AT LEAST 3 000 prisoners are set to be released today after President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted them amnesty. Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) spokesperson, Peter Chaparanganda, confirmed that beneficiaries will be released starting this morning from all the jails across the country. The clemency, which was gazetted earlier this week, will benefit all…
SEVENTEEN women’s organisations have called for the lifting of the ban on by-elections by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, saying their continued suspension was an affront to democratic practice. This comes as Zec announced last month the resumption of voter registration and other related field work beginning this month although…
THE United States (US) injected US$341 million into Zimbabwe’s healthcare sector in 2020 alone to mitigate the treatment of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria cases last year alone. This comes as HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe declined to 12,9 percent from a high of 29 percent in 1999 with up to 339 multi-drug resistant TB patients…
THE National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) has begun preparations for this year’s edition of Culture Week which is set to run from May 15 to 22. The week-long commemorations are held annually in line with the 2001 Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity by Unesco that proclaimed May 21 of each year as the World…
LEADING hospitality group Cresta Hotels yesterday opened a 242-room hotel in the heart of Cape Town, South Africa, five minutes from Table Mountain and the famous V&A Waterfront. The 19-storey Cresta Grande — originally built as an office block in the late 1970s before being converted into a hotel in 2009 — has numerous conference…
THE dispute over the construction of a statue of Mbuya Charwe, the spirit medium of Mbuya Nehanda, has escalated after a woman claiming to be the surviving granddaughter of the First Chimurenga heroine approached the High Court challenging the erection of the effigy. In the court application, Susan Rosi Tirivangani cited Home Affairs minister…
THE ruling Zanu PF is no longer practising “old politics” and is pushing committedly for unity and tolerance among all Zimbabweans, party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, he also assured jittery opposition leaders and their supporters that the return of the national youth service training programme would not lead to…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is battling a serious staff shortage, with over 1 300 vacant posts, one of the reasons for poor service delivery. In December last year, the local authority wrote to the Local Government ministry requesting permission to hire 1 341 staff members over a four-year period, citing the impending human capital…
AUTHORITIES are escalating their bid to rehabilitate all damaged roads in the country after heavy rains pounded the region this past rain season. Speaking yesterday at the newly-constructed Karanda Bridge in Mt Darwin in Mashonaland Central, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the government was targeting to refurbish at least 10 000km of the road infrastructure. “In…
FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing corruption charges, is seeking to be tried separately from her co-accused, the ministry’s then permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka, saying she wants him to be her defence witness. Through her lawyer Admire Rubaya, Mupfumira yesterday told the court that the State had crippled her right to execute…
