HARARE – Government’s plan to introduce a law which allows parents to pay school fees with livestock and labour has become a butt of bad jokes on social media which has since gone viral as long suffering citizens make their views known in ways that provide comical relief. The Movable Property Security Interests Bill which…
HARARE – Government will enact the Computers and Cyber Crime Bill, which will empower it to snoop into people’s phones, before the country holds the eagerly anticipated 2018 elections. Information Communication Technology minister (ICT) Supa Mandiwanzira said enactment of the Bill into law should not coincide with the crucial polls. Mandiwanzira made these remarks while…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West and Norton MP Temba Mliswa says only powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe can save the drowning ruling party’s national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. Mliswa, who was expelled from Zanu PF in 2014 and thus is familiar with the bloodletting Zanu PF tribal and succession wars, said the influential…
MUZARABANI – About 300km from Harare into Mashonaland Central Province lies a dry and remote area called Muzarabani where people somehow manage to scratch a living despite both natural and man-made disasters including extreme whether temperatures. The area falls under the natural farming region five which is characterised by high temperatures and low rainfall throughout…
HARARE – Limiting access to the voters’ roll by attaching exorbitant costs to it suggests an attempt to conceal it from stakeholders, an election watchdog has said. Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) charges $100 000 to political parties who want to have access to a copy of the voters’ roll. Election Resource Centre, ERC director Tawanda…
HARARE – The police service has started incentivising the neighbourhood watch committees by giving them job offers and uniforms, Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni has said. The neighbourhood watch scheme was introduced in 1984 by the police in a bid to involve the public in policing issues. The scheme mainly targets property owners who…
MUTARE – Poor planning and lack of market linkages are responsible for the huge post harvest loses local farmers routinely suffer, a senior government official has said. Agritex director, Bernard Mache told the Daily News on the sidelines of a Multi-sectoral Community Based Approach Stunting (MCBAS) meeting that farmers needed to secure markets and monitor…
HARARE – As Zimbabweans celebrate 37 years of independence, the Daily News spoke to a number of people with diverse interests to find out how our journey has been so far. Zimbabwe’s independence is celebrated on April 18 each year since President Robert Mugabe was voted into office in 1980. Over the years, however, Zimbabweans…
HARARE – Hyenas continue to prowl at the door of embattled Zanu PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, with his party enemies vowing yesterday that it is “just a matter of time” before he faces the firing squad in the warring former liberation movement. This comes as it emerged yesterday that Manicaland is now also…
HARARE – Zimbabweans from all walks of life yesterday bemoaned the wretched life that they continue to endure under President Robert Mugabe and his warring Zanu PF’s misrule of the past 37 years of the country’s independence from Britain. This comes as Zimbabwe’s economy continues to die — as manifested by rising poverty levels and…
