ZIMBABWE’S tour of Australia scheduled for next month has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Chevrons were scheduled to take on the Baggy Greens in three ODIs in August but that tour will have to be held at a later date after Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) and Cricket Australia (CA) both agreed on the…
WITH Zimbabwe’s political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the military, the Daily News reports. At the same time, authorities said yesterday that they had now identified the people who recently claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE Health Services Board (HSB) told Parliament yesterday that the country’s health delivery system was being derailed by a cocktail of problems — among them budgetary constraints which were demotivating health workers, the Daily News reports. This comes as health workers have been on strike since last week pressing…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe dollar yesterday further lost value against the US$ by 12 percentage points as the country held its second foreign currency auction, a move set to result in increase in prices of goods and services in local currency. According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe auction results, the…
BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, through his Higher Life Foundation (HLF), is offering US$50 per month to people affected by the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19). The Econet Wireless Zimbabwe founder, whose HLF now offers free Covid-19 testing, is asking anyone who is currently suffering from the disease but has no real incentive to come forward. The…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe’s brother, Samson Marufu, is embroiled in a court battle with his nephew Russel Goreraza and businessman Genius Kadungure following a botched sale of a Mercedes Benz ML63. In an application for an interdict filed in the 3High Court, Marufu wants an order for Kadungure to…
TWO Harare men who murdered a taxi driver in November 2018 are now awaiting execution after the High Court sentenced them to death. Justice Tawanda Chitapi sentenced Romeo Jambura and Norest Tamangani to death and noted that although the constitutionality of the death penalty was still being debated, he was not hamstrung to impose the…
SUSPENDED NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje and his alleged accomplices yesterday suffered an initial setback after a Harare magistrate threw out their application for refusal of remand. Muchenje, 47, is jointly charged with interconnection and roaming manager Tawanda Sibanda, 49, acting chief finance officer Tinashe Severa, 43, chief technology officer Darlington Gutu, 53, chief operating…
