Golden Grill workers vow to fight on BULAWAYO – Golden Grill Fast Foods (Golden Grill) workers — who controversially took charge of the food chain after its owner, Paul Evans, fled the country allegedly for fear of persecution by politicians — have vowed to maintain control of the business. In reaction to a series of…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa should not apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres because that is not his ‘‘baby’’ but that of his former boss, Robert Mugabe, analysts contend although others feel he lost a golden chance to apologise on behalf of his Zanu PF party. The sentiments were raised after Mnangagwa’s interview with the international…
BULAWAYO – Combative and vocal former war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda — who has been conspicuous by his silence — has been maintaining a low profile, leaving many here guessing about his political career, especially following the departure of former President Robert Mugabe. The controversial politician was censured and deposed as leader of the Zimbabwe…
HARARE – ZANU PF has been thrown into fresh turmoil as party officials aiming to represent the party in the forthcoming elections are engaged in a war of words. The Daily News can report that battle lines have been drawn in the ruling party ahead of the polls with incumbent Members of Parliament and councillors…
HARARE – Two commercial farmers in Marondera were fined $50 last week for assaulting their farm worker who wanted to take a day off. Stewart and David Tippet pleaded guilty to assault charges when they appeared before Marondera magistrate Ignatius Mhene on January 26. They were fined $50 for the altercation which left their farm…
HARARE – A self-confessed hit man has testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi. The official, Tourism and Hospitality Industry permanent secretary Bradah Maunganidze, has dismissed the allegations as lies. Munyaradzi Mupazviripo filed the damning report at Borrowdale Police…
HARARE – Poisonous snakes are on the rampage, particularly in the country’s snake belt regions, biting 320 people in the first four weeks of the year. Statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Care indicate that, on average, snakes are biting 12 people per day. Between January 1 and 26, one death was recorded…
HARARE – Fuel costs in Zimbabwe are still much higher than anywhere else in the region even after government decreed fuel retailers to cut the price of petrol and diesel by up to 7,5 percent after a tax cut, economic experts have said. High fuel prices have caused the costs of goods in the shops…
HARARE – Five Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) executives, charged for fraudulently transferring more than $2 million into bogus companies’ accounts in a shady loan repayment deal, have been accused of illegally buying foreign currency on the black market. The five, Simon Mudzingwa Taranhike, Shadreck Matengabadza, Stephen Matute, Givemore Tendai Kufa and Precious Murove are…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition political parties called for unity in the main MDC Alliance consummated to fight the mid-year presidential and parliamentary elections against President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The mooted coalition has been hit by severe turbulence, dogged by inter-party divisions, with two distinct groups — for and against the grouping — emerging. The main…
