FORMER Zimbabwe Power Company board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje has been granted bail pending appeal against his conviction. He was convicted for receiving a $10 000 bribe to stop the cancellation of a Gwanda solar project tender. Kazhanje’s appeal took a dramatic twist after it was discovered during the bail hearing that he was in the…
MDC Alliance Glen View North MP Kennedy Dinar has died. He was 42. Dinar died at Chitungwiza Central Hospital yesterday morning where he had been admitted after a short illness. Announcing his death, the MDC Alliance said it had lost a loyal and dedicated cadre. “We are saddened to learn of the untimely death of…
UNDER-FIRE Zimbabwe cricket interim limited overs captain Chamu Chibhabha feels he will finally get it right with the bat despite an underwhelming performance in the ongoing tour of Pakistan. After almost seven months of inactivity due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Chibhabha and his men were finally able to get back on the field during…
WE all knew it was coming, and now it is here: an attempted coup. There is no other way to describe what US President Donald Trump did in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Standing in the East Room of the White House, the room where Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F Kennedy lay in…
ARTS and media practitioners have come together to form the Content Creators Network of Zimbabwe which will defend creators, promote free expression and grow the digital media industry, the Daily News reports. The network, which was launched yesterday, is made up of the country’s trailblazing digital platforms including Magamba Network, Bustop TV, Centre for Innovation…
MORE than US$1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin linked to the notorious Silk Road website has been seized by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). Earlier this week, crypto-currency watchers noticed about 70,000 bitcoins being moved from an account believed to be linked to the illicit marketplace. Silk Road was an online black market, selling everything…
KEY stakeholders in the Zimbabwean tourism sector yesterday convened in Harare to deliberate on the progress in terms of disbursement of the $500 million economic stimulus package provided to them by government in May this year. The stimulus package included a set of economic measures put together to stimulate a floundering economy with the objective…
ART has over the years played the crucial role of healing and giving hope to troubled souls, artists said, adding that it was also a lubricant during the Covid-19 lockdown period. This came out during the 3rd National Citizens Convention which started on Wednesday and will run until today. Deliberating on the question; how do…
EDITOR — We read in the press that the city of Harare has started supplying water again and would be distributing it to suburbs consistently, with the precious liquid flowing from taps in some suburbs after the whole city went without last week. This announcement initially brought a sense of relief and significantly raised our…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw JAILED rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is fighting to have his family occupy a Mazoe farm he bought in August while in prison after illegal occupants who have lived there since 2002 refused to vacate the property. Kereke assumed 100 percent ownership of subdivision A of Graham Extension of Burley Bottom, also…
