THE High Court has dismissed, with costs, an application by a legal practitioner challenging the constitutionality of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 which prohibited businesses from charging above the official foreign currency exchange rate. Obey Shava, a human rights lawyer, sought to have SI 127/21 declared unconstitutional in its entirety and be set aside. In…
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) has embarked on a nationwide stakeholder engagement tour to discuss the electricity supply situation in the country in a bid to address power supply reliability challenges. This comes as the country has been experiencing power reliability challenges characterised by frequent faults, slow reaction to faults, power outages, long waiting periods for connection, huge…
CLOSE to 6 000 motorists have so far been arrested for operating unregistered and plate-less vehicles across the country since the commencement of a police blitz last Saturday. In a statement on Wednesday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said law enforcement agents would be relentless in their pursuit of unregistered and plate-less vehicles as they…
WITH factionalism continuing to be a major issue in Zanu PF, the ruling party warned yesterday that it would sack all bigwigs caught trying to influence its primaries today, which will choose candidates for the March 26 by-elections. Speaking to the Daily News, Zanu PF secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, said the party was aware of…
Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika THE MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, has dented its democratic credentials by avoiding primary elections to choose candidates for the March 26 by-elections to reward loyalists, analysts have said. This comes after the opposition party’s secretary for elections, Ian Makone, announced last weekend that the outfit’s recalled legislators and councillors…
Andile Tshuma BULAWAYO City Council has embarked on a door-to-door Covid-19 vaccination campaign amid fears that some of the vaccines would soon be rendered useless as they were nearing their expiry dates. The campaign, a partnership between the council’s health services department and the ministry of Health, aims to up the city’s pace towards achieving…
OPPOSITION leader, Douglas Mwonzora, has suspended his deputy, Thokozani Khupe along with her ally Khalipani Phugeni, for “taking party issues to court”. MDC spokesperson Witness Dube yesterday confirmed the development to the Daily News — saying Khupe and Phugeni were suspended last week “She was suspended on January 12 pending investigations …The letter (of suspension) was sent…
A SEX worker who grabbed headlines last year for allegedly bedding a boy half her age has denied the allegations, saying she could not have indulged with him before being paid. Precious Teya, 26, is facing a charge of aggravated indecent assault, allegations she denied when she appeared before regional magistrate Sandra Mupindu, yesterday. Teya…
ZIMBABWE is mourning another legendary music maestro, Zexie Manatsa, pictured, who succumbed to cancer in Harare yesterday. The much-loved musician-cum-cleric, 78, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma — a type of cancer of the blood — in August last year, and had been in and out of hospital since then. “It is with great sadness that…
Dionne Kanyowa A HARARE-BASED spiritual healer has appeared in court for allegedly raping one of his clients when he went to ‘heal’ her at her house. Yesterday, Joel Matarirano, 33, appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda who remanded him to February 24. Allegations against Matarirano are that in November last year, the complainant, who is 22 years…
