BULAWAYO – Five armed robbers pounced on a South Africa-bound Brooklyn Bus from Bulawayo to Mussina on Monday evening and got away with valuables worth thousands of dollars. Thirty-six passengers were said to be on-board and they lost valuables that includes cash, cell-phones and passports. [GoogleAd] According to sources, the incident occurred on Monday around 11pm…
HARARE – The silence by the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) on the on-going human rights abuses in Zimbabwe has drawn widespread condemnation from critics and neutrals alike. While many were expecting the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe to feature prominently at the 32nd ordinary session of the AU held in Addis…
HARARE – A Parliamentary portfolio committee meeting on Mines failed to take off on Monday after Norton legislator Temba Mliswa accused the interim chairperson Roy Bhila of being HIV positive. The rant by Mliswa came after Bhila asked him, Prince Dubeko Sibanda, Anele Ndebele and Leonard Chikomba to recuse themselves from the proceedings until they…
BULAWAYO – The breakaway MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe (pictured) is struggling to shake off the now widespread tag that the opposition party is doing the bidding for Zanu PF. Khupe was one of the few opposition leaders who congratulated President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he was controversially elected to the presidency last year. [GoogleAd] Along…
BULAWAYO – Residents in the western areas of the second city woke up yesterday to see a huge presence of riot police who were anticipating another round of protests. Apparently, the police were reacting to fake news posted on WhatsApp. [GoogleAd] While the police and army have for the past three weeks been a common sight…
MAZOWE – The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have been dragged to the High Court for grabbing a farm belonging to a Mazowe white farmer. In the application, Andreas, Peter and Shaun Livaditakis are the applicants, while ZRP, ZNA, the provincial lands officer and Lands minister Perrance Shiri are cited as…
HARARE – Delays in the processing of passports have hit Zimbabwe, with Registrar General Clemence Masango blaming a worsening foreign currency crisis which has sparked the downsizing of operations fearing a stock-out of passport paper in two months. Zimbabwe’s economy has been struggling since it ditched its inflation-wracked Zim dollar in 2009 and adopted the…
HARARE – A fresh wave of votes of no confidence against senior officials in Zanu PF has consumed the ruling party. The Daily News can report that a number of Zanu PF officials now face an uncertain future over unproven charges that border on corruption and disloyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa. [GoogleAd] This is reminiscent of…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismissed claims that the army raped women and killed people during recent protests over massive increases in the price of fuel. In an interview with France24 in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Mnangagwa said the women who appeared in interviews saying…
HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is in the Indian capital of New Delhi, where he is receiving treatment for an abdominal ailment, a government official revealed yesterday. Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi posted on his Twitter account yesterday that the 61-year-old politician had successfully undergone surgery and was on the mend at an Indian hospital….
