HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is between the proverbial rock and a hard place as he battles to mitigate the country’s worsening economic rot — with his impending business trip to Eastern Europe drawing fire from many sceptical quarters which doubt that these jaunts will yield anything tangible. Mnangagwa is set to leave for Belarus,…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under-fire government yesterday held an emergency meeting over the country’s worsening fuel crisis. The debilitating fuel shortages have now resulted in desperate calls from stressed business leaders who want authorities to allocate them special supplies to stop the country’s burning economy from imploding altogether. Observations by the Daily News show…
HARARE – Government will today meet the Apex Council to review civil servants’ salaries at the National Joint Negotiations Council (NJNC) at Kaguvi Building. This comes after civil servants demanded to be paid in United States dollars and gave the government a 14-day notice to resolve their incapacitation or face a full-blown strike. In a…
HARARE – Hundreds of students across the country have been turned away from school for non-payment of fees despite government’s directive not to send learners away. This comes after Primary and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima discouraged schools from sending children away for non-payment of fees suggesting they should not be punished on behalf of…
HARARE – A man who impregnated his 18-year-old niece before his wife took her to a traditional healer to terminate the pregnancy has been jailed for four years. James Chihuri, 51, of Seke, was initially charged with rape when he appeared before Harare Regional magistrate Thembe Kuwanda. He was, however, convicted of incest after he…
HARARE – While it is the MDC’s democratic right to demonstrate over the worsening economic situation in the country, we also expect its shadow government to proffer solutions on the on-going crisis. The MDC should by now have learnt that demonstrations alone will not wake up a Zanu PF government that has for decades been…
HARARE – Cabinet failed to sit on Tuesday despite the fact that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had to cut short his annual leave to attend to a crippling strike by doctors in public hospitals. Cabinet is still to meet this year. Even though Mnangagwa had to abruptly end his vacation, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga continues as…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition has warned that a worsening economic crisis will have a negative effect on neighbouring South Africa, to where a majority of Zimbabweans are fleeing. Warnings by the MDC come amid a crippling strike by doctors and industrial action planned by teachers. The protests are the latest in a series of…
HARARE – A unit of Zesa Holdings has created a whistle-blower initiative to reward those who report suspected theft and vandalism of electricity infrastructure. The goal of the programme, run by the Zimbabwe Electricity and Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC), is to invite citizens to volunteer valuable information that would lead to successful prosecutions. “ZETDC is…
HARARE – Former Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora and his wife Millicent yesterday lost household property worth thousands of dollars after failing to settle an undisclosed debt to a local bank. The couple’s property which include a washing machine, two wooden sideboards, two-door steel cabinets, a massaging machine, a broken desk, an electronic digital safe, books,…
