THE government is having sleepless nights over the continued desecration of cultural shrines in and outside the country, including Sekuru Kaguvi’s grave. Responding to enquiries by legislators during a question-and-answer session in the Senate, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said President Emmerson Mnangagwa had directed him to come up with a strategic plan on how…
ZANU PF has deployed its politburo members around the country to audit the party’s grassroots structures ahead of the former liberation movement’s outstanding provincial elections. This comes amid fears that fake structures abound in the ruling party which is wracked by growing factionalism which recently prompted the indefinite suspension of the regional polls. Zanu PF…
AUTHORITIES have cancelled two concessions that had been awarded to a Chinese company in Mashonaland East, following complaints by villagers who were set to be displaced by the granite mining project. This comes after local community leaders wrote to the government in August saying that they had not been consulted when the concessions were awarded…
Andile Tshuma THE Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) has warned of escalating human and wildlife conflict, with 60 people having been killed by wild animals in the first 10 months of 2021. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zimparks spokesperson Tinashe Farawo, pictured, said between January and December last year, about 50 people were…
A HARARE man Tungamirai Mukwazhi (41) was arraigned before magistrate Denis Mangosi last week on allegations of fraud involving fuel worth US$91 200. Mukwazhi will be back at the Harare Magistrates Court today with the magistrate expected to rule on his bail application. Prosecutor Anesu Chirenje alleges that Mukwazhi approached the complainant saying he was…
FORMER Zanu PF youth league national political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu, says he will not stop his fight for freedom after the court declined to grant his application for refusal of further remand. Tsenengamu is accused of inciting public violence using social media and the trial was scheduled for last Tuesday, but could not proceed resulting…
AS MORE and more people, including churches and leaders of political parties, step up their campaigns for much-needed national dialogue, another government…
POLICE and other members of the security services last week intercepted six buses and four combis carrying smuggled goods and border jumpers coming from neighbouring South Africa along the Harare-Beitbridge highway. Earlier reports on social media had claimed that the bus crews and passengers were staging a demonstration against police at the Chicago checkpoint along…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF have come out to defend an application by a youth member Sybeth Musengezi, who challenged his ascension to power in 2017, saying a sitting president cannot be sued. The party has also distanced itself from Musengezi whom they said does not appear in their books with no record of…
AT LEAST 180 households in Manicaland Province were damaged by hailstorms which occurred on October 31. This comes after the Meteorology Services…
