© A CHINHOYI University of Technology (Cut) student, Munyaradzi Africa Sakurangaranga, died after he was run over by the institution’s bus. [GoogleAd] “The tragic death was a result of an accident involving our university bus on campus as students jostled to get on the bus to go home. “The university takes full responsibility and is…
© THE Constitutional Court will tomorrow hear an application filed by a Harare lawyer who is seeking to overturn the appointment of Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi. Joshua Chirambwe’s challenge comes barely a fortnight after another man, Simbarashe Zuze made a similar demand. [GoogleAd] In his application, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), Chief Justice…
© A 27-year-old police constable Moses Nigel Jalasi has been arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of his step-daughter last Friday. [GoogleAd] The incident happened at the ZRP-owned Northampton Flats in Eastlea in Harare, on Friday afternoon. The 20-year-old victim was allegedly assaulted before being raped. According to police, the…
© COUNCIL is resuming water disconnections and repossession of properties of residents who collectively owe the municipality over RTGS$184 million in unpaid water and rates. According to the latest council minutes, the city fathers are revoking an earlier undertaking, suspending water disconnections and seizure of properties for non-paying residents who were not acting with impunity….
© CHEGUTU West Zanu PF MP Dexter Nduna has been acquitted of unlawfully discharging a firearm in a public place. This comes after the State failed to provide enough evidence against the lawmaker. [GoogleAd] Nduna was hauled before the courts on allegations of public violence. He was alleged to have discharged a firearm during Zanu…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is gearing itself up for waves of crippling labour unrest owing to the continued erosion of disposable incomes due to skyrocketing prices. The Daily News can report that morale in the civil service has plumped to its lowest ebb, with doctors and teachers threatening to down tools over poor salaries….
© THE main opposition MDC has retained Mutasa ward 10 in a by election held on Saturday. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) conducted the election after councillor Frank Chitembwe was convicted and jailed for three years for participating in the January violent protests. MDC’s Tanyaradzwa Rose Mukodza won the vote after polling 801 votes ahead…
© BOTH serving and former Cabinet ministers are feeling the heat from the country’s power utility, the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa), which is increasingly turning to the courts in a desperate bid to recover millions of dollars owed to it by politicians. [GoogleAd] Among these bigwigs is former Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, who…
© IN AN unusually frank admission, and as Zimbabwe’s economic crisis bites harder, the ruling Zanu PF says it is scared stiff of the possibility of mass uprisings — similar to those which have ravaged countries such as Sudan, Algeria, Libya and Venezeula — the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] As a result, President Emmerson…
© A spate of fires at the Glen View 8 home industry have prompted the Harare City Council to mull relocating the populous home market to Glen View 1. The area’s recent fire-related accidents have prompted the informal sector committee to issue a news release announcing they were taking steps to ensure people stay safe….
