Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF has begun issuing electronic cards to its members as the party gears up for the 2023 national elections. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa lit the torch paper to the Zanu PF campaign during an address at a politburo meeting last month where he urged the party…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw THREE real estate firms have approached the High Court seeking an order that would suspend the sale of stands they claim were stolen by High Range Resources and Glorious Real Estates. In an application filed last week at the High Court, Andrean Investments, One Mzuri Estates and Ruwa Estates cited…
LAST week, two senior MDC officials, former Midlands senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, jumped ship and joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party. The development was met with fierce criticism from opposition supporters amid allegations of the two being sell-outs. The Daily News on Sunday Chief Writer Mugove Tafirenyika…
SONIA Ngwenya, 39, wakes up early in the morning to her usual 5.30am alarm that alerts her of her dawn duty of queuing at the community borehole to fetch water for the day. The mother of four, who rents a room in Makokoba suburb together with three other families, wakes her children and they head…
ONE OF the prominent founding members of the MDC and former legislator, Blessing Chebundo, says the country’s opposition is going downhill due to tribalism, senseless infighting and a hatred for new ideas. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Chebundo — who surprisingly defected to the ruling Zanu PF together with Lillian Timveous last…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has called upon residents to be whistleblowers by alerting authorities on the presence of sand poachers within their vicinities. This comes as sand poachers have been leaving huge craters and open shafts that have claimed the lives of many Bulawayo citizens. This month alone, at least three people have…
THE High Court on Wednesday struck off from the urgent roll an application by Probadek Investments seeking an order to sue Redwing Mining for allegedly breaching a mining contract. Justice Tawanda Chitapi said the case against Redwing was not urgent and should be on the common court roll. Probadek Investments approached the court alleging…
THE government last week hiked licensing fees for all lotteries, casinos and betting shops which are now pegged at $250 000. In an extraordinary government gazette, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe fixed the new rates that have come into effect immediately. “It is hereby notified that the minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw THE government says it will release a total of $100 million to the ruling Zanu PF and the MDC this year, under the Political Parties (Finance) Act. In an extraordinary government gazette that was published yesterday, Zanu PF was earmarked to pocket $70 million of this money, with the…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance secretary-general, Chalton Hwende, pictured, who has been accused of bullying and at the centre of the ructions bedevilling the Nelson Chamisa-led formation, has offered to go before the party’s disciplinary organs to clear his name. Allegations against Hwende were raised by former Zvishavane senator and national standing committee…
