HARARE – A number of State security agents have been retired from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration tightens its grip on power. See today’s Daily News for more. [Adz]
HARARE – A lawyer representing Harare businessman Bigboy Pachirera, who is demanding $2,9 million from retired police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, has revealed how he was approached with a settlement plan to return some of the property allegedly forcibly taken by the ex-police boss. After 23 years of enforcing law and order as the country’s top…
HARARE – High Court Judge Priscilla Chigumba will be sworn in as the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson after her appointment yesterday. Chigumba was informed of her appointment yesterday through a letter signed by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda. “His Excellency the president of Zimbabwe, having consulted with the Judicial…
HARARE – A self-confessed hit man who testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi has been arrested. Munyaradzi Mupazviripo — who had claimed in a police report lodged at Borrowdale Police Station that Tourism and Hospitality Industry permanent secretary…
HARARE – Former NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai — who is facing abuse of office charges — had his bail conditions relaxed when he appeared in court yesterday. Kangai is being accused of allegedly flouting tender procedures and prejudicing the State-owned telecommunications giant of over $17, 5 million. He faces twin charges of criminal…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday reserved judgment in an application filed by two MDC MPs Innocent Gonese and Fungayi Jessie Majome, who are challenging the passage of Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No. 1 in Parliament. Gonese is the MDC chief whip and MP for Mutare Central Constituency, while Majome is the MP…
HARARE – Trasnsport minister Joram Gumbo yesterday vowed to fire Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials and blacklist driving schools undermining the integrity of the driver’s licence by corruptly issuing the documents. A miffed Gumbo turned his guns on VID driving examiners who are issuing certificates of competency and provisional driver’s licences corruptly. Corruption at VID,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has won an award for the progress it has made towards eliminating malaria, a disease that still kills a child on the African continent every two minutes. Zimbabwe, Algeria, Comoros, Madagascar, the Gambia and Senegal achieved a reduction in the incidence of malaria of more than 20 percent from 2015 to 2016,…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has granted the few remaining white commercial farmers 99-year leases in a bid to enable them to secure financing from banks and to pay rent towards the compensation fund. This comes as evicted white farmers have reportedly tabled a $9 billion compensation claim before Mnangagwa for assets expropriated during…
HARARE – Land owners in Bubi Rural District Council could lose unused land to the local authority, which is seeking to fully utilise idle land as part of its turnaround drive, a new by-law showed yesterday. The by-laws, which govern both communal and resettlement land, will see stringent measures being taken against land users not…
