Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat ZANU PF has opened doors for appeals by those claiming they were cheated during last weekend’s parliamentary and council primary polls with a number of bigwigs, including Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, lodging their complaints yesterday. This comes after many Zanu PF bigwigs, including a number of ministers and serving legislators,…
LEGISLATORS have pleaded with the government to quickly address their welfare or for Parliament to go for a break until the issues of their well-being and a serious hotel accommodation crisis are resolved. Both the Senate and the National Assembly resumed sitting yesterday after a one-week recess. Speaking in the National Assembly, Citizens Coalition for…
THE Supreme Court has set aside a High Court ruling for a private company Delatfin Investments to return construction equipment it had hired from Chitungwiza Municipality. Delatfin Investments owed the local authority a front-end loader, a grader and three bulldozers after it breached an agreement that the two parties entered in 2007 for the company…
By Blessings Mashaya and Brighton Muronzereyi WHILE it is too early to know the full implications of the results of Zanu PF’s dramatic primaries on the country’s body politic, the indications are that this could consolidate the ruling party’s power after this year’s national elections, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the analysts…
By Ketty Noyni PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the country’s judiciary system to act in a non-partisan manner when dealing with political violence cases, as the country hurtles towards general elections set to be held before the end of August. Speaking during the official opening of magistrates’ court in Epworth yesterday, Mnangagwa called on…
THE Supreme Court has ordered former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her company, Ruzirun to settle a debt owed to a couple, Sabrina and Tony Sarpo. Mujuru owes over US$226 000 to the Sarpos after she refused to use the interbank rate to pay for farming equipment that she had purchased through their company Peppy…
By Rutendo Ngara FARMERS say they will be forced to sell their produce to informal grain buyers as the 2023 marketing season starts due to low prices being offered by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), which is the sole buying agent. This comes as Zimbabwe is expected to produce a bumper harvest of 3.1 million…
By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) wants Zesa to decentralise power supplies to the local authority’s water pumping stations and save its water pipes from further damage due to rolling power cuts. Like most parts of the country, Bulawayo is experiencing punishing daily power cuts lasting for up to 15 hours affecting both…
IT IS harvesting season, and tobacco farmer Ian Nhata is making final preparations before transporting his golden leaf to the market in…
NOT even the current and startling ‘gold mafia’ allegations could put a damper on the attendance and energy witnessed at Zanu PF’s primaries at the weekend, which the ruling party seemingly used as a show of force to the opposition ahead of this year’s crunch national elections. This comes after Zanu PF held one of…
