HARARE – More than 200 parents besieged Sunningdale 2 Primary School in Harare yesterday, baying for the blood of the institution’s deputy headmistress whom they accuse of practising satanism. The deputy headmistress, only identified as Marawa, strenuously denied the allegations when she was made to address the enraged parents who had gathered inside the school…
HARARE – The permanent secretary in the Office of President and Cabinet, Boniface Chidyausiku and Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Bindura North Kenneth Musanhi have been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay their water bills to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa). Zinwa has since filed two separate applications, in a…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, says he will reward President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a lucrative pension if he wins next month’s presidential race. “The only person who is going to support and who will want us to remain in power is Mnangagwa; he is going to get his pension and he will…
HARARE – Political and civil rights activists believe that the bomb explosion that rocked an otherwise sleepy city of Bulawayo on Saturday gives rise to serious questions around the ability of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s security handlers. Analysts canvassed by the Daily News yesterday said it was clear that there were lapses in the president’s security…
HARARE – Security for President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his first meeting following the Bulawayo bomb blast which he described as an attempt on his life by “my usual enemies” was ultra-tight at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) yesterday, with layers of protection surrounding the venue. Unprecedented security procedures were instituted at the HICC where…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced yesterday that it will exclude pictures of voters from the voters’ roll after the national elections management body received unspecified threats from aggrieved political parties at the weekend. This comes as Zec chairperson and High Court judge Priscilla Chigumba was subjected to abuse and vitriol by opposition…
HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has threatened to demonstrate against an alleged plot by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Zanu PF and opposition leader Thokozani Khupe to rig the forthcoming elections. Addressing party supporters in Kadoma on Sunday, Chamisa claimed there was an unholy alliance of his rivals including President Emmerson Mnangagwa…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has thrown out an application for refusal of further remand lodged by University of Zimbabwe vice chancellor Levi Nyagura charged with corruptly awarding a PhD to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Nyagura made the application before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba stating that he had been on remand for an unreasonably…
EDITOR — The problems we face in Zimbabwe can never be resolved by Zanu PF which created them in the first place. Zimbabwe is now one of Africa’s poorest and most repressed economies as reported in various media and economic indices. The key areas of economies which include rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency…
HARARE – The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) has fired 62 officers over corruption, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has revealed. In a report on the operations of Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) and VID, the committee said the officers were caught issuing certificates of fitness to non-roadworthy vehicles and provisional driver’s licences…
