A SEEMINGLY deranged 20-year-old Binga man went berserk at the weekend, axing five people to death — among them his own relatives, the Daily News reports. This occurred as the killing of people, mostly over relatively petty issues, has been on the increase around the country in recent months — forcing police yesterday to warn…
MISSING political activist Itai Dzamara’s wife, Sheffra, has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa asking him to resolve her husband’s five-year abduction case. The letter, written yesterday, came at a time when the European Union also pleaded with Mnangagwa to bring finality to the Dzamara issue. Dzamara was abducted by suspected State security agents on March…
THE government says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are not doing enough to bring to book high profile people accused of corruption. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana said the current efforts against the high levels of corruption in the country, while commendable…
A third case of coronavirus has been confirmed in South Africa by the minister of Health Zweli Mkhize. In a statement released yesterday, Mkhize confirmed that the wife of the country’s first coronavirus case has tested positive for Covid-19. “Fellow South Africans, an announcement was made yesterday confirming the second case of COVID-19 in South…
MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, who was recently cleared of treason charges, has said Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi does not have any prospect of succeeding in his intended Supreme Court appeal against the acquittal. This comes after Hodzi, through Justin Uladi, who is an acting national director of public prosecutors, sought leave to appeal against High…
GOKWE Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has come to the rescue of more than 1 000 stranded students in his constituency by splashing $1 million on their Ordinary (O) and Advanced (A) level examination fees. This comes as the feisty youthful MP has often been criticised for driving expensive cars such as his swanky…
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya will be the guest of honour at the presentation of the first quarter “State of the Economy Report” for this year at the Daily News Breakfast Forum set for Friday. The highly-anticipated presentation of the quarterly report, produced by the Africa Economic Development Strategies (AEDS) in conjunction with…
SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) Health ministers are today set to meet in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in an emergency meeting aimed at assessing the region’s state of preparedness for coronavirus (Covid-19), following three cases that have so far been confirmed in South Africa. The meeting comes as South Africa, a member of the regional…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF fear a popular uprising by ordinary Zimbabweans who are enduring the worst economic crisis in the country for a decade, expelled former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has told the Daily News On Sunday. This comes as the church, regional peers and Western powers are stepping up their…
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has announced that a second case of COVID-19 has now been confirmed in South Africa. On Thursday it was announced that a KwaZulu-Natal man who had travelled back from Italy on Sunday was the first confirmed case in South Africa. The second patient is a 39-year-old lady from Gauteng who…
