HARARE – President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in on Sunday in line with the country’s laws, which require a presidential poll winner to take oath of office within 48 hours after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has announced its decision on an election challenge. Chamisa had challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s declaration that Mnangagwa won…
HARARE – The Elders have urged Zimbabweans to uphold the democratic rights to justice and peaceful protest, and refrain from words or actions that could incite violence, drawing on the counsel of their late chair, Kofi Annan. In a statement issued ahead of yesterday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court, the grouping called on political leaders…
HARARE – Outgoing European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Philipe Van Damme has said the country needs to break away from the past and focus on the future in order to develop. Van Damme said this at the New Ambassador Hotel on Wednesday, where he was holding his “final” discussion, ending his four-year stay in…
HARARE – Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accepted the outcome of the Constitutional Court’s ruling in favour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa regarding last month’s hotly-contested polls. On his part — and as he embarks on the arduous task of uniting and rebuilding Zimbabwe — Mnangagwa himself extended an olive branch to Chamisa to join him…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, will finally be sworn in tomorrow after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) unanimously upheld his July 30 election victory yesterday and threw out opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s petition that had sought to overturn the result. The landmark ruling by Zimbabwe’s highest court brought to an end weeks of uncertainty and anxiety…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, will finally be sworn in tomorrow after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) unanimously upheld his July 30 election victory yesterday and threw out opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s petition that had sought to overturn the result. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Greatermans Stores is set to have its property auctioned over a debt it owes Corousel (Private) Limited. The auction, to be conducted at Ruby Auctions next Thursday, will see items such as office desks, fridges, water coolers and sofas going under the hammer. Greatermans was shut down in 2014. Its premises were taken…
HARARE – Consumers of electricity have been failing to access tokens from third-party vendors for nearly three days due to technical glitches at the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) — a subsidiary of power utility Zesa Holdings. A spokesperson for the power utility, Fullard Gwasira, told the Daily News yesterday that ZETDC was…
NAIROBI – The late United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan will be laid to rest in his native home, the family has stated. The family of the former diplomat said he will be buried in Ghana, putting rest to the argument where the Nobel Peace Prize winner should be buried. A statement issued by the family…
HARARE – Unilever, through its popular public health brands Lifebuoy and Domestos, launched an awareness campaign in Gweru to educate people on health and sanitation. The awareness campaign, which began on Monday and is set to be concluded tomorrow, is a response to a typhoid outbreak which has hit Gweru for the past three weeks…
