APOSTOLIC Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) president Amon Madawo, who recently won a Supreme Court case to lead the church, has petitioned the High Court seeking to interdict a breakaway faction leader Cossam Chiangwa from using a logo similar to that of his church. In the application filed last Friday, Madawo said Chiangwa had formed…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO THE Covid-19 inoculation exercise has resumed in Bulawayo after the city had suspended the programme for a week owing to lack of first doses of vaccines. This comes as the country’s second largest city has experienced a huge volume of people volunteering to take the jab in recent weeks. At the…
ZANU PF has ordered its provincial structures to complete a cell restructuring exercise by this Friday as the party prepares for its October national conference set for Bindura. Speaking during a recent policy meeting, Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu said the party bigwigs were already verifying the restructuring process. “The…. deadline of 18th…
AUTHORITIES are cracking down on businesses that they accuse of violating the country’s new foreign currency laws by pricing their goods and services using black market rates. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) released a list of 18 companies that it accused of breaching these laws which criminalise the selling of wares using parallel…
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, has reiterated his call for direct dialogue between him and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to help to come up with a roadmap for the fast-approaching 2023 national elections — to avoid more poll disputes going forward. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa was adamant that the country’s…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has reached out to the sparsely-populated and marginalised San community in Tsholotsho, as the organisation starts the mapping and household listing exercise ahead of next year’s population census. This comes as the government last week announced that the head counting exercise will commence in April next year with results…
SUSPENDED Harare City Council (HCC) housing allocations officer Aaron Tayerera is back in court facing fresh charges of corruptly allocating residential stands to undeserving beneficiaries, prejudicing the local authority of over US$300 000. Tayerera was not asked to plead to the charges yesterday when he appeared before regional magistrate Esthere Chivasa, who freed him on…
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has launched a fresh bid to block Chief Justice Luke Malaba from continuing with his term of office after filing another application seeking the implementation of a recent High Court judgment nixing his tenure extension. In the fresh urgent chamber application filed last Friday with the High Court, the…
POLICE say they will descend heavily on members of the public, bottle stores, bars and other businesses which violate the country’s recently-revised Covid-19 regulations. This comes after Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Zimbabwe’s Health minister, announced new strict Covid-19 measures on Saturday, after the government noticed rising complacency among citizens. National police spokesperson,…
THE government is pushing back calls by opposition parties and pro-democracy groups for the country to institute electoral reforms ahead of the fast-approaching 2023 national elections. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi described the push as mere “politicking” — adding that authorities had come to expect this “clamour for electoral reforms…
