GULLIBLE investors lost US$2 million to a suspected pyramid scheme in Harare. This was revealed at the Harare Magistrates’ Court at the weekend where Richard Samunda of Berven Capital in Milton Park was accused of violating provisions of the Banking Act. He was not asked to plead to the charges. It is alleged that sometime…
AS pressure mounts for the regional grouping Sadc to end Zimbabwe’s long running crises, University of Zimbabwe’s politics expert, Eldred Masunungure, says South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his envoys are likely to come out stuck unless they involve other liberation movements. He speaks to Daily News on Sunday’s Consulting Editor, Constantine Chimakure, on this…
ZIMBABWE’S political and economic crises that have gone on for two decades are weakening Zanu PF’s hold on power and could soon have dire consequences on the ruling party, one of the country’s leading analysts has warned. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Eldred Masunungure — a political science lecturer at the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, has pledged to immediately roll out a process of issuing identity documents to victims of the Gukurahundi post-independence political disturbances. The president’s promise follows a convention held in March last year where civil society organisations under the Matabeleland Collective banner brought to his attention that people have been having challenges in…
THERE is a general perception that there is no film industry to talk about in Zimbabwe. This argument is mostly based on comparisons with other well-resourced film economies, such as Hollywood, or even South Africa’s. Based on my study of the Zimbabwean film industry I disagree with this view. Zimbabwe does have a film industry,…
HARARE City Council (HCC) has embarked on community outreach programmes as part of efforts to enable citizens with chronic illnesses access to medical supplies and healthcare. This comes as the HCC has scaled down functioning polyclinics from 42 to six as council nurses have withdrawn their services. It also comes as the country’s public health…
MDC ALLIANCE vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who was arrested on Friday and accused of inciting people for the July 31 demonstration, will spend this weekend behind bars and will be back in court tomorrow. Sikhala was not asked to plead to the allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube yesterday. Through his lawyer,…
BUSINESSMAN and football administrator Farai Jere appeared in court yesterday accused of swindling the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) of over US$3 million in a smart meters supply deal. Jere appeared before Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube jointly charged with ZETDC engineer Leonard Chisina and information and technology senior manager Freeman Chikonzo. Through…
THERE was drama in the Harare western suburb of Tynwald North as armed police arrested firebrand MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala in Hollywood movie-style. Sikhala had been on the run for weeks after he was put on the police wanted list among several other opposition political activists and civic society leaders for…
LOCAL Government minister, July Moyo, has directed officials from his ministry to attend all urban local authorities’ committee and full council meetings supposedly to ensure compliance with the Constitution and government policy. This comes amid allegations of corruption involving, among other things, illegal sale of stands by urban councils run by the opposition MDC that…
