THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T has appealed to the Supreme Court challenging a High Court order that barred them from replacing two MDC Alliance legislators after they were recalled on April 3, this year. This comes after Justice Joseph Mafusire on Monday granted temporary order to the MDC-T not to fill their vacancies in Parliament until…
SOCIALITE and businessman Genius ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure’s company Piko Trading was today convicted of evading tax, prejudicing the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority of $2 million. The company pleaded to tax evasion. It also admitted to failure to remit $350 000 in employees pay as you earn. Ginimbi appeared in court on behalf of the company and admitted to…
AS POLITICAL tensions continue to rise in the country, amid growing restlessness among long-suffering Zimbabweans, authorities yesterday warned the opposition that they would crush all unsanctioned mass protests, the Daily News reports. This comes after two senior MDC Alliance officials — Tendai Biti and Job “Wiwa” Sikhala — warned at the weekend about impending civil…
AS THE MDC’s factional wars continue to escalate, a party youth leader yesterday accused his rivals of allegedly being behind a petrol bomb attack at his residence on Sunday, the Daily News reports. This comes as re-instated MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said that he was “violently confronted” by some angry youths belonging to an…
THE High Court has barred the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T and National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda from replacing two MDC Alliance legislators as lawmakers after they were recalled on April 3, this year. This comes as reinstated MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said the Khupe-led camp had a right to recall the legislators — Lillian Timveos and…
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has bemoaned women in marginalised communities’ lack of access to prenatal care due to the coronavirus (Covid-19)-induced national lockdown, revealing that Zimbabwe has recorded 106 maternal deaths since the beginning of the national lockdown. Zimbabwe began it’s lockdown on March 30, 2020 and has…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ©️ AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to escalate, combative MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, pictured, has renewed his threat to lead rolling mass demonstrations against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government. Speaking to the Daily News in an interview at the weekend — as the…
©️ UNDER pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has once again admitted that the government is struggling to fix Zimbabwe’s deepening economic crisis, the Daily News reports. This comes as the hapless Zim dollar, which Ncube ill-advisedly re-introduced last year, continues to plunge on the parallel market — causing the prices of basic consumer goods in…
Tendai Kamhungira and Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITERS ©️ A SHOWDOWN is looming between the government and its workers over salaries, amid a fast-deteriorating economic crisis threatening to bring the country to a standstill. This comes as the government and the workers failed to reach an agreement last week during a meeting of the Tripartite Negotiating…
Bernard Chiketo in MUTARE ©️ THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) wants to evict 100 villagers in Wengezi, Manicaland, saying they were illegally resettled 36 years ago in a military cantonment. In a letter to the villagers in possession of the Daily News, 3 Brigade commander, Brigadier General George Chitsva, gave the Rufuka Village 14B residents…
