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© Former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa must also be arrested for releasing Zanu PF’s Godfrey Gomwe after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) accused him of abuse of office by ordering the release of then Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) acting chief executive officer Moses Juma and non-executive director Davison Norupiri…

©  Government has announced that it would be creating for the first time a national emergency operations centre after hundreds of people were killed and thousands others missing or displaced after a devastating cyclone hit Manicaland. Climate change department director Washington Zhakata told a joint workshop here that the government has successfully mobilised a US$3…

Nelson Chamisa’s MDC has said police have been stalking, calling and summoning his Manicaland officials falsely accusing them of plotting to unleash violence during the planned Thursday protests in the city. Four senior party officials — provincial organising secretary Freddy Dziwande, his deputy Itayi Masaka, home affairs secretary Knowledge Nyamhoka and secretary for intelligence Zivanai…

© The MDC has claimed that three of their officials, including youth leader and deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, were on Saturday night abducted by suspected State agents ahead of yesterday’s planned demonstrations. Addressing journalists, the party’s national spokesperson Daniel Molokele said the party’s provincial secretary for the youth assembly Pashu Sibanda, his father and Kambarami were…

© Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church (Mugodhi Church) is in a leadership wrangle in which authorities are challenging appointment of the leader’s son as the acting bishop. Mugodhi Church wants (Bishop) Tadewu Mugodhi and his son Washington, Innocent Mugodhi and Enock Mugodhi interdicted from interfering with the institution’s operations in alleged breach of their constitution. [GoogleAd]…

© A 90-day imprisonment order passed against the late property mogul Edward Nyanyiwa — who was popularly known as Eddies Pfugari — is now haunting his son. Knowe Residents and Ratepayers Association (Knowe Residents) have made an application for substitution of Nyanyiwa with his son as respondent in a matter the late property developer was…

© MDC MP for Goromonzi South Rueben Chikudo has demanded Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to update the National Assembly on government’s mega deals which they signed in the last 10 years. According to Parliament Order Paper, Chikudo said Parliament has a right to know the progress being made in as far as those mega deals…

© HARARE City Council is working on modalities to start constructing secondary schools to complement government. Mayor Herbert Gomba told the Daily News that the schools would ensure that school going children would not have to travel long distances to get an education. The move comes as Harare has begun construction of three primary schools…

© PARLIAMENT has accused the country’s security forces of abusing women and called on the executive to put in place an independent complaints mechanism to deal with such cases without fear of victimisation. The National Assembly is set to debate a motion by opposition MDC MPs Regai Tsunga (Mutasa South) and Miriam Mushayi (Kuwadzana) in…

THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Manicaland leadership has vowed to push through the planned August 22 demonstrations in Mutare despite a police ban on similar protests that had been earmarked for Harare and Bulawayo. The party’s August 9 notification for the intended demonstration in Mutare is, however, yet to be responded to. [GoogleAd] Mutare had been…