HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa opted to hire a luxurious private plane to travel to China, abandoning the struggling national airliner Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), which has a plane of the same size albeit with no similar luxurious trappings. In a cocktail of austerity measures meant to preserve thinning foreign currency — Mnangagwa’s administration announced early…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in China for a seven-day State visit, his 13th foreign trip this year, his frequent travel abroad is stirring an outbreak of mass ridicule with some failing to differentiate him from his predecessor, the Daily News can report. Sworn-in as president on November 24 after 94-year-old Robert Mugabe…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi was sent on forced leave in May 2016 to pave way for investigations into allegations of corruption and poor corporate governance unearthed by a forensic audit instituted by the Auditor-General’s office. Pasi, who resigned in May 2017, sits down with Daily News reporter Farayi Machamire…
HARARE – Chances of opposition political parties forming a grand coalition to battle with Zanu PF at the forthcoming polls are narrowing to zero with more and more disjointed alliances emerging each day, the Daily News can report. While opposition leaders concur that the only way to end Zanu PF’s rule is through a combined…
HARARE – Lester Simango arrived at the country’s largest referral hospital, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (PGH), visibly in pain and with his clothes hanging over his frail frame, battered by disease. He was among scores of patients who trooped to an oversubscribed PGH and waited in vain for long hours for assistance from doctors that…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has started shutting off water service to “nonpaying” residents by removing water meters. Residents in high density suburbs such as Highfield, Glen Norah, Glen View and Budiriro want council restrained from the shutoffs, which they contend are denying them their constitutional rights to water. This is part of an…
HARARE – A forensic audit of Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) is underway, Higher Education, Science and Technology Development minister Amon Murwira has told Parliament. At least six top managers have been sent on forced leave to allow the probe being conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which charged government $180 000 for the audit job. Zimdef earns…
HARARE – Mashonaland West Zanu PF secretary for finance Dexter Nduna has warned against “unnecessary” divisions, squabbles, and infiltration in primary elections that could have sweeping implications and hurt the political soul of the party as it barrels toward crucial mid-year elections. While there is widespread optimism about the record number of candidates running in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Easter road death toll has risen to 32, from the 21 fatalities recorded the previous day, police said yesterday. Today is a critical day as many families return home from the long weekend. “Further to 10 deaths recorded as of yesterday (Saturday), 11 people died in eight separate fatal road traffic accidents…
BULAWAYO – Former first lady Grace Mugabe is defying a court order to vacate Smithfield Farm, which she claims has been invaded by artisanal miners who are suspected to be Zanu PF youths, Home Affairs and Culture minister Obert Mpofu said yesterday. Mpofu told a news conference here that police have also established that there…
