HARARE – Eight suspected money-changers yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts for illegally dealing in foreign currency. Nigel Mangozho, 32, and seven others were caught in the act by police and arrested. Allegations are that Mangozho on January 3, 2019 was at CopaCabana rank and in violation of the Exchange Control Act was unlawfully…
HARARE – A Harare man yesterday appeared before the courts facing fraud charges after he fleeced his employer of $54 000. The accused, Willmore Tirivacho Chigodora, 27, is being charged of fraud as defined in section 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23. Chigodora was employed by Gatehill Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd…
HARARE – In a surprising twist, the officer-in-charge at Milton Park Police Station has told Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition(CiZC)’s lawyers that plain-clothes police officers who visited CiZC offices on Thursday, were only making a “courtesy call”. The officer-in-charge had initially expressed ignorance over the matter following inquiries by lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human…
HARARE – The Commander of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), General Philip Valerio Sibanda has claimed that there were some detractors who wanted to manipulate the military for their personal gains and urged the military to remain resilient in maintaining peace and stability in the country. In a New year message statement, Sibanda told the military…
HARARE – Mbare residents affected by the 2016/2017 floods are yet to be compensated two years after winning the High Court lawsuit against Harare City Council. Residents who spoke to the Daily News said they have not received any of the $58 000 that they were awarded then by Justice David Mangota for their damaged…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe’s economy continues to deteriorate, the opposition MDC has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to admit failure and open way for negotiations towards the setting up of a national transitional authority to stabilise the country. Following a month-old strike by junior doctors that has since been joined by other civil servants, including nurses…
HARARE – Government is using unorthodox tactics including political intimidation to force striking doctors to abort their industrial action, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has claimed. Following recent claims by government that the industrial action which has gone for over a month now was politically motivated, ZHDA secretary-general Mthabisi Bhebhe told the Daily News…
HARARE – Beer drinkers may now need to think twice before downing the so-called wise waters. This follows the steep increase in the price of clear beer – by more than 100 percent – hours after Delta Corporation Limited was forced to reverse its decision to sell its products in hard currency. A survey by…
HARARE – Government is urging all Zimbabweans to partake in today’s National Clean Up Day. President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared first Fridays of every month as the National Clean Up Day after the successful launch of the National Clean-Up Campaign under the theme Zero Tolerance to Litter-My Environment, My Pride in December last year. Today’s event…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old. Nurses in the country’s public hospitals as well as their counterparts in the education sectors downed their tools yesterday to force…
