A CHINESE national, Zhang Xuelin, has been arrested after he reportedly shot and injured two of his employees in Gweru over a salary dispute. In a statement, the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe yesterday said they were concerned about the 41-year-old’s actions. “We are highly concerned about the case in which a Chinese employee of a…
A COMPANY, which was initially awarded a US$19 million contract to supply maize to the country before the government terminated the deal, is seeking a High Court interdict to overturn the invalidation of the agreement. Blue Chip, trading as Tbacha (Pvt) Ltd (Tbacha), want the respondents, Finance ministry, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Grain…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE High Court has cleared five cops who were jailed 18 months each for allegedly attacking a Harare man and gouging out his eye in 2017. Joseph Musakwa acquitted police officers Livingstone Zvimba, Tendai Musungambira, Evans Mashonganyika, Sunday Nyaude and Dale Khulekani. Musakwa noted how the court had erred in…
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) — over the country’s deteriorating economic situation, the Daily News reports. This comes as workers are struggling to make ends meet due to the ever rising local inflation and prices of…
UNIVERSITIES and colleges will open full throttle next month with other not writing attending classes physically, Higher Education minister Amon Murwira said. This comes as schools have set July 28 as their opening date. Speaking before the parliamentary portfolio committee for Higher Education, Murwira said tertiary institutions have started to open in phases. “The ministry…
TWO more people have been nabbed in connection with the alleged siphoning of $158 million from POSB Bank in a case which has sucked in the bank accounts clerk. Hazel Makarau, 42, and Malvin Makarau, 39, appeared in court charged with fraud and were remanded out of custody on $5 000 bail each. It…
BULAWAYO High Court judge Nokuthula Moyo has dismissed with costs an application by a local civic society organisation Habakkuk Trust, which sought to interdict Parliament from conducting public hearings across the country on the proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 2 Bill. Habakkuk Trust, through its lawyers, had filed an urgent chamber application seeking an order directing…
PANICKY retailers and suppliers have started rejecting coins, $2 and $5 bond notes as the local currency continues to collapse on the country’s active black market, demanding, instead, to be paid in the much more stable United States (US) dollar. This comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced, with effect from today,…
Assistant Editor ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (ZESN) recently hosted the third virtual Public Meeting in the series ‘Making Elections Make Sense in the COVID-19 Era.’ The meeting had six panellists representing varied expertise on the subject areas of the proposed provisions in the Constitutional Amendment Bill. These comprised of Constitutional Law Expert Reg Austin; Constitutional…
CHINA has hailed the efforts being made by the government to contain the Covid-19 epidemic, which has so far killed six people in the country out of 486 infections. Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Guo Shaochun said this during a media briefing in Harare last week on the virtual ‘Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against Covid-19’…
