Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO A CHINESE gold miner yesterday appeared in court for allegedly assaulting his workers for demanding six months’ outstanding salaries. Zhangy Zhong, 60, a manager at Fools Investments Mine in Bulawayo, allegedly injured Tatenda Mangena and Costan Mhasa after they asked for their salaries dating back to July last year. Zhangy appeared…
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has made his first appearance since Chinese regulators cracked down on his business empire. His absence had fuelled speculation over his whereabouts amid increasing official scrutiny of his businesses. The billionaire met 100 rural teachers in China via a video meeting on Wednesday, according to local government media. Alibaba shares…
As was the case 12 years ago, Joe Biden enters the White House on an economic rescue mission after an historic US and global recession. Then he was vice president and the world was reeling from the shock of the financial crisis. And while Mr Biden has defended the economic record of his then-boss President…
Cape Town – Epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist Professor Salim Abdool Karim says scientists have new evidence that the new Covid variant, 501.V2 found in South Africa is stronger and spreads faster. Karim was speaking during a scientific panel discussion, led by Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on the new variant of the coronavirus. “This…
Godknows Matarutse and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS AS THE country remains in the vice grip of the deadly coronavirus, amid soaring deaths and infections, police have made a fresh appeal to Zimbabweans to improve their discipline and heed all current lockdown measures. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi,…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw THE government is probing former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm, Glorious Properties. On her part, Kagonye described the investigation in an interview with the Daily News yesterday as a “smear campaign” by her detractors. “I…
US President-elect Joe Biden has moved to dismiss a new White House decree on Covid travel rules, as Donald Trump enters his final full day in office. In one of his last orders, Mr Trump had tried to end travel bans for visitors from much of Europe and Brazil. Mr Biden’s spokeswoman said now was…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) acting general manager Joseph Mashika has died. NNRZ board chairperson Martin Dinha told the Daily News that Mashika passed on at a private clinic in the capital on Sunday. He succumbed to an undisclosed illness. Mashika was 44 and is survived by his wife, Nomatter, and four children….
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THREE Bulawayo men have been arrested for allegedly possessing 50kg of ivory. Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said Leonard Murwira, 48, Enock Mhlanga, 62, and Pius Ntini, 30, were arrested following a tip-off. “On 14th of January 2021, at around 1100 hours information was received to the effect that the…
Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw DETECTIVES investigating the US$2,7 million cash-in-transit heist have so far recovered US$700 000 from the suspects. Yesterday, another suspect appeared in court in connection with the heist and led to the recovery of US$63 000 and a Toyota Hilux he had allegedly bought. Tatenda Gadzikwa, 39, is also…
