HARARE – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) yesterday called on the government to peg its new gold remuneration framework in line with prevailing international rates, saying that the new offer of a fixed US$45 per gramme will be difficult to sustain given the fluctuating yellow metal prices on the global market. This comes as State…
HARARE – Three MDC Alliance activists; Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe and youth leaders Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa have been granted bail Thursday after they appeared before magistrate Barbara Mateko while in hospital. They were granted $1 000 bail each and will have to report to CID Law and Order once every two weeks….
©️ ZIMBABWE’S extended lockdown has resulted in an increase in child marriages across the country, a women’s rights activist has said. President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a national lockdown on March 27 to help curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 350 000 people across the world and affected nearly five…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in Bulawayo ©️ FORTHRIGHT Zanu PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, pictured, has thrown the cat among the pigeons within the ruling party by calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to form a government of national unity (GNU) with the opposition to end the country’s myriad challenges. The respected liberation stalwart…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Nokuthaba Nkomo STAFF WRITERS©️ THE government warned yesterday that more people could contract the lethal coronavirus in the country due to the huge number of Zimbabweans returning from abroad, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe has recorded four deaths from the 56 positive cases of the disease that have been…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ A BINDURA magistrate has sentenced businessman Fradreck Utsiwegota to an effective seven years in jail after finding him guilty of swindling his Singaporean partner of mining equipment worth over US$500 000. Magistrate Tinashe Ndokera initially sentenced Utsiwegota to 10 years in prison, before suspending three years of the…
Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw ©️ AT LEAST 118 people disappeared from various isolation centres throughout the country since the onset of the lockdown, the police have said. This comes as the government said it is concerned about the number of returnees fleeing the centres in a development that may increase infections. “The Zimbabwe Republic…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw©️ INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, pictured, has upped the ante in the war for the control of the country’s main opposition — vowing yesterday that she will eject her rivals from the party’s iconic national headquarters in Harare as soon as the national coronavirus lockdown ends. Khupe’s spokesperson, Khaliphani…
Nokuthaba Nkomo STAFF WRITER nkomon@dailynews.co.zw ALMOST half of the people who have contracted the feared coronavirus in Zimbabwe have fully recovered, the Daily News reports. This comes as the number of infections in the country is rising, amid a global shortage of reagents for test kits — a development which has seen fewer people than…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw PARLIAMENT has reverted to using its premises as it resumes today with only the National Assembly sitting and using the Senate chamber as well to ensure social distancing is observed amid coronavirus (Covid-19) fears, the Daily News reports. This comes as the National Assembly used the Harare International Conference…
