THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), a human rights watchdog, recorded a 55 percent increase in human rights violations in January 2020, as 185 cases were documented compared to 119 documented in December 2019. According to the ZPP’s latest report, the sharp increase can be attributed to increased machete violence and human rights violations by members…
HARARE City Council is scouting for a new investor for the construction of a plant to convert waste into energy at Pomona Dumpsite seven months after halting the project implementation. The local authority terminated a memorandum of understanding (MoU) it signed with Dutch company Integrated Energy BV (IEBV) in May 2019 for the construction of…
ZIMBABWE lacks a robust corruption reporting system that provides recourse to women who fall victim to those in power who demand sex and sexual favours as payment for services rendered, a report has revealed. According to a Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) report titled Gendered Corruption, sexual extortion — a subtle form of a corruption where…
CHIADZWA families relocated to Arda Transau in Odzi nine years ago have accused the government of forsaking the people amid a hostile economic environment and drought. Between 2010 and 2016, 1 165 families were moved from a village adjacent to the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Marange to Arda Transau, a 12 000-hectare farm settlement in…
ZIMBABWE will now be able to test for and diagnose the coronavirus following the attainment of reagents and test kits needed for the process, the Daily News can report. This comes as government was relying on neighbouring South Africa to diagnose suspected cases of the coronavirus as its laboratories did not have the reagents to…
LAWYERS have filed an application at the Constitutional Court, seeking permission to challenge a Supreme Court ruling which ordered the discharge of United States dollar debts incurred before February 22, 2019, in the local Zimbabwean currency at the rate of 1:1. The request comes after Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s Supreme Court ruling, following an appeal filed by…
HIGH Court judge Pisirayi Kwenda has stopped former Tourism and Hospitality minister Prisca Mupfumira’s trial, pending the hearing of her application challenging the Magistrates’ Court’s decision to throw out her application excepting to the criminal charges she is facing. The ruling comes after Mupfumira, who is facing three counts of criminal abuse of office as…
BUSINESSMAN Kudakwashe Tagwirei apparently sold his stake in multinational commodities firm Trafigura to allow him — among other things — to perform his role without conflict as an advisor to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as Tagwirei has been targeted by some Zanu PF officials for the central role he has played in the country’s…
SUSPENDED Zanu PF youth league kingpin, Godfrey Tsenengamu, warned opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, last week to beware of being used by hardliners in both the ruling party and his MDC as he fights to get into power, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zanu PF and MDC hawks are said to be frustrating…
TROUBLE is once again brewing at the country’s second biggest mobile network operator, NetOne, amid accusations of political interference and a fresh bid to oust its highly regarded chief executive officer, the Daily News can reveal. This comes as the targeted CEO, Lazarus Muchenje, has been credited with turning around the fortunes of the government-owned…
