CITY of Harare acting town planner Funny Machipisa’s bid to mourn his mother hit a snag after Harare regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna denied him bail, saying there is risk of interference with investigations. Machipisa appeared in court on offences he allegedly committed in a week he acted as housing director in 2018 involving land…
SEVEN police officers were yesterday arrested for firing teargas canisters in an occupied bus at the Harare Showgrounds. In a video that has since gone viral on various social media platforms, several people are seen jumping off the bus through windows as tear smoke filled the bus. The government, through the Information ministry, confirmed the…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw TWO suspected robbers who were part of a gang that had been terrorising Harare residents were shot dead, while another is battling for his life in hospital after exchanging gunfire with the police, a court heard. One of the suspects who survived the shootout Garikai Shangwa, 38, and was arrested…
Tarisai Machakaire MDC Alliance proportional representative for Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, Dorcas Sibanda, has approached the High Court challenging her recall from Parliament. Sibanda was recalled from Parliament on October 1 after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC announced that she was no longer a party member and declared her seat vacant. In the application Kadzere, Hungwe and…
Tarisai Machakaire A HARARE man has approached the High Court challenging a warrant of search and seizure issued against his Mercedes Benz car believed to be at the centre of a fraud storm in which flamboyant businessman Joseph Tazvi Mhaka was allegedly duped of US$14 000. Basil Mapako cited Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga, Onward…
Maxwell Sibanda ASSISTANT EDITOR DEVOLUTION on its own is inadequate to deliver enhanced electoral participation, hence it should be implemented together with a host of other electoral reforms that include provincial councils which have not yet been constituted, analysts contend. These sentiments came out of a virtual discussion hosted by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network…
Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw ARMED robbers stormed the Harare residence of retired Lieutenant General Engelbert Rugeje yesterday — before one of them was shot dead by his security aides, the Daily News reports. Rugeje was among the military bosses who were credited with deposing the late former president Robert Mugabe from power in a stunning but…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ANALYSTS have called for the suspension of Health deputy minister John Mangwiro, over allegations that he arm-twisted the National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) to award a US$5,6 million Covid-19 supplies tender to an unregistered firm. In addition, they pointed to the fact that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had set a precedent…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans have accused the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government of leaving them out on planned new liberation fighters’ benefits. This comes after the government recently enacted a law, the Veterans’ Act, to cater for the welfare of liberation war fighters. However, this has not gone down well…
Dakarai Mashava STAFF WRITER mashavad@dailynews.co.zw MIMOSA Mining Company is determined to improve the human conditions and quality of life of people living in communities they operate in, the company’s managing director Fungai Makoni has said. Makoni’s remarks follow the recent commissioning, by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, of a 20-bed state-of-the-art private ward at Zvishavane District Hospital…
