HARARE – Former Higher Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, has sensationally claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was planning to rig this month’s harmonised elections through the use of ballot papers designed to project a particular result. Moyo, a former Zanu PF politburo member who is currently in self-imposed exile in Kenya, said on Friday through micro-blogging…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa seems to be making inroads in what used to be Zanu PF strongholds where thousands of people are teeming to attend his rallies. Rural areas have for long been considered to be Zanu PF stronghold but due to the infighting in the ruling party and the widening of…
HARARE – Convicted armed robber Elijah Vumbunu, 40, had only served 14 years of his 40-year jail term when the gods smiled on him in April this year. Vumbunu walked out of the High Court smiling, after he was granted $50 bail pending appeal against the sentence and conviction he was given by the Mutare…
HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is now on the hunt for another auctioneer for the resort town of Victoria Falls and Hwange following the termination of Kudakwashe Chigoma’s services. Sheriff of the High Court, Macduff Madega, announced the removal of Chigoma in a Government Gazette published on Friday last week. The termination was…
HARARE – Unscrupulous dealers, masquerading as middlemen working for the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), are on the prowl. Reports say the fraudsters are using the MMCZ’s logo in their documents, to dupe unsuspecting clients. In terms of the law, the MMCZ is the sole marketer of all minerals, including diamonds, but with the…
HARARE – Veteran entertainer Emmanuel Manyika, 59, was laid to rest at Glen Forest Memorial Park, on the outskirts of Harare, on Saturday. Manyika died on Thursday morning on his way to Westend Hospital in Harare where he was scheduled to have an X-ray after complaining of a cold. He was popular for mimicking former…
CHITUNGWIZA – Chitungwiza residents are not happy with council’s engagement of debt collectors as they argue that it is unlawful. According to residents who spoke to the Daily News, many of the residents who are senior citizens and unemployed cannot pay the huge sums being demanded to settle their debts. The use of debt collectors…
HARARE – Harare City Fathers will confront “vagrants” in the Central Business District (CBD) who for years have been controlling some of the city’s parking bays. Harare City Council business committee chairperson Peter Moyo said council would like to take advantage of the lack of politicisation of certain parts of Harare and reclaim some of…
HARARE – ZANU PF is under the spotlight after the European Union (EU) said they will closely monitor the abuse of State resources during the campaign ahead of this month’s harmonised elections. The ruling Zanu PF party which recently splashed money when they bought several campaign vehicles and campaign regalia worth millions of dollars has…
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to hold talks in the Finnish capital Helsinki on July 16, the White House said on Thursday. The meeting, which comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow due in no small part to allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election,…
