SIX suspects have been arrested following the violence witnessed at Barbourfields Stadium at the weekend during a football match between Dynamos and Highlanders, which left eight people injured. Then, Highlanders hooligans — whose team was the away side in the match — stormed the pitch with Bosso trailing by two goals to nil to their…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa VETERAN opposition member Ian Makone, who is the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ward 18 councillor, was yesterday elected as the new mayor of Harare. He replaces Jacob Mafume, also from the CCC. Makone, who garnered 46 out of 59 votes against Zanu PF’s Temai Utete of ward 1, will be deputised…
THE government says there is no bad blood between Zambia and Zimbabwe, despite the damning report released by the Sadc observer mission led by former Zambian Vice President, Nevers Mumba, on the recently held general elections. The Sadc mission, which cast aspersions on the credibility and freeness of the polls, has been criticised for harbouring…
By Brandon Josphat AUTHORITIES say the current power outages the country is facing are attributed to technical faults, mainly at Hwange Thermal Power Station. This comes after the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company issued statements to highlight areas where power supply would be interrupted because of technical faults. According to statistics provided by the…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has cancelled Tetrad Investment Bank’s licence following the financial institution’s voluntary surrender. In a statement yesterday, the central bank said Tetrad did not have any depositors on its books at the time it surrendered its licence. “The Registrar of Banking Institutions has cancelled Tetrad Investment Bank Limited licence with…
THE pending announcement of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s full new Cabinet team is currently a tale of intense suspense among ministerial hopefuls and much public speculation. At the same time, consumer watchdogs, labour representatives and business leaders want the new team to focus on consolidating the country’s relative economic stability of the past few months, including…
ZIMBABWE has recorded more than 1 800 veld fires across the country, with property worth US$10 000 destroyed since the start of the fire season in July, the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has confirmed. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Ema spokesperson Amkela Sidange said the agency had also laid criminal charges against offenders who…
ZIMBABWE expects to receive normal to below normal rainfall with parts of the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces getting below normal rains for…
By Emmanuel Marambe marambee@dailynews.co.zw HIGHLANDERS supporters stormed the pitch yesterday, leading to the abandonment of their side’s high profile clash with Dynamos at a packed Barbourfields Stadium. The barbaric scenes saw overwhelmed police and Dynamos fans being at the receiving end of disturbing violence from the irate Bosso fans, whose team was the away side…
THE Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, has challenged the newly-elected MPs to be well-versed in the country’s Constitution. Speaking in the National Assembly in Mt Hampden at the weekend after taking oath of office before Chief Justice Luke Malaba, he told the MPs that the oath they took on Thursday and Friday was…
