HARARE – The High Court has ordered the State to pay $150 000 to human rights activist Jestina Mukoko as compensation for her abduction and torture which she suffered at the hands of State Security agents in 2008. In a press statement, Zimbabwe Peace Project and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said the compensation must…
HARARE – Government is planning to hike traffic fines in a controversial move it claims will reduce road accidents, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has revealed. Ziyambi made the announcement after Chief Fortune Charumbira asked what government was doing to curb Zimbabwe’s worsening road carnage and reckless driving. Charumbira also wanted to…
HARARE – High Court judge Tawanda Chitapi has dismissed an application by Air Namibia Proprietory Limited to stop the attachment of its plane and office equipment after a damages claim by a local family which was denied travel to Turkey by the airline’s officials. Chitapi’s order, dated September 24, 2018, was granted after Chenjerai Mawumba,…
HARARE – A Zimbabwean woman has approached the High Court seeking to stop the work of a commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate the August 1, 2018 killings, pending the outcome of another case in which she is demanding to have the appointment of some members nullified. It’s the latest…
HARARE – A former Midlands State University student accused of retweeting a message denigrating the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba and charged with criminal insult plans to change his plea. Night Tawona Shadaya, 25, initially pleaded guilty after he was charged with criminal insult charge for retweeting a message besmirching Chigumba in the…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has warned Zimbabweans to brace for more pain as he tries to pull the country’s tottering economy out of its current state. The well-regarded former banker has also said there is no going back on the controversial two cents per dollar transactional tax which has left a wide cross-…
HARARE – The bond note yesterday crashed to 1:250 against the United States Dollar — sparking panic among ordinary Zimbabweans who have been raging all week over government’s controversial two cents per dollar tax on electronic transactions — which triggered price increases and shortages of goods across the country. The surrogate currency, introduced at the…
HARARE – Vice President Kembo Mohadi’s divorce case has taken a dramatic turn after his estranged wife — recently given a restraining order against her husband — filed a High Court application challenging the protection order. This comes after the former State Security minister was granted a protection order against his wife after he petitioned…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, whose controversial two cents per dollar tax has caused palpable anger among long suffering Zimbabweans and business — jumped the gun in announcing the new measures which had not yet been approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Daily News can reveal. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Long-suffering Zimbabweans have expressed disappointment in the government’s latest economic stabilisation measures that were announced on Monday, adding that they feared that things could take a turn for the worse in the country. In a bid to mitigate rising prices and the acute shortages of foreign currency in the country, authorities announced a…
