HARARE – Zimbabwe national team coach Sunday “Mhofu” Chidzambwa stuck with the majority of the players who have been doing duty lately when he announced a provisional 28-man strong squad for the final 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Congo later this month. [GoogleAd] The Warriors host the Congolese Red Devils at the National Sports…
HARARE – Members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday took Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya to task over the rising public debt and the activities of a vehicle established by the apex bank in 2014 to manage non-performing loans (NPLs). [GoogleAd] At yesterday’s PAC hearing that had to be adjourned to a later…
Fuel queues are getting even longer in the second city as government bureaucrats struggle to find a lasting solution to the crisis. Motorists are once again spending long hours in queues at pump stations dotted across the city, waiting to fuel their vehicles. Supplies have been erratic, with only a few service stations getting deliveries….
HARARE – The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has merged Harare province with Chitungwiza while Midlands North and South have been collapsed into one as part of preparations for its elective congress slated for May. [GoogleAd] MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume told the Daily News that the party was merely implementing a 2014 congress resolution whose implementation had…
THE MDC’s national standing committee (NSC) meets in the capital city tomorrow to finalise congress preparations amid serious jostling for positions among party bigwigs. Slated to run from May 24 to 26, the elective congress is the first to be held following the death of the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February last year….
ZANU PF youth league has escalated its attacks on former leader Robert Mugabe, pictured, whom it now wants stripped of all honours bestowed on him during his disastrous 37 years at the helm of the country. [GoogleAd] This follows Mugabe’s withering criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s style of governance, particularly his government’s vicious crackdown against…
MUTARE – Firebrand political activist Lynette Mudehwe has filed a court application demanding the incarceration of Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Commissioner-General of Police Godwin Matanga for failing to comply with a court order to pay her $6 000 in compensation. [GoogleAd] Mudehwe was granted compensation after she was brutally assaulted by the police as she…
A 57-YEAR-old Harare man is in hot soup after he allegedly crashed into the lead car of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s motorcade. [GoogleAd] Dennis Chiwawa, 57, is being charged for contravening Section 52 (2) of the Road Traffic Act for negligent driving. He is undergoing trial while on bail. In his defence Chiwawa told…
MDC MP for Harare West Joana Mamombe who was arrested on Saturday after attending to Parliament business in Nyanga, yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts where she was formally charged with treason. Mamombe yesterday challenged her placement on remand arguing that the police had breached the 48-hour provision, which is the time between a…
Zimbabwe’s elephant population has declined by 10 percent over the last eight years, the Zambezi Elephant Fund (Zef) has said. In a statement released last week to mark World Wildlife Day, Zef, which was formed in 2015 to actively address poaching in the Zambezi Valley, said elephants were now under increased threat. [GoogleAd] “Zimbabwe is…
