HARARE – Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) company secretary Mathlene Mujokoro has been inexplicably appointed acting chief executive in the aftermath of Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa’s recent suspension. The hapless engineer’s suspension came as Wilfred Ramwi’s board had resolved to “censure her for the parastatal’s losses under financial deals cut by Simon Taranhike and others”, and the…
HARARE – Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo says he could have completed the 100 megawatt (MW) Gwanda solar project in eight months had it not been for the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board’s intransigence, documents show. The development also comes as the Intratrek Zimbabwe (Intratrek) founder has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he had completed about…
HARARE – At the age of 18, budding Afro-jazz musician Princess Makunzva is in love with her nyonga-nyonga mbira instrument and she is unmoved by negative criticism she endured often pertaining the traditional instrument. In modern society, some associate the primitive instrument with aspects of Shona culture, both sacred and secular. The instrument was used…
HARARE – Non-life insurers’ total assets grew 19,2 percent from $197,43 million as at December 31, 2016 to close 2017 at $235,42 million buoyed by good fortunes on the local bourse, official data revealed. In its report for the 12 months to December 31, 2017, the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) said the good fortune…
HARARE – Postal services provider Zimpost has partnered First Mutual Life (FML) Assurance to launch funeral assurance — PostLife Funeral Cash Plan. The product is underwritten by FML. The partnership, signed on March 1, 2018, entails the distribution of life assurance products under the Zimpost brand name Postlife, underwritten by FML. “The funeral cash plan…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s military will accept the outcome of the July 30 historic election, and will work with the winning candidate to ensure a stable transition, the Daily News can report. Putting to rest the most open threat to date that voting for the opposition would mean voting for civil war — a message that…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is prepared to go to jail or die fighting for a free and fair election, which he said was now unlikely due to an alleged “unholy” alliance between the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and the ruling Zanu PF. Addressing a media briefing in Harare yesterday, Chamisa said the…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Samuel Undenge yesterday tore into the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for ignoring graft cases involving millions of dollars while pursuing perceived rivals of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. Undenge is facing criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly awarding a media consultancy tender worth $12 650 to a company owned by…
MUTARE – Zanu PF has launched a terror campaign in Manicaland with cases of violence being recorded in Nyanga with fearsome intimidation and threats for a repeat of the 2008 violent clampdown of opposition sympathisers in Buhera. Zimbabwe Political Victims Foundation Trust chairperson Sekai Gombe said his organisation is assisting two assault victims — Paradzai…
HARARE – Councillors and officials at the Harare City Council (HCC) are still holding workshops outside the capital city in spite of a government directive forbidding them from funnelling ratepayers’ money on out-of-town junkets. The Harare Residents Trust (HRT) revealed to the Daily News yesterday that 61 council officials and councillors recently attended a workshop…
