FRESH from being acquitted on treason charges, firebrand MDC deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to prepare for major civil unrest, unless he halts Zimbabwe’s worsening national rot, the Daily News reports. This comes as the MDC is due to hold a briefing in Harare today — amid growing pressure from…
PARLIAMENT was told yesterday how the government’s subsidised grain was allegedly being smuggled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by millers connected to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), the Daily News reports. The revelations came as the country is experiencing widespread shortages of the staple maize meal — which has put pressure on authorities…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) will be evacuating patients from Wilkins Infectious Disease Control Hospital to make way for coronavirus (Covid-19) cases that may be recorded in the country, the city health director has said. This comes as the government on Monday and yesterday conducted a training workshop to equip health workers with skills on…
FIVE family members were struck to death by lightning in the Muzvezve area of Sanyati District on Monday while they were working in their maize field. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed the tragedy to the Daily News and underscored the importance of staying indoors whenever it is raining. “We confirm a sad incident where…
BUSINESSMAN Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, who is accused of fraudulently undervaluing a Bentley Continental GT that he imported from South Africa, has finally been freed on $10 000 bail. Kadungure, who was in remand prison for nearly two weeks, was yesterday freed by High Court judge Erica Ndewere. As part of his bail conditions, Kadungure was…
IN A bid to stabilise the ever rising prices of goods and black market foreign exchange rates that are torpedoing the economy, authorities yesterday assured people with hard currencies that they were free to use their money as they wished, and that foreign currency accounts would not be raided, the Daily News reports. This fresh…
THE government and families of people who were slain during the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s — mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands — are at loggerheads over the official reference to the killings, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has recently stepped up its efforts to try and bring closure to…
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the country’s biggest opposition party, political analysts have said. Sikhala was arrested in July last year after he told an MDC rally in Bikita that Mnangagwa would be overthrown before the 2023…
THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has urged government to provide decent and fair working conditions in the health sector to avoid unnecessary conflicts between healthcare workers. This comes as doctors and nurses last week clashed over working hours after the latter complained that doctors are not reporting for duty as much as expected,…
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi has been sucked into a poultry scam after it was revealed in court yesterday that he allegedly recommended engagement of convicted rapist Munyaradzi Kereke to facilitate donor coordination, banking and finance in the institution. This was revealed during the trial of Nobert Chomurenga, 58, a senior…
