© DESPITE the MDC calling off its planned demonstrations around the country, jittery authorities — using both police and armed soldiers — still sealed off all the main roads leading to the capital city’s central business district (CBD) yesterday, the Daily News can report. This over-the-top action by law enforcement agents followed a night of…
© PARLIAMENT will once again summon under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to appear in the august House, to give answers about the ever skyrocketing prices of basic consumer goods and fuel in the country. This comes as Ncube has come under growing pressure from both ordinary Zimbabweans and the business community to do more to…
ZIMBABWE’s war veterans have unleashed their fury on EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen, demanding he stops wading into Zimbabwe’s political affairs. The controversy has clouded Zimbabwe’s re-engagement strategy with the West, coming after the EU mauled President Emmerson Mnangagwa again demanding an end to government crackdown on dissenting voices, including harassment of trade union…
© HIGH court judge Thompson Mabhikwa yesterday set aside the election of deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, abruptly ending his “controversial” one-and-a-half-year stint with the local authority. The ruling came after pressure group 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement (1893MRM) had sought the court’s intervention in declaring him unfit for public office as he has a criminal record….
© FORMER Cabinet minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, is being sued for an over $311 500 electricity bill by Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC). ZETDC approached the High Court after Sekeramayi had ignored terms of a deed of settlement which the parties had entered into by consent to clear the bill. [GoogleAd] ZETDC wants…
© A Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer under probe for accumulating wealth beyond his known source of income has been served with divorce papers with his wife after he married a second wife just before his arrest. Kennedy Nyatoti was served with divorce papers yesterday immediately after the State had sought forfeiture of his allegedly…
© The heavy police presence witnessed in the capital yesterday was discussed in the National Assembly, with Dzivaresekwa MDC MP Edwin Mushoriwa expressing disquiet over the measure. “I watched unbelievable scenes. The police were searching every car. This is not good for our country. The leader of the house must explain why the police is…
© PARLIAMENT has completed its investigations on members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy who allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman keen to mine coal in Hwange in January. In February, the National Assembly set up a committee chaired by Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira to investigate Temba Mliswa —…
© GOVERNMENT is yet to release the five percent it set aside for local authorities as their devolution fund. In an interview with the Daily News, Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe president Hosiah Makombe said failure to release the funds by government showed that they did not have the money. [GoogleAd] According to the Constitution…
© INTERIM Warriors coach Joey Antipas has set a bad precedent and allowed a cowardly culture to perpetuate, when he allowed Zifa to dictate players he could choose and not call up to the national team. Antipas was only appointed into the hot seat two weeks ago but had to make a lot of compromises…
