PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called on Zimbabweans to remain vigilant to avoid a fourth wave of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic as he extended the current Level 4 lockdown by another two weeks despite the decrease in new cases. Speaking at State House in the capital last night, Mnangagwa said the country has done well in…
THE late Robert Martin Gumbura, who passed away at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison hospital on Saturday, is set to be buried at the Glenforest Cemetery in Harare this afternoon. Gumbura, the founder of the RGM Independent End Time Message Church of Zimbabwe, was serving a 20-year prison sentence for rape and succumbed to Covid-19 complications. …
ONE suspected armed robber was shot dead while two others were injured in Four Winds in Bulawayo on Saturday morning following a shootout with a police crack unit. The robbers are said to have travelled from neighbouring South Africa and were targeting a gold dealer in the suburb. However, the robbers luck ran out when…
ZANU PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi insists Parliament is on the right track in terms of implementing political and economic reforms despite critics who are saying the ruling party is not eager for transformation. This comes as the United States (US), the United Kingdom and their Western allies have argued that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has…
FORMER public prosecutor Auxilia Mangwaira, who was convicted in 2012 on allegations of bribery, has had her appeal against the conviction and sentence thrown out by the High Court. However, the same court acquitted Mangwaira’s fellow prosecutor Rosewitter Madembo, who was also accused to have played a part in the offence. Mangwaira together with Madembo…
JB GROUP Singapore is set to invest US$100 million over the next three years in a move that is set to transform the landscape of the local mining sector. This comes as the Singaporean conglomerate is finalising a mining partnership with a local company — Manna Ventures. JB Group Singapore chief executive officer, Jamie Balaji…
THE government has asserted that whether the country’s mooted national talks take off or not, Zimbabwe will hold the 2023 elections as scheduled. At the same time, the country’s deeply-divided opposition has started holding talks aimed at healing its rifts ahead of the fast-approaching polls. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Justice minister…
HARARE’s district Aids coordinator, Agnes Dembedza has urged adolescent girls to have the power to negotiate for safe sex when indulging with much older men. Dembedza said there is need to acknowledge that there is a lot of intergenerational sexual activity across the country which sees much young women sleeping with men twice their age….
THE government has moved in to bridge the gap between the official and parallel exchange rates in order to sustain the current price stability in the country’s economy. This was said by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya in his midterm monetary policy statement last Thursday. “The Bank is addressing the gap between the…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Mashonaland West director of Local Governance, Cecilia Chitiyo and three accomplices on charges of criminal abuse of office. Chitiyo and her team face nine counts of allegedly charging USD$5 000 as an “administrative fee” on all land developers in the province to get land for housing developments during…
