By Tariro Sajeni and Mugove Tafirenyika AMID continuing public complacency, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, has hinted that the government could soon make it mandatory for people to be vaccinated against coronavirus, after the lethal disease claimed at least 96 lives this month alone. Speaking in Harare yesterday, after receiving about US$1,4 million worth of…
ZANU PF has moved a notch up in preparations for the impending mini-general polls for 117 parliamentary and local government vacancies after it directed all provincial structures to collect CVs from aspiring candidates. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa hinted in April that the ban on by-elections owing to restrictions brought by the Covid-19 pandemic…
A MAZOWE man has dragged former first lady Grace Mugabe, pictured, to the High Court demanding her eviction from a farm that she allegedly illegally occupied in 2008. In summons filed last Friday, Langton Chapungu accused Grace, the wife of the late former president Robert Mugabe, of illegally occupying his farm and building structures on…
THE MDC Alliance has expressed concern over the low voter registration, blaming it on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), which it said has few registration centres across the country. Addressing the media this week, MDC Alliance secretary for elections, Ian Makone said that the current Zec centres were not enough to cater for all…
A BULAWAYO man of fixed abode, who strangled his 81-year-old ex-employer to death in Upper Rangemore, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in jail by the High Court. Iphithule Moyo was found guilty of killing Naomi Titsha during a salary dispute that occurred in May last year. Bulawayo High Court judge,…
ZANU PF acting-political commissar Patrick Chinamasa has threatened to go after and deregister non-governmental organisations (NGOs) deemed hostile to Zimbabwe and are pushing a regime change agenda. This comes as the ruling party and President Emmerson Mnanagwa’s government has come under constant criticism especially from human rights-based NGOs and civic society over a number of…
THE newly-appointed National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is currently seized with the Gukurahundi issue and has already sent teams to Matabeleland and Bulawayo provinces. The 1980s disturbances in the two provinces are believed to have claimed the lives of 20 000 civilians while the late former president Robert Mugabe described the episode…
THE rapidly changing business environment has shown companies that they should put contributing to the improvement of the socio-economic circumstances of the…
ZIMBABWEAN authorities must take the recent warning issued by a medical and forensic expert that international drug cartels are using the country as a gateway into South Africa and the rest of the region seriously. Testifying during the trial of South African drug mule Shila Khumalo on Tuesday, forensic expert Clany Nyamukure told the Harare…
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora says despite the efforts by “a few people” to the contrary, national dialogue is the only sure way of forging national unity and curing the country’s long history of disputed polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mwonzora also observed that the current polarisation and deep-seated divisions in the country made holding…
