The Mutare City Council forensic land audit report covering 2007 to March 2018 has exposed rampant corruption in the valuation of stands in the local authority with low density stands selling for as little as 60 cents per square metre. Those who seemed to have benefitted were sitting councillors and other council officials who bought or…
Psychotherapist Viktor Frankl emerged from the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to found a new dogma of existential analysis which he named logotherapy and explained in his seminal book. [GoogleAd] He survived two of the worst Nazi death camps, Auschwitz and Dachau, spending his time trying to establish what made a person survive. The…
An outstanding Zimbabweans robotics major in Sweden is afraid to come back home to use his knowledge for the development of his motherland fearing persecution because of his links to the under-fire opposition MDC. [GoogleAd] Cornelius Sagandira, an MDC activist who is nephew to the party’s Makoni Central constituency top official Patrick Sagandira, told the Daily…
HARARE – Influential Americans have expressed disappointment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government for failing to live up to their promises that were made when the country’s former leader, Robert Mugabe, was ousted from power through a military coup in November 2017. [GoogleAd] This comes as President Donald Trump has just extended sanctions against Zimbabwe by…
Miffed ruling Zanu PF bigwigs yesterday told off the United States of America (USA) after its president Donald Trump extended sanctions on Zimbabwe by another year on Monday. [GoogleAd] In extending the sanctions, Trump accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF government of not instituting broad political, economic and rights reforms to necessitate the removal…
HARARE – Sweeping proposals seeking to reform the prison system have sailed through Cabinet, in a legislative victory that could boost prisoner rehabilitation efforts. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country’s 46 prisons are plagued with congestion and shortages of everything from food to uniforms, with prison authorities struggling to feed almost 20 000 inmates due to…
ZANU PF bigwigs in Mashonaland West province are planning a clampdown on errant members of the youth league who have been accused of abusing social media to attack the party leadership. [GoogleAd] This comes as fresh divisions have emerged in former president Robert Mugabe’s province — raising fears among senior party officials that factionalism reminiscent…
Government will on Friday convene a meeting here to help cover damages suffered by business in Bulawayo during the fuel price hike riots, with the destruction caused by protesters described as a catastrophe for the economy. [GoogleAd] After surveying the damage in the second city last month, the inter-ministerial committee pledged a US$20 million relief…
Some local consumer prices marginally fell this week for the first time in months as declining costs for foreign exchange offset rising prices after the central bank ditched the fanciful greenback bond note peg. [GoogleAd] This comes after Zimbabwe’s quasi currency known as bond notes was no longer deemed 1:1 with the trade-weighted US dollar, with…
The MDC Alliance will hold its primary elections on May 24-26, Nelson Chamisa said yesterday — a vote he promises will be free and fair with a democratic and rigorous process where candidates will be nominated by the lower party structures. [GoogleAd] Chamisa, who seized power after founding MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai lost his valiant…
