HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said there will be no room for corrupt politicians and dodgy businessmen in the privatisation of struggling State-owned companies, part of wide-ranging reforms set in motion by President Emmerson Mnangagwa since he came to power. A former banker, Ncube has been tasked with turning around State companies that…
HARARE – In yet another tragic and horror road accident, 42 people were burnt beyond recognition on Thursday evening, while 26 others were seriously injured when the bus they were travelling in caught fire and exploded near West Nicholson. It is suspected that the tragedy was caused by a leaking gas cylinder among the bus’s…
HARARE – Econet Brand Ambassador Kirsty Coventry, this week, joined Glen View and Budiriro communities in a clean-up campaign as the mobile operator continues with efforts to fight cholera. Armed with a shovel, clad in a white dust coat, sunny hat and a respirator, the Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister worked tirelessly to remove…
HARARE – An unmoved President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday insisted opposition leader Nelson Chamisa must appear before the commission of inquiry investigating the deadly August 1 shootings, which left at least six civilians dead in Harare. Mnangagwa’s warning came as Chamisa had suggested on Thursday that he would not appear before the inquiry — unless both…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday flew out to Addis Ababa to attend the 11th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union. The Assembly — the supreme organ of the Union that consists all the 55 heads of State and government of the AU — will consider and make decisions and declarations based…
HARARE – Veteran broadcaster and former ZBC Radio Services general manager John Masuku has been tapped as the spokesperson of the independent commission installed to establish what happened before an army crackdown on opposition supporters on August 1 in which at least six people were killed in post-election violence. Masuku, a versatile broadcast journalist and…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday ruled chief law officer Michael Reza should be barred from prosecuting MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti on charges of falsely and unlawfully announcing results of the July 30 election, which Nelson Chamisa rejected as fraudulent. Biti had challenged Reza’s appointment by the Prosecutor-General (PG) as the lead prosecutor…
HARARE – The trial of MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi has been rolled over to January 7 after the presiding magistrate went on sick leave. Komichi is facing charges of going to the podium at Harare International Airport during the announcement of presidential election results and grabbing the microphone before announcing that the MDC Alliance…
HARARE – PublicService, Labour and Social Welfare deputy minister Lovemore Matuke has called on Parliament to review disability benefit claims from $15 a month to a higher award to sustain the needs of the physically challenged. Matuke told the National Assembly earlier this week that people living with disabilities were not being offered enough to…
HARARE – Government will soon remove all prosecutors seconded to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) from State security agencies with no law degrees, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi has told the National Assembly. He made the disclosure after Zengeza West MDC MP Job Sikhala asked what was the government doing to deal with…
