Regis Chingawo and Brighton Muronzereyi CONCERNS are growing that the country could witness fresh sharp hikes in the prices of basic goods if authorities don’t deal urgently with the resurgent foreign currency parallel market, which has seen the Zimbabwe dollar weakening markedly in recent weeks. This comes as the seemingly jinxed local currency has now gone…
ZANU PF Mashonaland West provincial executive committee has issued a prohibition order against its provincial youth chairperson Tapiwa Masenda and secretary for administration Rudo Munyonga, for allegedly attacking Chinese investors operating a mine in Mhangura. In a statement yesterday, Mashonaland West provincial spokesperson Nigel Murambiwa said there was no room in the ruling party for…
Ketty Nyoni UNICEF says it needs about US$47.8 million to, among other things, offer humanitarian assistance to three million people, which includes two million children in the country. In a report at the weekend, Unicef said of those two million children who needed humanitarian aid, 1.1 million would be in need of lifesaving health, HIV…
A FORMER police officer who was on the run after allegedly gunning down three people in Wedza last week was finally arrested in dramatic fashion yesterday, as he tried to cross into neighbouring Mozambique. Jaison Muvhevhi, who is said to have survived a fierce gun exchange with security forces near Rusape at the weekend, was…
TWENTY five members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), who were arrested at the weekend in Budiriro, Harare, are scheduled to appear back in court today for continuation of their bail application after they were yesterday remanded in custody. The 25 were arrested over the weekend after they allegedly “participated in a gathering with…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has broken its silence on the raging debates around its draft delimitation report, saying it takes all the inputs made to date by key stakeholders seriously. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, in the wake of Parliament’s ad-hoc committee on the report presenting its findings to the august House…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is disturbed by increasing cases of violence against the party and its members. This comes as the party’s MPs, Costa Machingauta and Amos Chibaya — who were arrested in Harare at the weekend — are set to appear in court today, together with…
LOCAL government minister July Moyo has been stripped of the powers to make decisions on behalf of local authorities in the country, after the High Court last week declared that Section 314 of the Urban Councils Act was invalid. According to the clause, a minister has the authority to overturn, postpone, or revoke council…
A Chinese investor, Pei Zhenhua, chairperson and principal of Suzhou TA and A Ultra, plans to invest in the construction of a lithium processing plant in Mutoko, Mashonaland East. Zhenhua claimed the project, which would generate two million tonnes of lithium annually, will benefit local communities and the nation’s economy. “Our target is…
TWO Bulawayo brothers have been sentenced to four years in prison each by a local magistrate’s court for assaulting a Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus conductor and robbing him of $2 000, which is just equivalent to US$3. Nhlanhla Gangeni, 25, and Siphosenkosi Gangeni, 21, appeared at the Tredgold Magistrate’s Court in Bulawayo,…
