HARARE – Students studying towards medical degrees at the University of Zimbabwe’s College Of Health Sciences now qualify to secure licences to practice in California after they graduate, University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has said. This follows a long-standing collaborative partnership between UZ and University of California which was established in 1994. “In a most exciting…
HARARE – Revelations that government is issuing Treasury Bills to raise money to pay bonuses for the 300 000-plus civil service confirms what we have been saying all along. Government’s decision to pay the unbudgeted 2016 bonus after pressure from employee unions is likely to worsen the situation as Treasury Bills worth $180 million are…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the country should adopt bond notes as a primary currency to alleviate cash shortages and solve economic challenges. RBZ director Economic Research Simon Nyarota said calls for the formal adoption of the South African rand as an anchor currency were not going to solve the country’s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) independence is the top most important ingredient of free and fair elections. All other technologies and mechanisms are useless if Zec is not an independent electoral body. All political parties, Zanu PF included should aim to divorce themselves from the operations of Zec and allow the esteemed body to…
HARARE – The Zanu PF enemies of the party’s under-siege national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, are raining in deadly blows and ratcheting up their fierce assault on him all round — making his political future in the warring former liberation movement look increasingly tenuous. This comes as it was confirmed to the Daily News yesterday…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says the chaos and irregularities witnessed in the weekend’s Mwenezi East by-election — which had an unusually high voter turnout despite the warring Zanu PF contesting against little known opponents — were a bad omen for 2018. The MDC’s statement yesterday came in the wake of Zanu PF…
HARARE – After years of mudslinging, the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Tendai Biti, are now back on talking terms with the latter saying it has now realised that it was pandering to Zanu PF whims when it used to attack the former prime minister. Speaking to…
HARARE – Despite the fact that the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) outlawed child marriages, the practice is still common in remote areas like Hurungwe and Magunje as children are marrying early to fend for their families and also because there is nothing to do after school, Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa said. With…
HARARE – A bumper harvest does not translate into food security for the country if storage facilities are not adequate, World Food Programme country director Eddie Rowe said. In an interview with the Daily News, Rowe said the country’s storage facilities are either in poor shape or non-existent, and thus may affect the country’s maize…
MUTARE – Zanu PF youths have vowed to invade Nyanga National Parks and an Allied Timbers plantation in Chimanimani as well as seize urban land in Mutare in a desperate bid to award themselves residential stands before the watershed 2018 elections. Zanu PF Manicaland provincial youth league chairperson Mubuso Chingunu told a provincial youth league…
