HARARE – Zimbabwe’s judiciary system suffered yet another embarrassment yesterday after inmates at Harare’s remand prison could not attend court for the second day. The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS)’s failure to bring prisoners to court due to the deplorable state of its vehicles resulted in dozens of cases not being heard, with magistrates…
HARARE – A Glen Norah supermarket owner and his employees are facing murder charges after taking turns to fatally assault a man who had stolen a portion of meat. The culprits appeared in court yesterday, where they were denied bail, after the State argued that they were facing a serious crime that calls for capital…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rebuke of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over its involvement in the running of Zanu PF primary elections has received mixed reactions, with some analysts saying he was right to censure the force while others seriously doubted his sincerity. This comes after allegations that Zanu PF used ZRP, Central Intelligence…
HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, has spoken at the Oxford Union about his contentious rise to the MDC presidency. The 40-year-old opposition leader spoke to students about the recent MDC split over leadership struggles that have seen one of the vice presidents Thokozani Khupe walk out to form her own movement. Chamisa…
HARARE – The mainstream MDC has called to order senior party members who are eyeing constituencies that have been reserved for members of its youth assembly. The party has reserved at least 20 percent of the contested seats, at both local authority and parliamentary levels, for young people. But with elections fast approaching around July/August…
HARARE – The High Court has ordered Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye to pay over $400 000, including interest, borrowed from a local bank over five years ago. The court heard on May 24, 2011, CBZ Bank Limited and Kagonye entered into an agreement in which the bank agreed to provide the politician…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is fighting to protect its property attached to settle a $450 000 debt owed to a company contracted to partake in a $4 million borehole drilling project. This follows the High Court’s decision to grant Water Logistics Investments (Private) Limited a writ of execution in March this year…
HARARE – Teachers have strongly disagreed over what course of action to take after government’s offer of a 10 percent salary increment was not universally accepted by the unions — prompting sharp divisions which saw most of the schools reporting full staff complement at the commencement of the new term yesterday. The country’s largest teachers’…
HARARE – As was first exclusively reported by the Daily News early last month, it has now been confirmed that the apparent plan by former leader Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace to sink President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election bid in this year’s keenly-anticipated national polls is effectively dead in the water. [Adz]
HARARE – As was first exclusively reported by the Daily News early last month, it has now been confirmed that the apparent plan by former leader Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace to sink President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election bid in this year’s keenly-anticipated national polls is effectively dead in the water. This comes as the…
