BULAWAYO – Job Sikhala who recently rejoined the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday said President Robert Mugabe must quit as waiting for the 2018 elections will lead the country into economic quagmire. Sikhala was addressing a rally at Stanley Square in Bulawayo where he told MDC supporters that his reunion with Tsvangirai was…
HARARE – Harare city councillors have given Town Clerk Tendai Mahachi two weeks to pay workers outstanding salaries and deal with defeated Zanu PF youth chairman Jim Kunaka. Kunaka has taken personal possession of the council’s revenue collection in Mbare pocketing at least $4 000 daily, while the rest of other council employees have gone…
HARARE – Mariyawanda Nzuwah, the Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman, has joined the President Robert Mugabe bootlicking club, saying the 90-year-old leader is a messenger of God. Introducing Mugabe during the luncheon to celebrate his birthday on Friday, Nzuwah showered praises on the the leader. “You are a messenger sent by God to liberate and…
HARARE – Agriculture minister Joseph Made remains clueless on turning around fortunes of the agriculture sector, 14 years after being handed the portfolio. For the past few years, Made has blamed economic sanctions, lack of funding and perennial droughts over the sector’s failure to grow enough crops to feed the whole nation. However, following the…
HARARE – The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has called on government to adopt the Consumer Protection Draft Bill into law. This call comes as the world is celebrating consumer rights day. The Bill is expected to deal with substandard goods flooding Zimbabwe and unfair prices, but four years have passed before the bill has…
HARARE – Goromonzi residents have demanded an open meeting with the rural council officials to explain the land disputes in the area. The residents represented by Simukai Rural Residents Trust, have asked that the council come and clarify the issue of communal land. John Masimba Manyanya told the Daily News that the council was taking…
BULAWAYO – A Bulawayo businessman who refused to pay $500 in maintenance fees shocked the court when he revealed his torn khaki trousers as a way of proving insolvency. Pardon Nyika, 48 disputed his wife’s claims that he is a businessman who owns shops and earns up to $1 000 per month. Sinikiwe Nyathi, 42…
KUALA LUMPUR – Some 25 countries are now involved in a vast search operation for the missing airliner that disappeared over a week ago, Malaysian officials say. The search area – from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean – takes in vast tracts of land and sea. An already complex search operation has become…
HARARE – Civil servants, who are considered among the least paid in the country, last Friday celebrated lavishly President Robert Mugabe’s birthday at a time when government is failing to meet their salary demands. The event, organised by the Civil Service Commission (CSC), was attended by senior government officials and securocrats at a local hotel….
BULAWAYO – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday scoffed at suggestions by Zanu PF that the opposition party was crumbling under the weight of internal divisions over leadership renewal. He said this would never happen as long as Zimbabweans yearn for a change due to problems brought about by the ruling party. Speaking at a rally…
