BEER guzzlers, who do not usually feel the pinch of escalating prices of basics, must now dig deeper in their pockets for a pint of ale after Delta increased prices by over 50 percent on Valentine’s Day. Although Delta, which is citing runaway operational costs as well as shortages of foreign currency for inputs, was…
Zimbabwe’s most celebrated veteran author Charles Mungoshi, pictured, has died. Mungoshi, 71, passed on in the early hours of yesterday at Parirenyatwa Hospital after succumbing to a neurological condition for years. Mungoshi was married to actress Jesesi who played the title role in the 1993 Zimbabwean film Neria. A literature guru in Zimbabwe, he…
HARARE- The government has charged Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) ministries for breaching Value Added Tax (VAT) regulations on nearly $29 million which the State says was generated from the sale of church wares over four years. PHD is led by popular cleric Walter Magaya, pictured, who was absent from the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday where the…
MASVINGO- President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, is set to hold a “thank you rally” today in Masvingo Province, one of Zanu PF’s strongholds, barely a month after he snubbed another gathering in Mashonaland Central’s Mt Darwin, under unclear circumstances. Explaining his absence at the rally, Mnangagwa said he was meeting envoys from other countries to brief them on…
MUTARE- A member of a notorious gang of machete robbers which terrorised Mutare’s leafy eastern suburbs between October and December 2018 making off with property worth over $24 000 has been jailed 56 years. Kudakwashe Agustinyu Chirara, 31, of Chirara village in Magunje confessed to seven robberies, one break-in and illegally skipping the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border…
HARARE – Newly- appointed Prosecutor General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi, pictured, has an unenviable task before him. He has landed the top post when the rot in the country has reached alarming proportions with Zimbabwe being ranked the 160th most corrupt nation out of 175 countries surveyed by Transparency International in 2018. [GoogleAd] As the new broom at…
Victoria Falls- President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday cancelled his planned trip to attend the CEO Africa Roundtable in Victoria Falls, amid a worsening economic crisis stirring resentment to his rule. He cited a meeting with diplomats held in Harare on Thursday as the reason and also attributed the cancellation to the ongoing formation of a Presidential Advisory…
HARARE- In a surprise move which betrays anxiety about President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s safety, authorities have once again reshuffled his personal security team while also expanding it to include Air Force personnel, the Daily News on Sunday can report. This comes as investigations into last year’s Bulawayo bombing — in which Mnangagwa narrowly escaped an apparent…
HARARE- Zimbabwe should brace for more problems after the European Union (EU) Parliament proposed a fresh round of punitive sanctions this week against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, following a recent vicious crackdown against civilians by security forces. [GoogleAd] This comes as the United Kingdom (UK) — which had until recently worked tirelessly to help Zimbabwe…
VICTORIA FALLS – Zimbabwe must seriously look into the possibility of joining the Rand Monetary Union as the central bank mulls introducing a fresh monetary policy tool to alleviate foreign currency shortages, the head of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee Tendai Biti has said. Amid sharp differences between RBZ governor John Mangudya and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube…
