© CHITUNGWIZA residents who built on top of sewer lines are now living in a ticking health time bomb as sewerage bursts have erupted causing fears of waterborne diseases. Community Water Alliance programmes manager Hardlife Mudzingwa said cases have been reported before but with no remedy. [GoogleAd] Mudzingwa said unless the problem is solved, Chitungwiza which…
© THREE years after the Mbare Biogas Digester project commenced amid expectation that it would be functional by January 2017 — it still has to be completed. A tour of the designated place behind one of Mbare flats in Harare revealed that the place has not been maintained. [GoogleAd] The biogas digester was to be fed…
© IN THE past week, there have been issues involving Gaika, a mining concern in the Midlands Province. The crux of the matter primarily involved the takeover of the mine by marauding machete-wielding artisanal miners who have been terrorising the province’s mining areas and are believed to have the blessings of a minister who hails…
WHILE Zimbabwe today opens the 60th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo which will host thousands of delegates from across the globe, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and his colleagues in government have to convince all those attending that indeed our country is truly open for business. The diamond jubilee show running…
© EDITOR — The environment is a critical component of our livelihood, unfortunately taken as a nonessential and freely given resource. We humans as super beings tend to take the earth system contemptuously, and a resource without limit. [GoogleAd] If we take it from the foundation of nature and the human race, God created nature…
© EDITOR —The axing of former Sudan president Omar al-Bashir strips naked the overrated thing called power. It robs of its beauty and admiration and reveals how political trap power can be. We all agree that at a basic level, our leaders need some form of power in order to lead. They need the power…
© DESPITE being rich in minerals and human resources, Zimbabwe has been reduced into a begging country, following years of economic decline in a move observers have said will lead the country nowhere. Zimbabwe is reeling from years of economic pain, which the ruling Zanu PF party has attributed to sanctions imposed by western countries…
© CENTRE for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) is a local non-profit organisation established in 2008 mainly to promote citizen participation in governance and empower citizens through rights awareness and promoting dialogue with duty-bearers such as elected Councillors, Members of Parliament and engaging public institutions for better service delivery. The Daily News Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda spoke to…
© MANUFACTURES have blamed retailers for the price madness prevailing on the market, accusing them of unethically adding high-profit margins on products, hence suffocating the consuming public. Consumers have for the past weeks bore the brunt of severe price hikes which have reduced demand for most basic commodities in the country. [GoogleAd] At the same…
© ZIMBABWE’s economic crisis is not a result of currency shortage but low production, hence government must look at the real issue, economic experts have said. Recently, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube revealed that Zimbabwe will introduce its own currency in the next 12 months, an announcement that seems to have confused the market with some…
