June 2019

© FIVE human rights activists who stand accused of plotting to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government will spend another week in remand prison before they know their fate after a High Court judge set bail ruling for Friday. [GoogleAd] George Makoni (Centre for Community Development), Tatenda Mombeyarara (International Socialist Organisation) Gamuchirai Mukura (Community Tolerance Reconciliation…

© THE High Court has ordered Harare City Council (HCC) to stop any developments on a Greendale wetland.The local authority had allowed developments on Greengrove wetland without producing an Environmental Impact Assessment of the area. [GoogleAd] High Court Judge Justice Erica Ndewere  last month gave the ruling in favour of Greendale Residents and Ratepayers Association,…

© THE denial by Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) of their alleged biased coverage while giving oral evidence in Parliament buttresses calls for its transformation, a media watchdog has said. [GoogleAd] On  May 23,  ZBC denied before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services that its coverage is biased with its chief executive…

© THE Parliamentary portfolio committee on Lands and Agriculture has urged the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) to stop interfering in politics and advancing factional fights as this can save the company from bankruptcy. [GoogleAd] Speaking during a workshop organised by Cottco in Kariba over the weekend, the committee’s chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyajena challenged the…

© AT their just-ended congress, the main opposition political party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), elected Nelson Chamisa as its president with Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and Lennet Kairenyi-Kore as vice presidents. At the same congress Thabita Khumalo and Charton Hwende won national chairperson and secretary general respectively. [GoogleAd] The Daily News spoke to a…

© FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says government has only been issuing guarantees to strategic entities in which it has some shareholding and not to private individuals and companies. [GoogleAd] Ncube revealed this in Parliament after legislators complained that government continued issuance of guarantees without Parliament approval as stipulated in both the Constitution and Public Finance…