THE Zimnat Group has extended its insurance arm into South Africa to enable Zimbabweans living there to take out insurance cover for funeral expenses, including the cost of bringing their bodies back to Zimbabwe should they die in South Africa. This comes as various news sources have reported an increase in the number of Zimbabweans…
By Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson and spokesperson of the July 31 Movement, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, pictured, was arrested by authorities in Tynwald North — west of Harare — yesterday, having spent nearly a month in hiding, the Daily News reports. At the same time, another organiser of the foiled…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) took steps more than a year ago to have former Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe extradited to South Africa for the alleged August 2017 assault of model Gabriella Engels in a Sandton hotel, AfriForum revealed on Thursday. The delay, however, seems to lie with the department of justice. The civil…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed mobile money operators to immediately close all multiple wallets and allow just one wallet per individual. THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed mobile money operators to immediately close all multiple wallets and allow just one wallet per individual. This came out from the…
By Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SOUTH Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) says its government should be frank and straightforward about what is happening in Zimbabwe before a solution to the country’s problems is found. ANC chairperson of the subcommittee on international relations Lindiwe Zulu, told a virtual Governance Accountability Platform (GAP) discussion…
TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump issued an executive order on Aug. 14 that gave ByteDance 90 days to divest the U.S….
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS EFFORTS continue to end Zimbabwe’s decades-long political crisis, MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti, pictured, says any meaningful national dialogue that is to take place in the country should necessarily involve the military. Speaking to the Daily News in an exclusive interview yesterday, the shrewd lawyer-turned-politician said the…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has become the latest casualty of the MDC’s mindless bloodletting, after he was removed from office yesterday together with five other councillors, the Daily News reports. The Glen Norah councillor became the mayor of the capital city in September 2018, after the Harare City Council…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has seriously affected the second session of the 9th Parliament which will soon come to an end. This comes as both the National Assembly and the Senate are not sitting as the country is grappling with the spread of the deadly Covid-19. Legal watchdog…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE ongoing labour unrest in the health sector is contributing to the increase of daily Covid-19 deaths in the country as patients are not able to receive medical treatment, health experts have said. This comes as the country recorded nine Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday with the total death toll…
