Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ACTING MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, pictured, and her team are unrelenting in their assaults on Nelson Chamisa and his top allies — signalling yesterday that they are now planning to sack 30 more party legislators from Parliament and to take over all the main opposition’s provincial offices. Khupe’s…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw SUSPECTED State security agents raided the home of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa on Sunday night, harassing his petrified family, the Daily News reports. This comes after the homes of MDC deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala and expelled Zanu PF youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu were also raided…
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has with immediate effect appointed his deputy, Welshman Ncube, as the acting party president till further notice. This comes after Chamisa recently lost his mother. Thousands attended the burial at his rural home in Gutu, Masvingo last week. The new development is meant to give the embattled MDC leader time…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has called on the public to utilise its whistle-blower facility to assist its fight against corruption. In a statement on the whistle-blower facility, Zimra said it rewards up to 10 percent of the revenue that is recovered. “The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) wishes to inform the public that in an…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw BUSINESSMAN Tawanda Nyambirai’s TN Gold Arcturus Mine (Ptv) Ltd is battling to interdict a miner who has encroached onto its premises and is attempting to process the extraction of gold by obtaining an environmental impact assessment certificate. TN Mine is suing Zvanyadza Pari and the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) and…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO SIX police officers who allegedly assaulted two women from Cowdray Park suburb have filed an application to have their charges dropped. This comes as the case, which caused a huge uproar among residents and human rights activists, had suffered several false starts. The six, who are represented by Maclean Mahaso and…
A HARARE man has been jailed for an effective 10 years for trafficking six women to Kuwait on the pretext of securing them well-paying domestic jobs but instead subjected them to slavery and exploitation. James Marodza was lucky not to have been charged with a section which carries a mandatory 10-year sentence on each count….
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to various stakeholders to participate in the development of a National Development Strategy in efforts to rebuild the ailing economy. This comes as Zimbabwe is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade characterised by hyperinflation, cash, foreign currency and fuel shortages and…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ENVIRONMENT minister Mangaliso Ndlovu says the government is working towards a framework to ban the use of mercury, which is rampant among small-scale miners and poses health risks, the Daily News reports. This comes as various stakeholders have called on the government to regulate the use of mercury, which…
by EDDIE CROSS CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to the State (without changing the rates applied) grew by an average of over 70 percent per annum. In…
