FC Platinum coach Norman Mapeza is targeting a strong finish to their Caf Champions League flirtation when they host Tunisian giants Esperance at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow. The platinum miners endured a difficult campaign in the African Safari where they remain winless in five matches they have played managing two draws and three defeats. [GoogleAd] They…
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has set the cat among the pigeons in his party, after he recently suggested that one of the MDC’s three posts of vice president should be reserved for a woman, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This has agitated some of his ambitious lieutenants who intend to go for the posts when…
Former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko is now planning to approach the courts to force the government to release his terminal benefits. [GoogleAd] This comes one-and-a-half years after his inglorious exit from the government, which was triggered by a stunning military coup in November 2017 — which also ended former president Robert Mugabe’s lengthy and ruinous rule….
Glen View 8 home industry complex in Harare was, this Tuesday, gutted by yet another fire whose cause is still unknown. The fires, which have now become a yearly occurrence, destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of furniture and equipment. [GoogleAd] There have been 13 fires that have so far broken out at the complex over the…
IDEAL Zimbabwe leader Tinashe Jonasi was yesterday charged with undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s authority after he reportedly insulted the leader during a television interview. [GoogleAd] Jonasi, 42, was represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights member Nontokozo Tachiona when he appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa and was remanded in custody to today pending a…
Cyclone Idai, which has reportedly killed 10 people in Mozambique is expected to hit the country this evening. In a statement, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned that the tropical cyclone which is currently moving at a speed of 5km per hour is expected to start moistening the country’s dry atmosphere beginning with the eastern highlands….
Dozens of Zanu PF vehicles that were dished out to provinces ahead of the 2018 elections have become a bone of contention in the second largest city amid reports that those who were given the vehicles have personalised them ahead of party work, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] The President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led party acquired a…
Senior doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals yesterday narrated to the minister of Health Obadiah Moyo, of the horrors and deaths occurring everyday at major hospitals because of acute shortages of drugs and hospital consumables. The medical practitioners yesterday embarked on a public protest demanding government’s speedy intervention citing that the situation has forced them to…
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has petitioned Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, demanding compensation over a Chitungwiza man who was shot dead during the January fuel price hike protests. [GoogleAd] According to a letter dated February 22, 2019, the organisation said it intends to sue the ministry over the death. The letter was also copied…
A Marange woman has been jailed eight years for fatally assaulting her son after he was turned back home for not having a pen. High Court judge Justice Hlekani Mwayera caged Lydia Kahwema for an initial 12 years before suspending four years. [GoogleAd] It was the State’s case that Kahwema violently attacked her 13-year-old son, who…
