February 2023

GOING ahead with this year’s national elections without the country having implemented all requisite electoral reforms will plunge Zimbabwe into a deeper political and economic crisis, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, after Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa recently wrote to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking a meeting between…

BUSINESSMAN and Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Mayor Justice Wadyajena, together with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses — Pious Manamike, Maxmore Njani, Fortunate Molai and Chiedza Danha — is off the hook for now after the court granted the quintet’s application for refusal of further remand. This comes as the five accused had been facing fraud and…

THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) yesterday released Ordinary Level results of all candidates who wrote the examinations in November at Mukaro High School in Masvingo province, after initially withholding them last week. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Zimsec spokesperson Nicky Dhlamini confirmed that the examination board had withheld the boarding school’s…

PARLIAMENT has opposed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform chairperson Tonderai Chidawa, who is challenging the authenticity of the preliminary delimitation report that it received from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to analyse and make recommendations. Chidawa wants the ConCourt to nullify Parliament recommendations on the report, arguing that the…

THE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) acting deputy executive director Sonja LeightonKone, jetted into the country yesterday and is expected to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials to discuss issues on climate change, waste and pollution. She will be in the country until Saturday. Leighton-Kone is accompanied by Frank Turyatunga, the regional…