HARARE – Opposition parties have told President Robert Mugabe to use Thursday’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) to announce his retirement as he no longer has any viable solutions to extricate Zimbabwe from the current crisis. After last year’s debacle when the nonagenarian ploughed through the wrong speech — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson…
HARARE – Zanu PF Masvingo provincial chairperson Ammasi Nenjana has slammed ambitious individuals in the province who are pushing for provincial elections just after the party’s annual conference next month. Last month, the party’s provincial treasurer Killer Zivhu declared that he was ready to lead the province if elected but Nenjana said such statements were…
HARARE – More than 3 000 secondary school girls have dropped out of school since January this year due to child marriages, Plan International gender officer Tino Hondo said. In a dialogue between ministers of religion yesterday, Hondo said 3 650 girls dropped out of school compared to only 251 boys in the same age…
HARARE – To curb the massive brain drain which has affected the country’s health sector, particularly in rural areas, the Health Professionals Authority (HPA) has proposed availing allowances, incentives and training quotas to health practitioners. HPA president Adolf Macheka said a number of policy options could be introduced to make rural deployments more attractive. “The…
MUTARE – Almost half of all pregnancies in the country are unplanned for because of poor individual contraceptive choices, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has said. ZNFPC provincial manager Dyson Masvingise told a media briefing in Mutare recently that 40 percent of pregnancies in Zimbabwe are unplanned for because of a disconnect between…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is pushing ahead with plans to slash prices and salaries as a way of reducing production costs and improve competitiveness. Devaluation aims primarily at influencing the competitiveness of a country in the short-term by mimicking the effects of nominal currency devaluation, and it takes the form of…
HARARE – About $9,4 million worth of bond coins are presently circulating in the Zimbabwean financial system, after the country pumped over $6 million worth of the coins since September last year, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said. With circulation of bond notes — backed by a $200 million Afreximbank facility and pegged at…
HARARE – A fish rots from the head is an old phrase whose origins are not entirely known but whose meaning is so poignant to the Zimbabwean crisis. It is common knowledge now that Zanu PF is a party that thrives on corruption and that its leader President Robert Mugabe is not sincere in tackling…
HARARE – Ordinary Zimbabweans have expressed a mixture of both hope and fear over today’s introduction of bond notes into the market by under pressure authorities who hope that the surrogate currency will ease the country’s severe cash shortages. Many Harare residents who spoke to the Daily News yesterday also said as fearful as they…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s deadly tribal, factional and succession wars are getting more intractable by the day, with the two main party camps going at each other hammer and tongs in Mashonaland Central yesterday. The Daily News learnt last night that angry allies of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who apparently wanted to pass a vote…
