HARARE – Government has threatened to repossess land from resettled farmers who continue to use vast quantities of wood to cure their tobacco, contributing to deforestation and defying calls to use coal. “The country will turn into a desert in no time, should this practice be allowed to continue,” Lands minister Perrance Shiri said, calling…
HARARE – Outspoken Chimurenga singer Thomas Mapfumo on Tuesday said a top Zimbabwe Republic Police cop corruptly sold his cars confiscated by the police nearly two decades ago. Mapfumo was accused way back in 2001 of buying five stolen luxurious cars from then fugitive car dealer, George Sibanda. And 17 years down the line, he…
HARARE – Tuesday’s shock ruling by the Bulawayo High Court left the MDC party crying foul as it played straight into Zanu PF’s hands, which analysts said was the biggest beneficiary of the confusion in the MDC party. Respected University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, told the Daily News yesterday that Nelson Chamisa’s…
HARARE – Chimurenga music maestro Thomas Mapfumo on Tuesday took a dig at the change of guard at Munhumutapa Building, saying the ouster of former president Robert Mugabe and his replacement with President Emmerson Mnangagwa only ushered in “cosmetic changes”. Popularly known as Mukanya, his totem, the Chimurenga music icon is in the country after…
HARARE – The High Court will tomorrow hold a hearing on an application filed by disgruntled nurses who are challenging government’s decision to terminate their contracts following last week’s industrial action. Justice Amy Tsanga will hear the application. In their urgent application that was filed in the High Court, the nurses’ representative body, the Zimbabwe…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party’s provincial structures are up in flames, rebelling against the decision by the politburo to give lifelines to individuals they had barred from contesting in the weekend primary elections, the Daily News can report. On Sunday, the party’s supreme decision-making body in-between congresses — the politburo — released the…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party’s provincial structures are up in flames, rebelling against the decision by the politburo to give lifelines to individuals they had barred from contesting in the weekend primary elections, the Daily News can report. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – Youths, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kazembe Kazembe has taken control of a 1 350-hectare farm belonging to Blackfordby College of Agriculture, situated approximately 60 kilometres north west of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, the Daily News has learnt. The chartered engineer’s alleged “farm grab” comes amid President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vow to stop illegal land…
HARARE – The High Court has acquitted five Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) executives who had been accused of fraudulently transferring more than $2 million into bogus companies’ accounts in a suspected shady loan deal. High Court judge Emy Tsanga yesterday ruled that the five, Simon Mudzingwa Taranhike, Shadreck Matengabadza, Stephen Matute, Givemore Tendai Kufa…
HARARE – Angry members of Parliament plan to summon President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured right) to explain his government’s contentious decision to retain controversial “tenderpreneur” Wicknell Chivayo on the $200 million Gwanda solar project — all this despite damning allegations of corruption and fierce objections from many quarters. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
