September 2018

HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) has said it will apologise to Zimbabwe’s largest mobile telephone company Econet Wireless after municipal officials attempted to steal humanitarian aid meant to stem Zimbabwe’s deadliest cholera outbreak in a decade. Econet founder and executive chairperson Strive Masiyiwa blew the whistle on the attempted fraud after the telecommunications…

HARARE – Police have intensified their crackdown on drunken driving as part of the force’s bid to rid the country’s roads of errant drivers, a Cabinet minister has said. Addressing journalists during his first visit to police headquarters, Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema yesterday said the force needs more equipment such as breathalysers to deal…

HARARE – Most service stations in Harare have run dry with long queues emerging as the fuel crisis continues, despite Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya saying the sector is fully-funded. Mangudya told the Daily News yesterday that logistical challenges that were faced by the sector, coupled with high demand, had resulted in…

HARARE – Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede and eight other top bureaucrats were yesterday forced out of their jobs after reaching the compulsory age of retirement. The move marks the end of an era for Mudede, who is over 70 years old and has been in charge of all elections held in Zimbabwe since 1981, amid accusations…

HARARE – Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo yesterday indicated he wanted to approach the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) after the State threatened to tighten his criminal charges. Chivayo and his company Intratek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited are charged with fraud, money laundering and contravening two sections of the Exchange Control Act. Lewis Uriri, Chivayo’s legal counsel, presented an…

HARARE – A Harare court has ruled that former Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe was served with a legal notice of charges of absconding payment of debt after he had settled the amount and will ask that the certificate of service relating to the case be set aside or annulled. The court of appeal ruled…

HARARE – The late former Cabinet minister Kumbirai Kangai’s estate has been dragged to the High Court for failing to settle a $405 000 debt. The former Zanu PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister died on August 24, 2013 According to the High Court, the applicant was SG Musoni Consulting Engineers (Plaintiff) while the…

HARARE – Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has concluded its research on the state of schools’ preparedness to handle the cholera outbreak. It said schools are not safe and have no capacity to mitigate the deadly cholera outbreak. “Following the suspension of lessons at Glen View 5 Primary School in Harare, Artuz calls…

HARARE – The Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) has plans to float bills worth $75 million to purchase maize grain for the 2018 buying season. In a press statement yesterday, AMA and CBZ Holdings Limited invited investors to subscribe to the AMA Bills. “The Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) intends to issue AMA Bills of up to…