EXPELLED former MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri has hit back at party leader, Douglas Mwonzora, accusing him of being power hungry while insisting his Monday ouster is unconstitutional. Mudzuri and six other senior party members were expelled from the party after challenging their suspension last month at the High Court. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mudzuri…
TENANTS renting commercial properties can no longer refuse to vacate premises after their leases expire following a landmark High Court ruling on Monday, declaring as unlawful some sections of the Commercial Premises (Rent) Regulations of 1983. In the past, the regulations declared that lessees with expired contracts became “statutory tenants” — persons who are legally…
TANGLED, one of fast-growing national television station 3Ktv’s most popular programmes, has been nominated for an Outstanding Screen Production award by the…
By Brandon Josphat THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has granted Zesa the nod to increase power generation by an additional 100 megawatts (MW) at Lake Kariba, bringing the total power supplies from the Kariba hydropower plant to 350MW from the previous 250MW. This is expected to slightly improve the country’s power supplies as the ZPC…
GOING ahead with this year’s national elections without the country having implemented all requisite electoral reforms will plunge Zimbabwe into a deeper political and economic crisis, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, after Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa recently wrote to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking a meeting between…
BUSINESSMAN and Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Mayor Justice Wadyajena, together with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses — Pious Manamike, Maxmore Njani, Fortunate Molai and Chiedza Danha — is off the hook for now after the court granted the quintet’s application for refusal of further remand. This comes as the five accused had been facing fraud and…
THE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) acting deputy executive director Sonja LeightonKone, jetted into the country yesterday and is expected to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior government officials to discuss issues on climate change, waste and pollution. She will be in the country until Saturday. Leighton-Kone is accompanied by Frank Turyatunga, the regional…
PARLIAMENT has opposed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform chairperson Tonderai Chidawa, who is challenging the authenticity of the preliminary delimitation report that it received from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to analyse and make recommendations. Chidawa wants the ConCourt to nullify Parliament recommendations on the report, arguing that the…
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) yesterday released Ordinary Level results of all candidates who wrote the examinations in November at Mukaro High School in Masvingo province, after initially withholding them last week. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Zimsec spokesperson Nicky Dhlamini confirmed that the examination board had withheld the boarding school’s…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s focus is on running the country, working to improve the lives of all Zimbabweans and preparing for this year’s crunch national elections rather than engaging Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa. So said presidential spokesperson George Charamba yesterday, after Chamisa recently wrote to Mnangagwa again seeking a face-to-face meeting between…
