A HARARE man will spend the next 30 days behind bars after being caught selling aphrodisiacs without lawful authority. Shylaw Madimbu, 27, pleaded guilty to the charges when he appeared before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga, but was not given a fine option after he started lying in court. This was after Taruvinga had asked him…
POLICE are investigating a group of 25 villagers who allegedly armed themselves with knives, knobkerries and stones and threatened a farmer in Kezi who had impounded their cattle and 88 donkeys after straying into his farm. “They (villagers) went on to damage some property at the farm leading to the arrest of 10 people. An…
A NIGERIAN scammer, who claimed to be a son to the late Democratic Republic of Congo president Laurent Kabila before fleecing a local medical doctor of US$30 000, was jailed for five years. Joseph Blawah, 46, and his accomplice who is still at large, made George Danda believe that they had inherited large sums of…
SINCE the country’s national lockdown which commenced on March 30, prices of basic commodities have continued to skyrocket beyond the reach of ordinary Zimbabweans. This is despite a government directive that prices revert back to where they were before the lockdown. Prices of basic goods that include sugar, cooking oil, bread and mealie-meal continue to…
Maxwell Sibanda ASSISTANT EDITOR sibandam@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT’s proposal to amend the Constitution for the second time in two years should follow a more consultative, cooperative and consensus-based approach, an election watchdog has warned. Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) said while it acknowledges that the Constitution is not set in stone it discourages unilateralism based on numerical…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER smhlophe@dailynews.co.zw OVER 90 years ago, Scottish researcher Alexander Fleming accidentally stumbled upon a mould while at the time experimenting with an influenza virus in a Laboratory of the Inoculation Department at St Mary’s Hospital in London. Often described as a careless lab technician, his accidental stumble on the mould led…
Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw HEALTH experts have raised concerns over the use of dirty face masks, arguing that it is unhygienic as this breeds bacteria, the Daily News can report. This comes as the government made it mandatory for every citizen to wear a face mask which protects the mouth and nose from possible…
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s lawyer, Thabani Mpofu, on Monday morning surrendered himself to the police at Morris Depot, Harare. This followed reports that the police were looking for him for unknown allegations. “Just been informed that Advocate Thabani Mpofu presented himself to the police in the company of Lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa after indications that the…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw HEALTH experts have once again bemoaned the rising cases of coronavirus in the country — especially those related to local transmission, the Daily News reports. This comes after the number of Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 infections jumped to 174 over the weekend. The president of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE Environmental Lawyers Association (Zela) has called on the government to fast track the legalisation framework of small-scale and artisanal miners in addition to improving the gold trading framework in efforts to curb the illicit sale of minerals. This comes as Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) recently introduced a…
