© A DEFIANT opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is cranking up the heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, amid revelations that the MDC will soon launch fresh mass protests against the government despite the ongoing brutal crackdown by authorities against opposition and pro-democracy activists, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes as Western powers are piling…
© POPULAR comedienne, Gonyeti — real name Samantha Kureya — yesterday recounted harrowing details of her abduction and torture at the hands of suspected State security agents on Wednesday evening. [GoogleAd] The Bustop TV star was heavily assaulted after the armed masked men stormed her family home in Mufakose, following the release of a skit…
© ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi has blamed the resurgent massive load-shedding on the breakdown of some of the thermal power stations which contribute to the national grid besides the Kariba Hydro Station and South African power utility company Eskom. [GoogleAd] Following a week of improved power supplies recently, the country has rolled back into darkness…
© THE chairperson of the MDC’s veterans activists association, Victor Zunza, has died. [GoogleAd] Zunza — a founder member of the party — collapsed and died in Mbare on Tuesday. Described as a “gallant fighter in the country’s democratic struggle”, the MDC family said it has learnt with deep shock of the passing on of…
© THE newly-branded annual Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (Zas), aimed at developing the local agricultural value chains and facilitating national agricultural development in the country, officially opens today with police reassuring parents of their children’s safety. [GoogleAd] Speaking to the Daily News, Harare Municipal Police spokesperson Tarirai Dube said there will be security enhancements to add…
© GLEN VIEW South and Mangwe National Assembly constituencies as well as Masvingo ward 1 will be holding by-elections on September 7, 2019. [GoogleAd] In a notice, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana said observers from the continent of Africa, foreign embassies, Zimbabwean and foreign media houses, and any other country outside…
© Givemore Chidzidzi has been appointed Zimbabwe Tourism Authority’s acting chief executive with immediate effect. [GoogleAd] Chidzidzi takes over after economist Rita Likukuma, who was seconded by the ZTA board to temporarily take charge of the organisation’s executive affairs after the chief executive Karikoga Kaseke fell ill. Likukuma has reverted to her non executive…
© The MDC national organiser Amos Chibaya has been arrested and charged with failing to take steps to stop MDC demonstrations. [GoogleAd] Chibaya was the convener of the MDC’s proposed peaceful demonstrations in four cities that were later foiled by the police after they issued four prohibition orders to stop citizens in the respective cities. …
© EDUCATION minister Paul Mavima has been hit with a US$30 000 lawsuit after failing to pay for classroom block constructions he had contracted for a Bindura school. [GoogleAd] Mavima is cited as a respondent by Macro Construction (Pvt) Ltd which is demanding US$23 859 and $6 640 for work done at Chiwaridzo Secondary School…
© JOURNALIST Edmund Kudzayi has filed a $500 000 lawsuit for unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution for possessing a camouflage umbrella. [GoogleAd] Kudzayi was charged with unlawful possession of camouflage in February but was later acquitted after Prosecution failed to prove a case against him. The trial magistrate Victoria Mashamba slammed the State for wasting…
