Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE High Court has cleared five cops who were jailed 18 months each for allegedly attacking a Harare man and gouging out his eye in 2017. Joseph Musakwa acquitted police officers Livingstone Zvimba, Tendai Musungambira, Evans Mashonganyika, Sunday Nyaude and Dale Khulekani. Musakwa noted how the court had erred in…
JAH Prayzah has clocked 100 million hits on the online video-sharing platform, YouTube, thanks to the popularity of his 109 music videos. Speaking through his manager, Keen Mushapaidze, Jah Prayzah, whose real name is Mukudzei Mukombe, described the development as a milestone for the band. “It’s a milestone and a big one for us. Considering…
Austin Karonga SPORTS WRITER karongaa@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE batsman Brendan Taylor is overjoyed after finally returning to training last week after a long lay-off due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The government imposed a lockdown in March and banned any participation in sports as a measure to contain the spread of the novel virus. The measures were…
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, has postponed the party’s court-directed extra-ordinary congress which was slated for next month — where a substantive new party boss was to be chosen. Khupe’s spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni told the Daily News yesterday that the decision to push forward the gathering was informed by the party’s desire to ensure public…
DANCEHALL music star Winky D has turned down a US$35 000 offer to join United States-based cleric-cum-socialite Passion Java’s music stable. Passion Java was apparently keen to lure Winky D after falling out with another dancehall artiste Enzo Ishall who quit his music stable in January to join Teemak Promotions on a three-year contract reportedly…
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) — over the country’s deteriorating economic situation, the Daily News reports. This comes as workers are struggling to make ends meet due to the ever rising local inflation and prices of…
UNIVERSITIES and colleges will open full throttle next month with other not writing attending classes physically, Higher Education minister Amon Murwira said. This comes as schools have set July 28 as their opening date. Speaking before the parliamentary portfolio committee for Higher Education, Murwira said tertiary institutions have started to open in phases. “The ministry…
TWO more people have been nabbed in connection with the alleged siphoning of $158 million from POSB Bank in a case which has sucked in the bank accounts clerk. Hazel Makarau, 42, and Malvin Makarau, 39, appeared in court charged with fraud and were remanded out of custody on $5 000 bail each. It…
BULAWAYO High Court judge Nokuthula Moyo has dismissed with costs an application by a local civic society organisation Habakkuk Trust, which sought to interdict Parliament from conducting public hearings across the country on the proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 2 Bill. Habakkuk Trust, through its lawyers, had filed an urgent chamber application seeking an order directing…
PANICKY retailers and suppliers have started rejecting coins, $2 and $5 bond notes as the local currency continues to collapse on the country’s active black market, demanding, instead, to be paid in the much more stable United States (US) dollar. This comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced, with effect from today,…
