HARARE – Jet-setting Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo, pictured below, was yesterday granted $2 000 bail by the High Court. Chivayo had been condemned to remand prison after he was denied bail at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Monday on grounds that he was a flight risk. Chivayo and his company — Intratek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited…
HARARE – The results announced by the electoral commission reflect ill-preparedness and gross inaccuracies, the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has said. President Emmerson Mnangagwa received 50,8 percent of the vote while main opposition challenger Nelson Chamisa received 44,3 percent. The ERC said there was potential manipulation or fraud. [Adz] “The results announced expose disturbing…
BULAWAYO – A resident has sued the city of Bulawayo in the High Court over its failure to provide potable water for Pelandaba West residents. Nylon Gatsheni, 50, argued failure to provide water will cause an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health, according to the lawsuit filed by his lawyers Dube Banda, Nzarayapenga…
HARARE – A Harare court yesterday dismissed claims by self-styled Harare prophet Gathry Chiredzero (aka Madzibaba Guthry) that he was denied access to liver cancer treatment by the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services after prison health experts examined him and discovered that he was free of the disease. Madzibaba Gathry, 40, who is suspected of…
HARARE – The recently-held harmonised elections have left Zimbabwe as a divided nation. The governing Zanu PF won a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly while incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa narrowly beat MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa in the presidential ballot. Chamisa has disputed the outcome of the presidential poll and is expected to launch…
HARARE – The arrest of former Finance minister Tendai Biti has triggered widespread condemnation of the on-going crackdown by government, targeting MDC Alliance leaders. Biti had gone into hiding to escape the authorities who launched a manhunt on those perceived to have been behind the violence that rocked central Harare mid last week. He was…
HARARE – US President Donald Trump has signed into law new sanctions against Zimbabwe on Wednesday, ending hopes for better ties with the Trump administration. The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act of 2018, which amends the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, was introduced into Congress on March 22. It was…
MUTARE – The heightening tensions in Zimbabwe over the disputed July 30 elections have betrayed Zanu PF and the MDC Alliance’s lack of appreciation of democracy, a prominent cleric has said. Retired Anglican bishop Sebastian Bakare told the Daily News yesterday that the protagonists in the evolving political impasse have a duty to save the…
BULAWAYO – Former Zipra intelligence supremo, Dumiso Dabengwa has sensationally claimed that Zimbabwe is now under military rule. A former Home Affairs minister and leader of Zapu, Dabengwa alleged yesterday that crucial national decisions were being made by the military. “After the November coup, we have actually been living under military rule,” he said. “The…
HARARE – Tendai Biti — a senior MDC Alliance official — was arrested in the early hours of Thursday before he was made to appear in court later in the day, facing charges of violating the Electoral Act. He was released on bail. A fierce critic of President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa, Biti was hauled…
