THERE is a debilitating mixture of chaos, confusion and panic among both consumers and businesses across the country, after the government made a surprise announcement late on Friday evening that it would suspend mobile money. This comes as concerned economic experts warned in interviews with the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that the government’s move…
THE government has gazetted a Statutory Instrument (SI) to regulate mobile banking and money transmission in the country, apparently to back up the controversial decision to suspend all monetary transactions on phone-based platforms and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). This comes as authorities have accused mobile platforms and the ZSE of fuelling the rampaging foreign…
AN AUDIT into Harare City Council (HCC)’s accounts has revealed that some of the council’s bank signatories have since left municipal employment. The audit was meant to validate the signatories of bank accounts, establish operational bank accounts and create a permanent audit file for accounts signatories. HCC has 62 active bank accounts and an additional…
PARLIAMENT has recommended a raft of changes to the Constitutional Court Bill which will govern the operations of the Constitutional Court (Con-Court). The Bill seeks to regulate the jurisdiction, powers, practice and procedure of the court as well as providing for the composition, regulation and appeals from decisions of lower courts and other matters connected…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A MACHETE-WIELDING man was struck twice on the head with a shovel and died following a misunderstanding over a textbook. The alleged attacker, Nesbert Kaseke, has since appeared in court on allegations of murder. He was not asked to plead to the charge when he appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Zanu PF legislator Goodwills Masimirembwa has been dragged to court over a botched residential stand sale involving US$72 500. In an application, Donald and Sharon Makanyanga want the High Court to order Divine Homes to transfer all rights and title of the stand and sign the documents for the…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw NEW motorbikes meant for Small to Medium Enterprises ministry district officers around the country have been left to rot for four years, after government failed to distribute them. In a report presented to the National Assembly by the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Small and Medium Enterprises Development, the government…
Helen Kadirire STAFF WRITER kadirireh@dailynews.co.zw THE government has been urged to take seriously allegations of torture levelled against the State, the Daily News can report. The National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG), a civil society organisation, yesterday said that over the years numerous cases of abduction and torture have been reported in the country without…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw HIGH Court judge Pisirai Kwenda yesterday reserved judgment after hearing submissions during the bail appeal of Drax International representative Delish Nguwaya, who is facing two counts of fraud over coronavirus (Covid-19) procurement deals. Kwenda queried why nothing was being said about the manner in which the government deliberately flouted procurement…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw FORMER vice president Phelekezela Mphoko, pictured, who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly ordered the release of two Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) officials at a police station, has asked the courts to drop his charges. He will know his fate on July 7 when…
