THERE are real fears that both the ruling party and the country could be entering a new phase of significant political turmoil leading to the 2023 national elections, the Daily News can report. This comes after former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, pictured, warned at the weekend that he may soon…
THE Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz)’s president has died. Matthew Chimbghandah, who died after a short illness, joined Emcoz as president in 2017 after being a human resources executive of OK Zimbabwe for many years. [GoogleAd] A variety of committees have sent their condolences messages to the bereaved families. “Emcoz executive committee, services committee, labour…
TN LIVESTOCK Trust (Private) Limited (TN) is set to re-open a cattle bank in Featherstone, in a move that will recognise cattle as a bankable asset. [GoogleAd] In a notice, TN — named after its founder, financier and social innovator Tawanda Nyambirai — said a minimum of $25 million will be set aside at Steward…
Former Health and Child Care deputy minister Edwin Muguti is set to lose his house over rental arrears owed to Joyce Mako-Mashaninga. Last year, the court handed a default judgment after Muguti failed to defend Mako-Mushaninga’s suit after failing to pay over $13 600 in rental arrears to his former landlord. [GoogleAd] Muguti, a renowned…
Rights lawyers have filed an urgent chamber application in the High Court challenging government’s decision to suspend the operations of Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Trust (Cotrad), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO). This comes after government, through the office of the Masvingo district administrator (DA), last week told Cotrad to cease operations pending investigation into…
MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi says he will lodge an appeal with the High Court challenging his conviction and sentence. This comes after Komichi was fined $200 for disrupting electoral proceedings during the announcement of presidential election results. [GoogleAd] Komichi was accused of invading the podium at the Harare International Conference Centre where he grabbed…
THE High Court is on Wednesday expected to rule on ex-Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa’s application seeking charges of criminal abuse of office against him dropped. [GoogleAd] Parirenyatwa argued in court papers that the charges were fabricated and only meant to embarrass him. In the application, the former Cabinet minister cited the presiding…
At least 43 people were injured when a CAG bus headed to Harare overturned three times yesterday, police said. The bus, travelling from Victoria Falls, rolled off the highway at the 134-kilometre peg along Kadoma Road in the early hours of the morning, trapping passengers underneath the vehicle, police and paramedics said. [GoogleAd] The cause…
Students at Monte Cassino Girls High, an elite boarding school in Macheke, were sexually abused by teachers in incidents that date back months ago, according to a police report lodged by the girls on Friday. When the Catholic-run boarding school — ranked among Zimbabwe’s top 10 schools in terms of pass rate and supported by…
DOZENS of people had either been killed or were missing when the Daily News on Sunday went to print last night — while large swathes of the country were in distress — as Cyclone Idai battered Zimbabwe yesterday. This came after the tropical cyclone reached the country from Mozambique late on Friday night, knocking down…
