AMID worsening poverty, Zanu PF will early next month splash millions on a solidarity rally for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose administration is accused of human rights abuses and failing to stabilise the economy. [GoogleAd] Allies of the president are already knocking at the doors of the corporate sector for donations to fund the event, which…
WORK by the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to compile information on what really happened during the Gukurahundi era will begin next month. Commissioner Leslie Ncube told the Daily News on Tuesday that the NPRC will from mid next month start to gather as much information as possible as part of the building blocks…
MDC party leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, has left the country on a mission to brief unnamed African leaders about the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe. In a statement, the party’s director of communications Luke Tamborinyoka said Chamisa is “on a diplomatic offensive in Africa to sensitise the continent on the situation in Zimbabwe”. [GoogleAd] Without disclosing…
HARARE – A Harare court yesterday turned away a challenge to the prosecution of three Grain Marketing Board Pension Fund (GMBPF) executives facing charges of defrauding the grain utility of $1 million. Harare regional magistrate Lucy Mungwari declined to take up an appeal by executives Korbs Kobie Mutandiro, 59, Basilio Sandamu, 64, and Taona Munzvandi,…
There is a looming chronic workforce shortage at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ordered the body to disengage all serving members of the security services within its employment, with a leading legal watchdog saying it was vital for Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to allow the NPA to recruit new staff….
HARARE – A Harare man appeared in court yesterday charged with hacking into tax agency, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)’s computer system in collaboration with the agency’s employee to steal $2 million. Manase Manjova, 34, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa. [GoogleAd] The case was postponed to today for bail considerations. Manjova allegedly connived…
HARARE City Council (HCC) is set to introduce a stricter water rationing regime as dam levels at Lake Chivero continue dwindling. Acting distribution manager Tapiwa Kunyadini told a full council meeting that the city’s raw water was now very concentrated with nitrogen and phosphorus because there has not been any significant rains. [GoogleAd] The engineer’s…
HARARE – Top world labour unions yesterday came out guns blazing against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime over the arrest of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) general-secretary for Africa Kwasi Adu-Amankwah. Amankwah was picked up on Tuesday just after checking into a Harare hotel just after his arrival at the Robert Mugabe International Airport. Africa’s foremost…
HARARE – Last month, government allowed a fleet of private buses to join forces with the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) in servicing cities and towns so as to counter the high transport costs that were being charged by kombi operators. The exorbitant fares had adversely affected workers and school children who commute daily to and…
HARARE – The leader of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) — the world’s largest trade union federation — has cancelled a fact-finding visit to Zimbabwe after he was denied a visa by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. ITUC secretary-general Diallo Mamadou had applied for a visa at the Zimbabwean embassy in Brussels, only to be…
