DEPUTY Local Government minister Marian Chombo insists that police officers are not allowed to confiscate any wares during operations to drive vendors from the streets of urban central business districts. This comes as there are running battles between the law enforcement agents and illegal streets hawkers on a daily basis. However, police officers are seen…
A SOUTH African haulage truck driver, who was smuggling goods worth over R100 000, was arrested and got his vehicle impounded after several attempts to bribe Bulawayo police to let him go scot-free. The Zambia-bound truck was intercepted along the Harare-Bulawayo Road on Thursday night. The driver’s luck ran out when police noticed him offloading…
Z IMBABWE Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Mabhudhu says the company is holding the keys to the country’s…
FORMER Bulawayo deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami has rekindled his fight to bounce back after approaching the High Court to grant an order to force council to reinstate him. In 2019, High Court judge Thompson Mabhikwa ruled that Kambarami should not hold office after 1892 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement Trust and Nomalanga Dabengwa successfully challenged his election. …
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri says Zimbabwe is readying its troops for deployment in neighbouring Mozambique, which is facing a violent insurgency in…
SENATORS on Thursday criticised the government for failing to deal with fuel dealers who are receiving foreign currency from the Reserve Bank Zimbabwe (RBZ), but are selling their products exclusively in United States (US) dollars. This comes as very few service stations are selling fuel in Zimbabwean dollars despite the fact that most oil marketing…
ALMOST half of Zimbabweans faced extreme poverty owing to combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and an increase in the price of basic necessities in 2020. This is according to the Zimbabwe Poverty Update 2017-2019 and 2021 Rapid Poverty Income Consumption and Expenditure Survey (PICES) round three results released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency…
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, has urged Zimbabweans to take advantage of the New Freedom of Information Act to hold the government…
A HARARE woman has been nabbed on allegations of swindling a local businessman of US$488 000 in a botched mining deal, while also name-dropping the names of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some army generals. Eustine Charambira was not asked to plead to allegations of fraud and was remanded in custody to Monday for bail application. …
THE recent decision by the MDC Alliance’s standing committee to dissolve the coalition’s strife-torn Bulawayo provincial executive has sharpened factional divisions within the pact. Insiders told the Daily News yesterday that the decision had seen relations between the coalition’s two major factions in the troubled region — allegedly linked to alliance vice president Welshman Ncube and national…
