Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITERS ©️ INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa lost his cool in Parliament on Thursday after he was chastised by deputy National Assembly Speaker Tsitsi Gezi for disrespecting fellow MPs, the Daily News can report. Mliswa resorted to using some unprintable words towards Zanu PF MP for Seke, Munyaradzi…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ MEMBERS of Parliament have suggested that the safest time to re-open schools as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country is in summer. This comes as government has, through Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema, announced that schools would re-open in phases, starting with final examinations…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw MEDICAL experts and human rights activists are up in arms over the government’s controversial plans to make public the names of all the people infected with the lethal coronavirus, the Daily News reports. This comes after Health minister Obadiah Moyo, pictured, made a surprise announcement in Parliament on Wednesday…
Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES yesterday pooh-poohed the alleged recent abduction and torture claims by MDC Alliance youth leaders who had participated in a flash demo in Harare, the Daily News reports. This comes as the three women at the centre of the furore — Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the country is importing adequate fuel not to warrant shortages, but there is indiscipline in the oil sector, the Daily News reports. This comes at a time motorists are spending hours in fuel queues across the country. Appearing before the parliamentary…
MDC acting president Thokozani Khupe has agreed to hold a meeting of the party’s 2014 structures to consider the March Supreme Court ruling directing it to call for an extraordinary congress to choose a substantive leader. This comes after 151 out of a possible 200 members who constituted the MDC 2014 national council structures met…
STATE-OWNED mobile network operator NetOne on Friday planted 101 indigenous trees at its Cleveland premises to mark World Environment Day (WED). The trees will have many environmental benefits including preserving the wetlands in that area and reduce erosion. This initiative was undertaken under the company’s Corporate Social Initiative pillar dubbed “One Environment”. This is…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ AUTHORITIES appeared to have further beefed up security in Harare yesterday, with more police officers and soldiers visible around the capital — as Covid-19 infections and political tensions continue to rise in the country, the Daily News reports. This comes after the government barred tens of thousands of…
ZIMBABWE has never needed a stronger political opposition than now, a time of worsening economic challenges that portend an imminent regression to the calamitous crisis of a decade ago. Dishearteningly, our opposition leaders still don’t appear to appreciate the fact that the fight for a better and more inclusive democracy requires both diligent strategies and…
Tarisai Machakaire and Tendai Kamhungira STAFF WRITERS PROSECUTORS yesterday said prominent lawyer Thabani Mpofu faced up to 20 years in jail if convicted of charges of corruption and defeating the course of justice he is facing. Mpofu, who is also opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s lawyer, appeared before chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi and was granted $20…
