AN ISRAELI businessman accused of conniving with his personal assistant in defrauding his business partners of over US$200 000 after forging signatures on bank documents is set to stand trial. This comes as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Corruption (Zacc) has completed its investigations into the matter. Ofer Sivan, who stands accused of perjury and fraud by…
Andile Tshuma THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has hailed the use of drones to curb poaching activities as well as cutting expenditure for national parks. Speaking to journalists at the ongoing African elephant conference in Hwange, Matabeleland North Province yesterday, ZimParks director general Fulton Mangwanya said the use of technology had helped…
FOR decades, the country, under the leadership of the late former president Robert Mugabe, bled due to poor policies and bad governance grounded in corruption by his ruling elite and general policy paucity and outright bad governance. His dramatic ouster in November 2017 was embraced; not only in Zimbabwe, but all over the world amid…
VIRGINIA Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a clinic in Harare. “It’s tiring — the nurse-patient ratio is really bad,” she says, throwing herself onto a brown sofa at her house in Cold Comfort after a 12-hour shift. “It’s frustrating, because you can’t offer quality care.”…
Jeffrey Muvundusi muvundusi@dailynews.co.zw IN A move that is set to stir emotions and raise much debate, the son of the late veteran nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo — Sibangilizwe — is stepping up his bid to have the remains of his father exhumed from the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Sibangalizwe, who now leads ZAPU, says…
Cloud Fusire fusirec@dailynews.co.zw DYNAMOS coach Tonderai Ndiraya, will this week appear before the club’s Disciplinary Committee to clear his name against unspecified charges that led to his suspension at the weekend. The Glamour Boys’ executive surprised many at the weekend when they suspended Ndiraya with immediate effect, for unnamed reasons despite guiding the club to…
Tanyaradzwa Marabada UNITED States-based chimurenga music legend, Thomas Mapfumo has promised to sample songs off his latest album — Ndikutambire — when he performs in South Africa (SA) next weekend. Mapfumo, who turns 77 on July 4, will perform at Newtown Music Factory in Johannesburg on Saturday and at Club Africa in Benoni the following…
Melisa Chatikobo BLACK farmers who lost land during the land reform programme will either get back their property, while others will be included in the US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Deed for white farmers, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has said. Speaking to the Daily News on the sidelines of the borehole rigs handover ceremony to Zimbabwe Water Authority…
AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro has been granted $50 000 bail, ending his incarceration on allegations of conniving in defrauding the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) of fertiliser and seeds worth US$73 000. Karoro yesterday described his arrest as the work of his political adversaries eying his political seat in Mbire constituency when he appeared before…
DISTRIBUTED Power Africa (DPA), a business of Cassava Technologies, and Électricité de France (EDF), a world-leading electricity company, entered into a partnership to develop hybrid energy solutions for businesses in South Africa (SA). Through a 50 percent shareholding in DPA operations in SA, EDF will fuel the development of distributed energy solutions, starting with a…
