Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw A JUNIOR police officer alleged to be part of suspected notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul’s terror gang, Tapiwa Mangoma, has applied for bail at the High Court for a third time. Mangoma, who was arrested in August last year following a shootout between a police crack team and the alleged…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council (HCC) acting town clerk Zvenyika Chawatama and chief security officer Collen Tongoona are in the eye of a storm following a controversial memo penned by the latter to bar 24 officials from entering council premises. This comes as a number of high-ranking HCC officials are…
Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw WITH the country continuing to register alarming numbers of people getting infected and succumbing to the lethal coronavirus, health experts have delivered bad news: things will get worse before they get better. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the health experts also reiterated that the continuing lack of discipline among Zimbabweans…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have announced a new set of fines — as they battle to curb soaring coronavirus deaths and infections in the country — including hefty penalties for not wearing masks in public and breaching the current dusk-to-dawn curfew. Under the new fines, those who are caught not wearing a…
Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has set up a crack unit to investigate laboratories issuing fake Covid-19 PCR test certificates. This comes as there has been a huge proliferation of laboratories caught on the wrong side of the law after their staffers have been implicated in fake Covid-19 certificates scandals….
Tariro Sajeni RESPECTED medical doctor and University of Zimbabwe (UZ) researcher James Gita Hakim, pictured, passed away yesterday after succumbing to Covid-19 in Harare. Hakim passed away at St Anne’s Hospital in the capital after having been admitted there for the past two weeks. The erudite professor was the director of the UZ Clinical Research…
A COVID-19 patient has taken the government to court contesting recent burial restrictions as he claims they would violate his cultural beliefs in the event that he dies and is not buried at his rural home. This comes after the ministry of Health on January 11 imposed restrictions on the movement of Covid-19 victims and…
JAILED rapist Robert Martin Gumbura suffered his first New Year setback after the High Court struck his bail appeal off the roll on a technicality. Gumbura was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in 2017 and the term was halved last year after he had noted an appeal against the sentence and conviction. However, Gumbura was…
A SON of the alleged mastermind of the US$2,7million heist has been nabbed on allegations of concealing US$100 000 in a pit at their rural home in Mhondoro. Job Njowa, 23, was not asked to plead to allegations of obstruction the course of justice and was remanded in custody to today for bail ruling….
THE government is ramping up preparations to roll out Covid-19 vaccines, with Cabinet ministers and legislators joining frontline health workers at the front of the queue to get the first doses. This comes as the country has seen a spike in new Covid-19 infections and deaths as the country is battling to keep the second…
