OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora says his party, the MDC, is a genuine political movement fighting for a level playing field ahead of this year’s general elections. This comes after Mwonzora has received widespread criticism from different quarters and accused of being a puppet of the ruling party, Zanu PF, as he filed court applications seeking…
AUTHORITIES say they plan to fast-track the passage of the Electoral Amendment Bill in Parliament. This is intended to happen so that the mooted changes to the country’s laws can be used in this year’s crunch national elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said claims that reforms that would come…
By Rutendo Ngara PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the lack of foreign funding in the country is derailing major infrastructural development and the government is struggling to provide social protection to citizens. Addressing a high-level debt resolution forum in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa said the only solution to promote development in the country is to ensure that…
A UNITED States (US) court has convicted an American lawyer for hiring an undercover agent to murder his former Zimbabwean partner — who is the mother of his two children. Allen Gessen, 48, was found guilty of hiring a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent to murder Zimbabwe Fashion Week founder and model, Priscilla Chigariro….
THE minister of Home Affairs, Kazembe Kazembe, and police commissioner general Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay a local company, Lovigate Incorporated, more than US$600 000 after breaching a contract for the purchase of speed enforcement cameras. Lovigate had sued the two senior government officials at the High Court, demanding US$1 956 035 for…
By Brandon Josphat SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has stopped an inquiry that was set for Thursday by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (Pac) into allegations of illicit gold flows in the country, saying the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission are seized with the matter. The committee had…
THE Zimbabwe Association of Neurological Surgeons says it is intensifying the training of neurosurgeons in the country to ensure their services are decentralised. This comes at a time when Harare and Bulawayo are the only two cities with neurosurgeons with the second capital having only two specialists, one based at the United Bulawayo Hospitals and…
A HIGH Court judge acquitted a woman who killed her estranged husband in Waterfalls, Harare, while suffering a mental illness in 2021. Leoba Muzondo fatally struck Farai Tsatsa, with a metal hoe during an argument over the now deceased’s shoes that the accused was holding as security for payment for her plastic dish and a…
A MAN from Highfield, Harare, who allegedly stabbed his wife in the back and threatened to set their house on fire because he suspected she was having affairs, appeared before a Harare magistrate yesterday. Achievement Mandishara, 35, appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa, where he was charged with attempted murder and was remanded in custody after…
WASTEFUL CAPS United were held to a disappointing goalless draw by premiership returnees Hwange here yesterday. The Green Machine could have won the game by a big margin if they had been more clinical in front of goal against the time wasting Hwange who were delaying the game from the first minute of the game….
