Poor road network infrastructure and unavailability of water is chasing away investors who want to invest in Zimbabwe, District Development Fund (DDF) permanent secretary James Jonga has said. [GoogleAd] In an interview with the Daily News during a tour of road works in Harare and Bindura, Jonga said the progress on road repairs and maintenance was…
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured, is expected in the country next week on Monday for the third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC), which will among other things enhance business relations between the two countries. [GoogleAd] Deputy Information minister Energy Mutodi confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that Ramaphosa will be in the…
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is not capable of addressing the Gukurahundi question, Mthawakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said. [GoogleAd] In a statement, MRP president Mqondisi Moyo said if the NPRC was credible, it could have been engaged in probing the violence that occurred in Harare on August 1, in the aftermath of last…
Zimbabwe’s elephant population has declined by 10 percent over the last eight years, the Zambezi Elephant Fund (Zef) has said. In a statement released last week to mark World Wildlife Day, Zef, which was formed in 2015 to actively address poaching in the Zambezi Valley, said elephants were now under increased threat. [GoogleAd] “Zimbabwe is…
MDC MP for Harare West Joana Mamombe who was arrested on Saturday after attending to Parliament business in Nyanga, yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts where she was formally charged with treason. Mamombe yesterday challenged her placement on remand arguing that the police had breached the 48-hour provision, which is the time between a…
A 57-YEAR-old Harare man is in hot soup after he allegedly crashed into the lead car of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s motorcade. [GoogleAd] Dennis Chiwawa, 57, is being charged for contravening Section 52 (2) of the Road Traffic Act for negligent driving. He is undergoing trial while on bail. In his defence Chiwawa told…
MUTARE – Firebrand political activist Lynette Mudehwe has filed a court application demanding the incarceration of Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Commissioner-General of Police Godwin Matanga for failing to comply with a court order to pay her $6 000 in compensation. [GoogleAd] Mudehwe was granted compensation after she was brutally assaulted by the police as she…
ZANU PF youth league has escalated its attacks on former leader Robert Mugabe, pictured, whom it now wants stripped of all honours bestowed on him during his disastrous 37 years at the helm of the country. [GoogleAd] This follows Mugabe’s withering criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s style of governance, particularly his government’s vicious crackdown against…
THE MDC’s national standing committee (NSC) meets in the capital city tomorrow to finalise congress preparations amid serious jostling for positions among party bigwigs. Slated to run from May 24 to 26, the elective congress is the first to be held following the death of the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February last year….
HARARE – The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has merged Harare province with Chitungwiza while Midlands North and South have been collapsed into one as part of preparations for its elective congress slated for May. [GoogleAd] MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume told the Daily News that the party was merely implementing a 2014 congress resolution whose implementation had…
