HARARE - University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is barring MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore from resuming his studies ostensibly because he has a pending criminal case. Madzore, along with 28 MDC activists, are jointly facing murder charges. Madzore was released late last...

HARARE - Zanu PF Masvingo Province has disowned former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) advisor and aspiring senator Munyaradzi Kereke, saying the maverick businessman was not in the party structures. This follows allegations that Kereke entered into a “gentleman’s agreement” with...

HARARE - Professor Gordon Chavhunduka, president of the Zimbabwe Traditional Healers Association of Zimbabwe (Zinatha) has died. According to George Kandiero, the Zinatha information and publicity secretary, Chavhunduka, 81, passed on yesterday at a Harare’s Avenues Clinic after a long battle...

HARARE - Whistle blower website, WikiLeaks, is on the verge of releasing millions more confidential US diplomatic cables with Zimbabwe bracing for a fresh potential fallout. The reports are likely to cause panic and tremors especially in Zanu PF where...

HARARE - Critical organisations and institutions in Zimbabwe should be taught Chinese to bridge the linguistic barrier between Harare and Beijing, a University of Zimbabwe (UZ) official said. Director of Confucius Institute (CI) Professor Pedzisai Mashiri said UZ would want to...

HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has said its youths and supporters in Masvingo are being frustrated while registering as voters at the local Registrar General’s office (RG’s office). At the same time, the party said, Zanu PF supporters are...

HARARE - Soldiers deployed at Mataga Growth Point in Mberengwa are harassing villagers in the area for failing to produce identification documents (ID) and allegedly backing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. The soldiers were deployed at a small army camp at...

HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe has returned home to prepare for the forthcoming elections. There was swirling speculation that the Namibian jurist could be replaced after extended period of absenteeism that saw his deputy Joyce Kazembe...

HARARE - A councillor who was sacked after blowing the whistle on $1,6 million corruption in the Umguza rural district in Matabeleland North has dragged Local Government, Rural and Urban Development minister Ignatius Chombo to court for unlawful termination. Councillor Mxolisi...

MASVINGO - About 43 vehicles belonging to the beleaguered Masvingo City Council will go under the hammer next Wednesday, the local deputy sheriff has said. The first batch of cars was attached last year while more were attached last week after...

HARARE - A man who was sentenced to death has approached the High Court appealing against the court’s ruling. Bvumai Machena on Wednesday appeared before High Court Judge Alphias Chitakunye, following a Bulawayo court ruling ordering that he should be put...

HARARE - Environment and Natural Resources minister Francis Nhema is now officially divorced from his wife Louise after High Court Judge Hlekani Mwayera granted an order authorising the break-up. Nhema’s wife, Louise Sehlule Nhema, daughter of the late Vice President Joshua...

MASVINGO - Police in Chiredzi yesterday retrieved the bodies of a Chilonga man and his son who drowned in Runde River on Sunday after a minibus they were travelling in was washed away by a flooded river. Masvingo police spokesperson, Peter...

HARARE - Four officials in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC who allegedly called President Robert Mugabe “a thief” have been summoned to the Chinhoyi Magistrates’ Court. The four, MDC Mashonaland West deputy chairperson Eddy Ndirayire, Hurungwe North district youth organising secretary...

HARARE - Munyaradzi Kereke has denied that his bid to pump $100 000 to rebury 50 freedom fighters in Bikita was a vote-buying gimmick, claiming it was a government programme.   The ANZ, publishers of the Daily News, received a letter...

HARARE - Geologists have questioned self-proclaimed prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s claim of mysterious gold boom, saying in Zimbabwe the precious mineral can be found “everywhere”. They said Zimbabweans have always picked up gold since pre-colonial times. The controversial-but-popular prophet has courted debate...

HARARE - Zimbabwe’s electoral body has defended its contact with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai saying allegations that he is meddling with the electoral process are dishonest. Joyce Kazembe, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) deputy commission chairperson, said this after meeting Tsvangirai...

HARARE - Harare City Council yesterday received borehole water purification gadgets valued at $150 000 from mining giant Mbada Diamonds. The donation of 235 inline chlorinators follows council’s appeal for corporates to assist in purifying polluted boreholes scattered around Harare’s suburbs....

HARARE - The inaugural MDC secretary for security, Job Sikhala, who now leads the smallest faction of the popular party, has a lot of fire in his belly. He might have been relegated to the lower echelons of politics but he...

HARARE - A 43-year-old murder suspect is battling for life after he was shot by police officers while fleeing from arrest. Magistrate Tendai Mahwe yesterday had to travel to Parirenyatwa Hospital to remand Richard Timba. The case will be heard again...

HARARE - A school head has been arraigned before the courts on charges of criminal abuse of office after she allegedly collected money from a parent in exchange for a Grade One place. Stella Dlakama, 61, was allegedly approached on December...

HARARE - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court will next week set down a final appeal by a renegade Anglican bishop who is challenging the dismissal by the High Court of an urgent application to stop evictions from church properties he had unlawfully seized....

HARARE - Police have nabbed over 50 touts in Harare city centre who will appear in court today. This comes after rank marshals and touts who had been removed from bus ranks last year begin to resurface. Provincial spokesperson Tadious Chibanda...

HARARE - Some schools have been barring students who have not yet paid fees from attending classes, in direct defiance of a government order. Yesterday, the Daily News was inundated with reports that school pupils had been barred from entering premises...