HARARE – Manyame and Chitungwiza residents have welcomed the relocation of the Dema tollgate but expect it to be done expediently. Chitungwiza and Manyame Residents Association (Camera) director Marvellous Kumalo said while the move was welcome, residents were praying that this was not a political gimmick. The move comes just after Camera had written to…
HARARE – Harare city fathers are failing to plan, with the city now on the verge of imploding under its own traffic burden, a top engineer has said. In an interview with the Daily News, engineer Tawona Mtungwazi who runs an engineering consultancy company said the council is being run by unqualified people watching traffic…
HARARE – A boycott from this month’s harmonised elections as mooted by the MDC Alliance can only have an impact if it has the buy-in of all opposition parties. The Alliance is bitter that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is not transparent in its approach to electoral issues, including the printing of ballot papers. If…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cannot afford another disputed election given its perilous state of the economy, analysts have said. The country’s economy has been on a free-fall, with analysts saying its long history of disputed polls was a major contributing factor. To break the vicious cycle of disputed polls, they said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s military will accept the outcome of the July 30 historic election, and will work with the winning candidate to ensure a stable transition, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd]
LONDON – When Donald Trump meets Queen Elizabeth next week, he will become the 12th U.S. President that the monarch has met during her 66 years on the throne, the longest in British history. Apart from Lyndon Johnson, Elizabeth has met every U.S leader since Harry S. Truman but no other U.S. presidential encounter has generated…
JOHANNESBURG – An auction is being held in South Africa for the opportunity to spend a night in Nelson Mandela’s former prison on Robben Island. A charity is taking bids, opening at $250,000 (£330,000), to allow 67 people to stay overnight in the old maximum-security jail, where the former South African anti-apartheid leader spent 18…
HARARE – Evergreen Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo, returning to Harare for yet another potentially explosive bira in December as he has already inked a contract with local promoters. Mapfumo’s publicist Blessing Vava confirmed the reports to the Daily News yesterday. “Yes, we have signed a pre-agreement contract but we will make the announcement once all…
HARARE – The central bank has warned that Zimbabwe’s recurrent trade deficits poses significant challenges as the country continues to rely on export revenues to generate liquidity and support domestic economic activity. In its March report, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said Zimbabwe needed to attract both domestic and foreign investment to rejuvenate industry….
HARARE – The new curriculum launched in January 2017 by the former Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora, which among other changes requires “O” Level students to sit for combined science practical examinations, is very progressive. It is inspiring in terms of government’s long-term plan of addressing Zimbabwe’s high unemployment rate through teaching students…
