ZANU PF youth and the party’s Masvingo structures are apparently not going back on their push to have President Emmerson Mnangagwa remain in office beyond 2028. Speaking during an inter-district meeting in the province at the weekend, Zanu PF youth league deputy secretary and member of the party’s politburo, John Paradza, said Mnangagwa should consider…
By Rutendo Ngara JAILED former Bikita West MP, Munyaradzi Kereke, who is serving a prison term for raping his niece at gunpoint, has applied for the State to remove him on remand on a separate charge of allegedly defrauding US$400 000. In his submissions before Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa yesterday, Kereke accused the State of…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) lead investigator Henry Chapwanya yesterday described Harare businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu as “economic saboteurs”, arguing that the accused should remain in remand prison until their trial is finalised. The two were arrested last week on charges of defrauding the State of over US$7 million in…
By Brandon Josphat josphatb@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night dismissed Simelisizwe Sibanda as the deputy minister of Higher and Tertiary Education with immediate effect. The chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Office, Martin Rushwaya, confirmed the dismissal of Sibanda, but did not state the reasons. “His Excellency the President…Emmerson Mnangagwa has, in terms of…
Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabweans and Sadc region citizens to be on guard against western imperialism as it wanted to reverse the gains of the liberation struggles. He was speaking yesterday at the burial of the late national hero Romeo Mutsvunguma at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. He…
THERE continues to be no end in sight to the Citizens Coalition for Change’s (CCC) bloodletting, with Sengezo Tshabangu once again showing the party’s leaders the middle finger. In a further escalation of the tiff between the parties, the daring Tshabangu told the Daily News at the weekend that he was “the only one” who…
ZIMBABWE recorded a US$151 million trade deficit in May, representing a 23.8 percent improvement on the April figure which stood at US$198.2…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have implored all Zimbabweans to desist from spreading the falsehoods that some people have died from the current heavy influenza strain being experienced in the country. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the public health advisor to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Agnes Mahomva, said the concerns that the flu…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE government has called for public-private partnerships to address the scourge of human trafficking. Speaking on Friday during a signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Home Affairs and Vukarhani Trust, permanent secretary Raphael Faranisi said the MOU would help in rescuing, restoring, protecting and advancing the…
RESIDENTS of Harare have demanded that the Harare City Council should provide more information regarding the taking over of the collection of solid waste by the government saying it compromises the local authority. This comes after the government announced last week that it had taken over the collection of solid waste in Harare following a…
