Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw SIX people have appeared in court over charges of money laundering and illegal foreign currency activities involving a staggering $5 billion, the Daily News reports. The six — a Harare resident and five others from Mutare — first appeared in court in the capital…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw MANY Zimbabweans, including ordinary consumers and economic experts, have cautiously welcomed the country’s new five-year economic plan — which authorities say will further improve the lives of long-suffering citizens. In addition, the people who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said the government needed to continue with its efforts to…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF REPORTER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZESA Holdings(Zesa) yesterday said electricity supplies are depressed in the country, citing low power imports and creaky generation units at both Hwange and Kariba power stations, the Daily News reports. This comes as one of the country’s main suppliers of power, Eskom of South Africa, is experiencing major shortages…
Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A KAROI village head and his secretary have been arrested over theft of Pfumvudza agricultural scheme inputs by including the names of dead people on the list of beneficiaries. Reuben Muza, 45, and Shepherd Mudhochi, 49, were arrested after police received a tip-off. The two would allegedly allocate the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, says the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans are set to improve further on the back of a stabilising economy and steadying prices of goods, the Daily News reports. Mnangagwa said this yesterday while launching the country’s new economic blueprint — the National Development Strategy (NDS1) — which succeeds the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP)….
THE State is seeking to separate the alleged fake abduction trial of MDC Alliance youth leaders Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa. Mamombe is receiving treatment at a mental health institution after regional magistrate Bianca Makwande ruled that she is not fit to stand trial. As a result, the State wants to proceed with…
TEACHERS’ unions have threatened to take legal action against the government if it goes ahead with its plan to take disciplinary measures against educators who are currently on strike, the Daily News reports. Last week, the Public Service Commission directed the ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to invoke the “no work, no pay” principle…
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police is hunting for three drivers who were involved in hit-and-run accidents in Harare and Bulawayo. In the first case, a police officer was killed when he was run over by a Mitsubishi Canter truck which was allegedly picking up passengers along Simon Muzenda Street, formerly Fourth Street, in the capital yesterday….
A MAJOR row has erupted among relatives of the late national hero and Cabinet minister, Perrance Shiri, as they fight to benefit from his significant estate, the Daily News can reveal. This comes as it has emerged that the former Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister left behind several children — with many of…
AUTHORITIES could be forced to re-introduce a tough national lockdown to prevent a second wave of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports. This comes as health experts — alarmed by the rising numbers of new coronavirus infections in the country — have implored authorities to do more to prevent a second…
