© FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has savaged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for remaining silent while the economy burns. [GoogleAd] Biti tweeted that the government was clueless on how to solve the current economic crisis. The opposition MDC vice president’s attack comes at a time when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has said it expected…
© ADULTS living with HIV are now being forced to take antiretroviral (ARV) drugs meant for paediatric patients as the country is currently facing a shortage of second line drugs. [GoogleAd] This was disclosed by Anna Sango, the Zimbabwe Young Positives national coordinator, during a joint sitting of the Health and Thematic Parliamentary Committees on…
© HARARE councillors are demanding that the director of works closes down car sales businesses that have invaded the city’s open spaces. [GoogleAd] During a full council meeting recently, Mt Pleasant councillor Jacob Mafume said the car sales were now an eyesore. Mafume and other councillors who seconded his motion ordered that the department of…
© FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, pictured, has been summoned by Parliament to explain the wisdom of keeping some foreign missions that are not bringing about meaningful investment into the country, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] According to the Senate Order paper for this month, opposition MDC Senator for Masvingo, Tichinani Mavetera, has written…
© A Gweru man has approached the High Court seeking to stop his eviction from a property he bought from the late national hero and businessman Aguy Clement Georgias. [GoogleAed] Fordson Ndlovu cited Jane Linda Georgias, Anthony Georgias, Diana Bernadette Georgias, Lynette Chandley (nee Georgias), Manana Esther Georgias and the Master of the High Court…
© ZIMBABWE Agriculture Society (ZAS) chief executive officer Anxious Masuka, pictured, says some government agriculture policies, programmes and subsidies are not working but are instead, worsening food insecurity in the country. [GoogleAd] Speaking at the Daily News breakfast forum on Thursday, Masuka said a study they conducted showed that 40 percent of food insecurity was…
© PRESIDENT Emerson Mnangagwa’s “new dispensation” has been characterised by a sharp decline in State and civil society organisations (CSOs) relations, with human rights organisations in particular coming under increased surveillance and scrutiny, a report has claimed. [GoogleAd] The report launched by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in partnership with Trocaire recently, assessed…
© ZIMBABWE will experience yet another bad rainy season after the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) predicted normal to below normal rainfall in the 2019/2020 season. [GoogleAd] According to the national forecaster, erratic rains are expected next month, but would improve in November and December. Another forecaster, the Southern Africa Seasonal Outlook Forum (Sasof), said the…
© THE recent measures that were put in place by the government to strengthen State finances and promote price stability have set the conditions for a sustained economic recovery and growth in the country, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says. Releasing his 2019 mid-term monetary policy statement yesterday, Mangudya added that this also…
© JUNIOR doctors have rejected an allowance incre- ment of $360 offered by government and insisted on salaries pegged to the prevailing interbank market rate. The Health Services Board (HSB) offered the doctors, who have been on strike for the past two weeks, the allowance in a bid to end the industrial action that is…
