists must be scratching their heads. Chinamasa presented on Thursday Zimbabwe’s final budget…
HARARE – Government has decided on a plan of works to restore health centres and major hospitals, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. The government will also construct a number of rural health centres across the country. “The capital expenditure provision of $26,7 million will focus on rehabilitating central, provincial and district hospitals as well…
HARARE – Government cannot afford to employ teachers for Early Childhood Development (ECD), Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. “Government recognises the complementary role that parents play in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programmes. However, the takeover of management and financing of ECDs is clearly beyond government’s current capacity. “It is proposed that, the pending…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is the fifth among 10 countries surveyed where women endure public harassment ranging from staring, insults and wolf-whistling to being followed, groped or even raped, a survey by the charity ActionAid UK has revealed. The report comes at a time when the world is marking 16 Days of Activism Against Violence of…
HARARE – Washington Gezana, a professional driver, was the innocent victim of police brutality last March that saw him lose his eye. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Sunday about the horror experience, he said the scars will last forever. He has been fired from his job as a driver after his…
HARARE – With under seven months to go until the 2018 general election, the first bus tour to convert the growing number of unregistered voters in Kuwadzana East in Harare is underway led by the local MDC MP Nelson Chamisa. The whistle-stop tour is using open vans blaring Zimdancehall and digital music to attract the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s opposition political parties, especially the Morgan Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) — who have been in the trenches for the past several years trying to unseat former president Robert Mugabe and his party — must be panicking over the latest developments in the country. Mugabe — their longtime adversary — was…
