© BRITAIN’S 40-year effort to find a way to either influence or dislodge Robert Mugabe is one of the country’s great post-war foreign policy failures. [GoogleAd] It is a story spanning six UK prime ministers, nearly £1 billion in aid and every conceivable strategy. Whether the cause of that failure lies at the door of…
© AS MORE details emerge about former president Robert Mugabe’s final days, his wife Grace apparently made frantic last ditch efforts to have President Emmerson Mnangagwa by her husband’s bedside last week, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes as many of Mugabe’s exiled relatives and loyalists — including his nephew Patrick Zhuwao, and…
IN AN astonishing development which further raises questions on the credibility of its anti-corruption crusade, the Zanu PF Youth League has recanted allegations it made against businessman Frank Buyanga despite having initially insisted it had evidence that he was implicated in graft activities. [GoogleAd] South African based Zimbabwean businessman and founder of the African Medallion…
© BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has shut its doors on former deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, after barring him from reporting for duty pending the finalisation of his Supreme Court appeal. [GoogleAd] Kambarami, who was last year found guilty of theft charges, is challenging a recent High Court judgment which declared his election into office null…
© THERE is confusion at Chitungwiza Town Council, with both George Makunde and David Duma claiming to be the legitimate town clerk. [GoogleAd] Makunde was suspended last Monday by mayor Lovemore Maiko. The decision was endorsed by a full council meeting which then appointed director of works Duma as acting town clerk. This, however, did…
© HARARE’S water supply continues to dwindle with the city only able to supply less than 50 percent of the population. [GoogleAd] Acting Harare water director Mabhena Moyo said by July this year the water coverage had fallen from 50 percent to 42 percent. The situation in the capital city has reached dire levels, with…
© ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo has said the Supreme Court’s ruling against former Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira’s bail application indicates that the correct procedure was followed in her detention for 21 days without being eligible to apply for bail. [GoogleAd] Matanda-Moyo said the Supreme Court had confirmed that Zacc and the prosecutor…
© PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals says shortages of nurses and functional health equipment led to the death of a woman who was giving birth and her baby last Sunday. [GoogleAd] The woman, identified as Sharon Munyonho, died amid claims that nurses at the hospital’s Mbuya Nehanda maternity wing ignored her calls for help. Mbuya Nehanda…
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has sanctioned but imposed stringent conditions for the opposition MDC’s 20th anniversary celebrations scheduled for September 14…
© MINISTER of State in Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s office Davison Marapira has been hit with a lawsuit following a botched R1 million cash deal. [GoogleAd] According to summons filed at the High Court, sometime in October 2018 Marapira became aware that a company called Lyonais Investments (Pvt) Ltd wanted to purchase a fuel tanker…
