POLICE have arrested three members of the elite Presidential Guard, as well as a former broadcaster, after they allegedly assaulted villagers and tried to forcefully take over a gold mine in Mt Darwin, the Daily News reports. This comes as authorities have launched a crackdown against machete-wielding gangs across the country’s mining belts — following…
HARARE North MDC Member of Parliament Allan Markham’s application challenging the State-run Grain Marketing Board (GMB)’s monopoly to buy and sell maize will be heard by High Court judge Clement Phiri on Thursday. Markham, who buys and sells maize in communities to support a number of charities, and Murewa-based farmer Clever Rambanapasi, are jointly challenging…
FORMER Labour deputy minister, Tapiwa Matangaidze and his wife of 24 years — Rebecca Matangaidze (nee Chimbera) — have officially divorced after the High Court granted the request for the two to part ways. Chimbera filed the divorce papers claiming the marriage between the two had irretrievably broken down. In terms of the divorce decree,…
EDUCATORS in the country have expressed dismay over government’s decisions to overlook assistants of teachers living with disability when it gave a cushioning allowance to civil servants, the Daily News reports. Government awarded a $750 cushioning allowance across the board this month to hedge their income against inflation but left out those who work with…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has pooh-poohed threats by the government at the weekend that authorities would arrest him if he mounted any unsanctioned demonstrations, the Daily News reports. The MDC boss said yesterday that the reality was that authorities were completely powerless to stop Zimbabweans from holding protests against the government and the country’s worsening…
CHURCHES will early next month hold a memorial service to commemorate the life of Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church leader Bishop Tefius Mugodhi who died end of last year. Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches Council (Zacc) patron Jimayi Muduvuri told the Daily News that his organisation has started preparing for the event. “We are going to buy the…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has rolled out a cartographic census mapping exercise for the 2022 population and housing census, it’s fifth since independence in 1980. According to Zimstat Director General Taguma Mahonde, prior to conducting the Population and Housing Census, it is a requirement that a cartographic census mapping exercise be carried out….
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa has said they are consulting other unions so that they will embark on a general strike as they want to avoid victimisation from the State security agents. Mutasa told the Daily News recently that teachers and doctors have not had successful strikes because of alleged victimisation…
GOVERNMENT will soon have powers to borrow money from international institutions without Parliament approval if proposed amendments are passed. Legal watchdog Veritas said it is not wise for the government to amend the section. To amend section 327 so as to remove or reduce Parliament’s powers will be utterly pernicious and will encourage a return…
ZIMBABWE today begins a public hearing on how to provide for rights and benefits of veterans of the liberation struggle and their dependants. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services will hold public hearings on the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Bill from Monday to Friday next week. Two teams of…
