© FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei flexed his financial muscle on Wednesday evening when he bought President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s trademark scarf for a jaw-dropping RTGS$250 000. [GoogleAd] This was at a fund-raising dinner held at one of Harare’s top hotels to raise funds for the senior men’s national soccer team, the Warriors, for the 2019 Africa…
© FISSURES have emerged in Zapu over Dumiso Dabengwa’s succession, barely a fortnight after the liberation war icon was laid to rest at his rural home in Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North. [GoogleAd] The Daily News can report that two crucial meetings have been lined up in the coming week, where some senior officials in Zapu…
© THE country’s largest teachers’ organisation, Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has warned of an impending catastrophe in schools if the government fails to increase the educators’ salaries in line with the current inflationary figures. [GoogleAd] In a statement, Zimta secretary-general Tapson Nganunu Sibanda, said it will not be shocking to find teachers failing to attend…
© THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union (Artuz), whose leader Obert Masaraure was recently abducted and tortured, yesterday said some of its members have fled the country, while others are in hiding, adding that they will soon engineer another national shutdown against the continued economic meltdown. [GoogleAd] Masaraure was conspicuous by his absence at a press…
© WOMEN’S Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Settlement minister Perrance Shiri saying they did not respect gender equality in their recent appointments. [GoogleAd] Shiri made appointments of board of directors while Mnangagwa appointed 17 ambassadors and WCoZ said the two failed to consider the…
© DUE to erratic power supply by the national power utility, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has issued a power generation licence to the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (Saz). [GoogleAd] The licence, issued on May 13, will allow Saz to generate electricity for their own use and not to be reliant on the national…
© THE new Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (MOPB) is a reflection of the Public Order and Security Act (Posa) which it seeks to replace, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has said. [GoogleAd] On April 19, government gazetted the MOPB Bill which seeks to replace the draconian Posa (Chapter 11:07). In a press…
© MDC president Nelson Chamisa yesterday reached out to his erstwhile counterpart Thokozani Khupe at the funeral wake of the party’s late founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s daughter, Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java. [GoogleAd] Chamisa saluted the former MDC deputy president, who now leads a break-away faction under the MDC-T banner. The two parted ways last year soon after…
© PROSECUTORS from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have taken over the trial of Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director general Gift Machengete after several false starts to the case. [GoogleAd] Machengete is accused of violating Procurement Act provisions after he allegedly engaged a local company to purchase Container Village Information Centres…
© A CHIPINGE woman, Pamela Pengakufa, 47, was on Tuesday at around 2100hours robbed of US$24 000, R18 000 and other valuables when eight armed robbers raided her home. [GoogleAd] Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Tavhiringwa Kakohwa said the gang jumped into her yard in the full glare of her 18-year-old son Quinton Cyclide Wigging and Dunmore…
