HARARE – The Daily New on Sunday’s senior writer Mugove Tafirenyika (Q) sits down for a wide-ranging interview with Wellington Chikomba, the Glen Norah MDC MP and former Harare councillor, who has worked both as chairperson of Harare City Council’s Business Committee and Human Resources Committee. Find below excerpts of the interview. Q: You have…
HARARE – Residents have castigated the MDC Alliance for failing to educate the electorate on the method applied by the party in its process of selecting mayors. Mfundo Mlilo, the director of Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA), told the Daily News that although the MDC has a lawful mandate to select its choice of mayors,…
HARARE – Despite explosive broadsides being fired at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya, the 55-year-old neoclassical economist-turned banker will stay on in his job until February 2023. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Sunday, presidential spokesperson George Charamba said the appointing authority — President Emmerson Mnangagwa — extended…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government should boost health spending in the face of increasing public concern about the appalling state of healthcare. Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights spokesperson Fortune Nyamande told the Daily News on Sunday, government should increase the national health budget allocation to meet the Abuja Declaration of 15 percent….
HARARE – An insurance firm has partnered with Harare City Council(HCC) to refurbish a busy toilet in Harare’s Central Business District. A subsidiary of Zimnat Insurance, Genetic Financial Services (Pvt) Ltd, is rehabilitating the busy toilet at the corner of Leopold Takawira and Bank Street. Commonly called the “Bata toilet” due to its close proximity…
HARARE – The police have apologised to seasoned lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu, after conceding to wrongfully arresting and detaining him on charges of trying to obstruct the course of justice. He was arrested in 2009 over his representation of Michael Peter Hitschmann, who was a witness in the late Roy Bennett’s trial at the High Court….
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has commenced touring manufacturing firms, starting with a visit to Surface Wilmer, the largest cooking oil manufacturer in Zimbabwe. Surface Wilmar (Pvt) Ltd, situated in Chitungwiza and its consumer products include Puredrop cooking oil, Excella rice and Golden Glow. [GoogleAd] Surface Wilmar’s business activities include oil seed crushing, edible…
HARARE – Zimbabwean courts are getting inundated with lawsuits of estranged wives suing what they have termed “scheming seductresses” for stealing their men. More and more wives are demanding hefty financial damages from “small houses” for alienation of affection. In most of the cases, the wives are accusing the “home wreckers” of getting into affairs…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is finalising drafting legislation that will restore stability and eliminate mischief in the money markets, his spokesperson George Charamba told the Daily News on Sunday this week. Charamba also revealed that Mnangagwa will use emergency powers to deal with unexplained wealth and bank deposits in wide-sweeping measures that will see…
HARARE – In a shocking claim which could put under pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under further political scrutiny, rabble-rousing influence peddler — William Gerald Mutumanje — is spilling the beans on his recent hatchet job on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). The maverick former Zanu PF youth league official has made sensational claims…
