© HARD-pressed Zimbabweans yesterday responded to the Black Friday promotion with hordes of shoppers invading retail outlets in search of bargains. Shoppers queued at outlets such as Edgars in Harare with security guards battling to contain the crowds after the shop slashed the prices of beauty products and clothes by up to 70 percent. [GoogleAd]…
© FORMER Zanu PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga was yesterday issued with a warrant of arrest after he failed to appear in court to answer charges of criminal nuisance for wearing the party’s regalia. Chipanga’s co-accomplices, former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo, who had briefly travelled to South Africa for cancer treatment, and ex-Zanu PF official…
© THE net is closing in on 75 bigwigs allegedly involved in corrupt activities as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it has approached some regional and European countries for assistance in recovering externalised funds and assets. Zacc chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo told the Daily News yesterday on the sidelines of the joint official opening of…
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has put his party officials in Parliament, council and party on performance-based appraisals with a view to weed out incompetent individuals he claims are doing a disservice to the party, the Daily News reports. Speaking through his spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda, in an interview yesterday, Chamisa said he had directed all MDC…
© LAWYERS yesterday petitioned the government to institute an independent complaint mechanism to ensure accountability of law enforcement agents who breach the law following the assault of a fellow legal practitioner Doug Coltart. The lawyers marched from the High Court in Harare to Home Affairs ministry and police headquarters where the petition was delivered. They…
© HIGH Court judge Happious Zhou has recused himself from the case in which South Africa-based busi- nessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi is locked in a child custody wrangle with his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa. This comes after Muteswa recently wrote a letter to judge president George Chiweshe seeking to have the matter allocated to a different…
© STRIKING doctors yesterday rejected the government’s offer for them to return to work without suffering sanctions — saying they would only do so once their wages and working conditions are reviewed, the Daily News reports. This comes as authorities have so far fired 448 doctors and also placed 100 others under disciplinary proceedings. [GoogleAd]…
© GANG of suspected armed robbers, who masqueraded as po- lice officers and terrorised illegal foreign currency dealers, were hauled before the courts yesterday. Sibanengi Nawire, Lovemore Ncube, Musa Masuku, Raymond Masawi, and Kudakwashe Musoni allegedly targeted forex dealers from May last year until they were arrested this week. [GoogleAd] During their robbery spree which…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s surprising decision to reinstate subsidies on grain and wheat — embarrassing his Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured in the process — betrays the level of anxiety within government over the country’s worsening economic rot, analysts say. [GoogleAd] This comes amid growing fears of civil unrest in the country, following yet another…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government yesterday made a dramatic climbdown on its controversial decision to fire more than 400 doctors by giving the medical practitioners a two-day moratorium to return to work after an intervention from the Catholic Church. Addressing journalists after a three-hour meeting with the Catholic Bishop Conference headed by Archbishop Robert Ndlovu…
