HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) acting chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana will testify against MDC official Morgen Komichi, as the State’s star witness in the case in which he is accused of disputing announcement of the July 30 election results. Silaigwana was due to testify yesterday but the trial was postponed to October 18…
HARARE – A Harare man has been hauled before the court for allegedly murdering a thief who had been caught after committing a burglary. Ernest Emmanuel Kapondoro, 21, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa yesterday. He was remanded in custody and advised to apply for bail at the High Court. Prosecutor Sabastian Mutizirwa alleged that…
HARARE – MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa drew fierce reaction from an angry Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda after the youthful politician accused him of enjoying State feather-beddings and joining a rich elite while his constituency of ex-liberation fighters continued to wallow in abject poverty. Chamisa used a ceremony to welcome war…
HARARE – Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has blasted insensitive legislators saying they have to wait a bit longer to get their cars. This comes after legislators from both Zanu PF and the MDC expressed anger at government’s decision to suspend the purchase of new vehicles for them — with the money…
HARARE – Government yesterday fired warning shots against social media abuse when a Harare magistrate convicted a local man on criminal insult charge for retweeting a message besmirching the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba in the aftermath of the hotly-contested July 30 elections. Night Tawona Shadaya, 25, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa…
BULAWAYO – The Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) has embarked on an urgent move to ensure the price of bread comes down to $1 after they applied for a $50 per tonne wheat import subsidy. The price of bread recently went up to $1,10 as the supply of wheat went down, coupled with high operational costs…
HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, is apparently admitted at a private hospital in Harare — where he is being treated for a yet-to-be-disclosed ailment — the Daily News was told last night. This comes as sources also said yesterday that affable Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister, Sibusiso Busi (SB) Moyo, was still battling…
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…
HARARE – Pro-democracy activists Patson Dzamara and Makomborero Haruzivishe had their main conviction for “trumped-up” robbery charges quashed yesterday after challenging their sentence. Dzamara and his alleged accomplice Haruzivishe were sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande in 2017 before three months were suspended on condition of good behaviour. The remaining nine…
HARARE – Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has raised its reservations on the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s Anti-Corruption Unit saying there was need for a multi-sectoral approach to corruption as compared to a single unit approach. In May, Police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga launched the new special unit which he said was meant to investigate and detect…
