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© PARLIAMENT is probing MDC MP for Matabeleland South Province (proportional representation) Lindiwe Maphosa for breaching Parliament’s code of conduct after she allegedly labelled liberation war collaborators wartime sex workers. [GoogleAd] Following a point of privilege raised by Zanu PF MP for Mberengwa East Marko Ridza last week on Tuesday complaining that Maphosa had denigrated…

© TREASURY splashed over $20 million on top-of-the-range vehicles for Members of Parliament and Senators in the ninth Parliament, which the recipients will start receiving this week. Government acquired Toyota Hilux double cabs valued between US$40 000 and US$60 000 each. [GoogleAd] Considering the bicameral Parliament has a total of 350 MPs and Senators, at…

© Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure appeared in court yesterday after he violated his bail conditions. [GoogleAd] Masaraure is on remand on allegations of plotting to topple a constitutionally-elected government by urging people to protest against fuel hikes in January. Harare provincial magistrate Barbra Mateko remanded Masaraure in custody to…

© THE opposition Zapu wants Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to honour its late leader and national hero, Dumiso Dabengwa, by naming one of the city’s streets after him, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] Dabengwa died last month aged 79 — after succumbing to a liver-related ailment. Although the late liberation stalwart was declared a…

© VICE President Constantino Chiwenga’s prolonged absence from the public glare should be a source of major concern, especially in view of the enormity of the challenges facing the country, analysts have said. [GoogleAd] Chiwenga has been in-and-out of office since his appointment as VP in 2017 due to ill-health. In October, government said the…

© THERE was widespread public outrage at the weekend after under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube remarked that the skyrocketing prices of basic goods in the country had dropped in US dollar terms since January last year — with many people deeming him to be terribly lacking in empathy for long-suffering Zimbabweans, the Daily News can…

© REVELATIONS by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he wishes to be succeeded by a younger person have thrown wide open his succession, which many believed was a closed chapter. [GoogleAd] Speaking on a listener-based programme on State-owned Capitalk FM called “Catching up with ED” last week, the 76-year-old Zanu PF leader intimated that he should…

© FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) board chairperson Albert Mugabe wrote a letter to CBZ Bank guaranteeing a private mortgage facility for the parastatal’s chief executive officer without a board resolution, a court heard last week. [GoogleAd] Mugabe is accused of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly wrote to CBZ Bank misrepresenting that…

© A BRITISH safari boss is charging callous trophy hunters thousands of pounds to kill lions that have been bred in captivity, [GoogleAd] The Mail on Sunday has revealed.Gruesome photographs show Alex Goss posing beside the bodies of two lions after they were slaughtered during hunts in South Africa. He is believed to be the…