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WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, is using every platform to denounce targeted sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States and the European Union (EU), analysts contend he must do what is required to have them lifted. They say Harare’s re-engagement with the international community must be predicated on behaviour consistent with international standards. [GoogleAd]…

Corporate donations for Cyclone Idai relief funds are flooding in and pledges continue to be made. Listed companies, banks, law firms and private companies are among the prominent corporate donors. Listed companies in Manicaland such as Meikles’s Tanganda Estates and Ariston’s farming plantations in Chipinge and Nyanga lost their crop which was pummelled by Cyclone…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government — widely condemned for its slow response to Cyclone Idai — said yesterday it had reacted swiftly to the disaster and was on ground to coordinate rescue efforts, with security agencies  busy  trying to open access routes and save the marooned. Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi said…

A Harare magistrate yesterday set April 9 as the trial date for suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe, who was charged earlier this year with criminal abuse of office. Magistrate Lucy Mungwari set the date at a hearing at Rotten Row magistrates’ court where he was represented by his legal counsel Jonathan Samukange. Guvamombe had objected…

Prosecutors yesterday dropped criminal abuse of office charges against Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-general Gift Kallisto Machengete, bringing to a close a case that saw witnesses refusing to take the stand. Witnesses failed to attend court in the $1,4 million criminal abuse of office charge against Machengete, with the State announcing the decision…

KADOMA City Council (KCC) has floated a tender for water reticulation piping material for Golden Heights low density suburb. In a notice, the council is inviting bidders to supply high density polyethylene and unplasticised polyvinyl chloride water reticulation piping material for the suburb. This comes after KCC reported recently that it requires around $4 million…

SHAMVA Gold Mine is today set lose mining and office equipment because of niggling debts. [GoogleAd] The Sheriff of the High Court has since instructed Miracle Auctioneers to sell by public auction an assortment of equipment to recover money owed to Simbarashe Moyo and Blessing Chisango. In the case of the mine’s indebtedness to Moyo,…

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa railed at party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora’s ally in Masvingo last weekend, blaming him for the opposition party’s poor showing in the region during last year’s harmonised elections. The MDC won only one parliamentary seat in Masvingo out of a possible 26 in the July 30, 2018 elections in which Chamisa narrowly…

A HARARE cleric pricked some of his colleagues’ conscience yesterday when he queried the frenzied push for relaxed payment terms for outstanding rates when some pastors are currently leading lavish lifestyles. [GoogleAd] This was during a meeting convened by Harare mayor Herbert Gomba yesterday to chart the way forward following council’s threats to name and…

ZIMBABWEANS are slowly coming to full terms with the horrific scale of devastation that Cyclone Idai wreaked in the country — amid confirmation late yesterday that torrential rains and landfalls had claimed the lives of at least 98 people over the past few days, the Daily News can report. And as the weather began to…