HARARE – After losing approximately $2 billion to corruption in 2013 alone, the Zimbabwean government lacks the willpower to fight the sleaze especially in public office, Transparency International (TI) has said. According to its “People and Corruption: Africa Survey 2015 report” TI says out of a total of 22, Zimbabwe is among the 18 governments…
HARARE – Post-congress Zanu PF bigwigs opposed to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Robert Mugabe have vowed that a woman will return to the ruling party’s powerful presidium this year, most likely at his expense. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, party officials linked to the former liberation movement’s ambitious Young…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s ever deteriorating education sector could suffer more damage after the country’s under-appreciated rural teachers said they would go on the streets today in a desperate endeavour to force the broke government to honour its dues and pledges to civil servants. If the teachers’ threatened demonstration does take off, it will become the…
HARARE – Health workers say they will not go back to work until they get their salaries since they do not have bus fares. This comes after an outcry from thousands of treatment-seeking patients whose lives have been left in the hands of God after nurses and doctors failed to pitch up for work protesting…
MUTARE – Despite villagers in drought-ravaged Musikavanhu area in Chipinge District are being forced to sell their ailing livestock at giveaway prices of as little as $30 — as they seek to salvage the little they can. Zimbabwe is going through an arid spell and there are fears that more livestock could die as the…
NEW DELHI – An earthquake measuring 6.7 magnitude has hit northeast India, near its borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, killing at least nine people. The quake hit at 04:35 local time (23:05 GMT Sunday) about 29km (18 miles) northwest of Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Strong tremors…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous decline that is widely blamed on President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF — and which is now manifested by a stone-broke State that can’t pay its workers, as well as rising poverty levels in the country — analysts warn of looming civil strife in 2016. The analysts…
HARARE – Paranoid Zimbabwean authorities interrogated outspoken preacher Ancelimo Magaya on why he was planning a convergence of political parties, churches and civil society, the Daily News on Sunday has learnt. The bishop, who is the director of Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD), an organisation that has been working on unifying political parties in the country,…
HARARE – The strike by doctors and nurses is beginning to bite, leaving the lives of thousands of poverty-stricken Zimbabweans in the hands of God as many health workers refuse to pitch up for work following the government’s continued failure to pay them their December salaries. Harare Central Hospital was among the hardest-hit public health…
HARARE – Dynamos will hope the new year brings about a change in fortune as they seek to put behind them a disappointing 2015 in which the former champions failed to win any major silverware. The Glamour Boys saw their four-year dominance on the Castle Premiership title ended by Chicken Inn, with the former champions…
