MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi says he will lodge an appeal with the High Court challenging his conviction and sentence. This comes after Komichi was fined $200 for disrupting electoral proceedings during the announcement of presidential election results. [GoogleAd] Komichi was accused of invading the podium at the Harare International Conference Centre where he grabbed…
Rights lawyers have filed an urgent chamber application in the High Court challenging government’s decision to suspend the operations of Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Trust (Cotrad), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO). This comes after government, through the office of the Masvingo district administrator (DA), last week told Cotrad to cease operations pending investigation into…
Former Health and Child Care deputy minister Edwin Muguti is set to lose his house over rental arrears owed to Joyce Mako-Mashaninga. Last year, the court handed a default judgment after Muguti failed to defend Mako-Mushaninga’s suit after failing to pay over $13 600 in rental arrears to his former landlord. [GoogleAd] Muguti, a renowned…
TN LIVESTOCK Trust (Private) Limited (TN) is set to re-open a cattle bank in Featherstone, in a move that will recognise cattle as a bankable asset. [GoogleAd] In a notice, TN — named after its founder, financier and social innovator Tawanda Nyambirai — said a minimum of $25 million will be set aside at Steward…
THE Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz)’s president has died. Matthew Chimbghandah, who died after a short illness, joined Emcoz as president in 2017 after being a human resources executive of OK Zimbabwe for many years. [GoogleAd] A variety of committees have sent their condolences messages to the bereaved families. “Emcoz executive committee, services committee, labour…
THERE are real fears that both the ruling party and the country could be entering a new phase of significant political turmoil leading to the 2023 national elections, the Daily News can report. This comes after former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, pictured, warned at the weekend that he may soon…
A parliamentary panel has proposed that Zimbabwe’s 39 embassies across the globe be empowered to issue national documentation such as IDs and passports to migrants to decongest the Registrar General’s office. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Home Affairs has proposed that Zimbabwean embassies be allowed to process births and deaths, marriages, citizenship, national…
THE government of Japan in partnership with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Zimbabwe last week commissioned four fully furnished schools it built in Gokwe North under the “Every child in school” joint programme, bringing the total number of schools the mission has built in the area to 18. Japanese deputy head of mission…
The Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) yesterday said it was working closely with mobile network operators (MNOs) to avoid service blackout in areas devastated by Cyclone Idai. This comes as rescue workers began a massive relief operation in Manicaland yesterday following the cyclone that killed at least 31 people, sent thousands into…
Zimbabwe is engaging transaction advisers in deals to attract foreign investment in its larger State-owned enterprises (SOEs), which are undergoing reforms to make them more competitive, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Ncube began a new round of reforms when he became minister in September aimed at streamlining its lumbering SOEs by introducing private capital, curbing…
