Politics

LAWYERS representing businessman Delish Nguwaya last week demanded a trial date on charges of misrepresenting to Government that his company was a medical firm when he sought tenders for Covid-19 medical supplies using Drax SAGL and Drax International. Mr Admire Rubaya and Mr Tafadzwa Hungwe applying for Nguwaya to be …

THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Amon Murwira has bluntly told incapacitated state university lecturers to leave the profession if they were unhappy with their current wages. According to a communiqué issued by the Zimbabwe Unions Staff Association (ZUSA), the minister snubbed the association’s representatives and only hand-picked one …

Up to 60 MDC Alliance youths entered the party’s Harvest House headquarters in central Harare on Sunday night, four months after the building was occupied by the rival MDC-T party with the help of security services. The youths told ZimLive by phone that they had “found each other” with a …

Criminal Investigations director Commissioner has been remanded in custody by Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa. He is facing two counts of obstructing or attempting to defeat the course of justice. Charumbira is also being accused of criminal abuse of office on another count. His lawyer Tabison Bvekwa did not waste the …

The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance (MDC-A) said it has foiled an attempted hostile takeover of its Kwekwe offices by youths linked to the judicially-created MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora. In a post on Twitter, MDC-A youth league leader Obey Sithole said some of their youths were injured during the melee. He …

SCHOOLS have been urged to be considerate in their proposals for new fees ahead of the reopening of schools from Monday. While exchange rates and prices have been stable since the end of June following the introduction of foreign exchange auctions, most fees and levies were set in the first …

Civil servants and Government pensioners will continue to get their tax-free US dollar Covid-19 allowances until December. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima announced the extension during a virtual Junior Cabinet meeting yesterday when responding to concerns raised by the Junior Cabinet that more should be …

The Lacoste faction, which seized the ruling ZANU PF party during the November 2017 military coup, is wary of remnants of Generation 40 (G40) faction who are plotting a comeback through the impending district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) elections. ZANU PF secretary for security in the politburo, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed to the Daily News on …

Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been acquitted of corruption charges. Mandiwanzira was facing charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly awarded Megawatt Energy, a South African-based company consultancy, work to audit the US$218 954 843.00 deal between Net-One and Huawei Technologies. …

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has condemned the heinous and evil actions which lead to the death of young children for rituals and witchcraft purposes. The call by the President comes a few days after the death of a seven-year-old Murehwa boy, whose mutilated body was found being eaten by dogs after he …