By Rutendo Ngara ONE of the alleged protesters who were chanting anti-President Emmerson Mnangagwa slogans on March 31 was yesterday granted bail by Harare High Court judge Phillipa Phillips. This followed calls for protests on the day by expelled former Zanu PF central committee member, Blessed Geza, to oust Mnangagwa. The court ruled that Munyaradzi…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw IT HAS come to light that a new political party is on the agenda of many opposition stalwarts, to take on the ruling Zanu PF in the country’s next harmonised elections slated for 2028. Well-placed sources who spoke to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — confirmed the plans…
THE country’s second city is fighting to improve its transport system, including the expansion of air traffic into and out of the metro to boost the region’s economy. Speaking during a business engagement meeting here yesterday, mayor David Coltart said it was crucial to revamp the city’s railways system, as well as the key roads…
Stella Madzivanyika madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE Adult Rape Clinic has revealed a disturbing statistic that at least 200 cases of rape are reported every month in the country. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday ahead of today’s World Denim Day, clinic director Maceline Mukwamba said the number is a reflection of the global statistics where one in…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction led by Welshman Ncube has appealed against a recent judgment declaring the terms of office for all party officials elected during the 2019 MDC Alliance congress to have expired last year. This followed an urgent application that was filed by Sengezo Tshabangu…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw HARARE regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa has denied bail to two police officers, Rudo Chirengendure and Nyasha Mupandira, who were seen in a video allegedly receiving a bribe. The officers are facing charges of criminal abuse of office. In denying them bail, Gofa said the two were facing a serious…
SOUTHERN EDITOR THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is poised to revolutionise its development trajectory through partnerships with the Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre (Sirdc) and Midlands State University (MSU). A proposal before the council seeks to formalise these collaborations through Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in several strategic areas. “This initiative follows the correspondence…
GOVERNMENT says they have put all mechanisms in place to ensure winter wheat farmers are not affected by power outages by ring-fencing at least 500 megawatts (MW). The minister of Energy and Power Development, July Moyo, told a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday that they were taking advantage of improved water levels at Kariba…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw KEY stakeholders have called upon authorities to do much more to support hard-pressed Zimbabweans, as poverty levels in the country continue to increase. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — the stakeholders said yesterday that some of the current estimates that suggested that up to 42 percent…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has received an expression of interest from a local private power company to carry out a feasibility study for the proposed installation of a 50-megawatt solar power production plant at Pelandaba Cemetery. The city’s latest council minutes revealed that the large-scale solar facility would pro – duce what…
