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HARARE – A Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) finance manager yesterday recounted in court how former chief executive officer Moses Juma made him sign a back-dated document that reportedly concealed a fraudulent transaction. Shadreck Matengabadza was testifying during the graft trial of Juma before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya. Juma is facing allegations of flouting…

HARARE – Deputy Finance minister and aspiring Zanu PF legislator for Harare East constituency Terence Mukupe has been banned from disrupting the opposition MDC Alliance’s political party campaigns. Mukupe, squaring off with  the MDC Alliance‘s candidate Tendai Biti and other smaller candidates, was barred from engaging in politically-motivated violence, intimidation and causing disruptions of rallies,…

HARARE – Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has been ordered to have his son Mangwiza undergo a paternity test after the politician disowned his offspring after he accused him of practicing witchcraft. Mangwiza has consented to the DNA tests only if they are conducted by at least two institutions and his “dad” pays for the…

HARARE – The High Court has thrown out a bid by Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to change the ballot papers that will be used in the presidential elections on Monday. High Court judge David Mangota on Thursday dismissed the application on the basis that it was…

HARARE – Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge, who was jailed for four years for irregularly issuing out a tender which prejudiced the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) of $12 000, will stay in jail pending a August 1 hearing on his High application for bail. Undenge, who is represented by Alec Muchadehama, is seeking to be…

HARARE – In the second major shake-up of the police force since the ouster from power of Robert Mugabe, authorities have promoted close to 500 senior cops, the Daily News can report. The latest shake-up comes a week after nearly 2 000 junior police officers were also promoted to higher ranks, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa was in no-show at an interface meeting with vendors in Harare yesterday. The event, which was organised by National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) chairperson Sten Zvorwadza, saw only a few informal traders pitching up, collecting Zanu PF T-shirts and leaving immediately after. Mnangagwa did not pitch up, and instead…

HARARE – The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has crafted a framework giving it a guideline on how to deal with the Gukurahundi issue, including issues of  exhumations and reburials to pave way for national healing. Gukurahundi refers to the dark phase after the country’s independence in the 1980s, when the army turned against…

HARARE – People’s Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate Joice Mujuru has ordered her council and parliamentary candidates to fund their own campaigns ahead of next weeks’ elections. In correspondence to the party’s aspiring candidates last week, Mujuru’s PRC said the alliance had failed to raise money for its election campaign. In a letter following a…

HARARE – Independent candidate for Magunje, Godfrey Gandawa, yesterday said he is now living in fear after his family, including his mother, were temporarily abducted by four gun-toting men at his rural home in Magunje. Gandawa, who was expelled from Zanu PF for dabbling in G40 factional politics,  told the Daily News the men stormed…