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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is scheduled to launch a fine-tuned new indigenisation and empowerment policy in Bulawayo today, as Zanu PF escalates its campaigns for the 2023 national elections.  The ambitious latest iteration of the country’s empowerment programme is meant to benefit more Zimbabweans involved in mining, agriculture, infrastructure development and manufacturing, among other sectors. Zanu…

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has upped its anti-graft drive, embarking on a massive recruitment exercise aimed at strengthening its decentralisation strategy. Zacc seeks to recruit 36 investigation officers, six administrative officers, nine public education officers, audit and risk officers and legal officers in prosecution and liaison, who are to be deployed across the country….

A POLICE officer, accused of being part of a drug smuggling syndicate, has been arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts on criminal abuse of office charges. Harrison Muzarewetu, 35, allegedly travelled to India and brought drugs into the country, before handing them over to his handlers for a fee. The State alleged that on April…

LAND baron Felix Munyaradzi who is accused of obstructing justice and interfering with a State witness has approached the High Court challenging the magistrates’ court’s decision to place him on remand. Munyaradzi is accused of attempting to pressure assistant commissioner Erasmus Makodza to drop the charges against him in a case in which he was…

THE ruling Zanu PF and the MDC continue to butt heads over Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, with opposition legislators arguing that this will give a sitting president too much power if approved. Speaking in the Senate on Tuesday during a heated debate over the Bill — which seeks to introduce at least 27 amendments…

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has donated        3 000 radio sets to benefit disadvantaged school-going children who have no access to the gadgets which are now being used to offer educational lessons amid the Covid-19 pandemic.   With the recent surge in active positive cases of the lethal virus in schools,…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe’s US$2,8 million dry mortar plant – the largest in southern Africa — which he said will reduce construction costs by 40 percent and is in line with the country’s economic blueprint, the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).   Commissioning the plant at the firm’s Mabvuku, Harare, premises,…

THE trial of MDC Alliance youth leaders Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, accused of faking abduction, was off to a dramatic start, after they made several applications, subsequently dismissed. Through their lawyers, Alec Muchadehama and Jeremiah Bamu, the trio sought for the postponement of their trial on the basis of a provisional High…

ZANU PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, pictured, says Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 is not about President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s succession or sidelining his party and government lieutenants. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mpofu said the Bill — which seeks to introduce at least 27 amendments to the country’s Constitution, including dropping the presidential election running…

MDC senators have blasted Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, saying it is a step backwards for Zimbabwe, as it takes away power from the people and gives it all to the president. Debating the Bill yesterday, which among other things scraps the running mate clause, opposition senators said the move was against the spirit of…