By Rutendo Ngara CONSTITUTIONAL law watchdog, Veritas, says the government breached the country’s Constitution by tabling the preliminary delimitation report on the 11th day instead of seven days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa received it from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The watchdog said the delay would give Parliament a limited period to review and deliberate…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THE death toll from the heavy rains the country is receiving has risen to four, leaving a trail of destruction with roofs of homes and schools blown off in most parts, the government has confirmed. An unidentified female head at Bare Secondary School, Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central, died on Friday after a…
BETTER Brands Jewellery (BBJ) cemented its position as the country’s biggest buyer of gold after delivering 18 tonnes of the 35 tonnes…
POLICE in Mpumalanga have arrested a 43-year-old undocumented Zimbabwean national, and charged him with kidnapping, extortion, armed robbery, and illegal possession of…
AWARD-WINNING gospel musician Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave has stunned her social media followers by revealing that she regrets the decision she made to be an artist. Fungisai, a former Mutoko High School student, began her colourful music career in 2000 after she got an unexpected opportunity to back veteran gospel musician Elias Musakwa. Impressed by the fledgling…
WITH the financial and organisational support of the United States (US) after 2005, a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was…
FOUR suspected armed robbers arrested on Thursday in Goromonzi and Harare for a spate of crimes across the country appeared in court yesterday before they were remanded in custody. Two members were remanded in hospital after they were injured following a shoot-out with the police. Thulani Munetsi and Zondai Previous Ngarande appeared before Harare magistrate…
By Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat THERE is no immediate reprieve for the country from the current brutal power cuts, with the situation only expected to improve as from the end of the month. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, a downbeat deputy minister of Energy and Power Development, Magna Mudyiwa, said authorities were praying…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday tabled before Parliament the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) preliminary delimitation report, which is proposing the reconfiguration of scores of parliamentary constituencies in six provinces. The preliminary report also proposes an increase in the number of local council wards from 1 958 to 1 970. Zec has been conducting a delimitation exercise…
HARARE businessman and music promoter Aggrey Tawengwa has died. The director of the popular Mushandirapamwe Hotel in Highfield, Tawengwa, passed on at a private hospital in Harare yesterday from diabetes. Family spokesperson Tendai Tawengwa, a brother to the late Aggrey, said he would be buried in Marondera at a date to be announced. “This is…
