PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has dismissed the recent call by the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for South Africa to once again intervene in Zimbabwe’s decades-long political challenges. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Charamba also said the issue of political violence in the country was largely “traceable” to the opposition as a result of its regular…
Melisa Chatikobo THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Home Affairs has warned that the country’s police service faced collapse owing to low morale due to poor working conditions which are now driving corruption and indiscipline among officers. In a report presented in Parliament last week, committee chairperson Levi Mayihlome said Parliament’s recent enquiry into…
Andile Tshuma THE government has commenced a crop damage control assessment survey, amid fears that over 2.5 million hectares of crops in the 2021-2022 season are under severe threat from moisture stress. Officials from the ministry of Agriculture said all provinces were in the process of analysing data on the crop situation, following a prolonged…
Melisa Chatikobo ZIMBABWE’S ever decreasing number of formally employed people as compared to those in the informal sector is costing the country in tax remittances, a University of Zimbabwe senior lecturer has said. Speaking during a Zimstat webinar on the fourth quarterly labour force survey for 2021 yesterday, Honest Zhou implored policy makers to come…
Tamary Chikiwa ZVISHAVANE residents have expressed concern over the continued closure for six months of toilets at the local authority’s main long distance bus terminus owing to a malfunctioning sewer system, posing potential health challenges to the public. The toilets were closed in September last year after the local authority noted that raw sewage was…
HARARE is increasingly becoming a preferred destination for South African artistes, with popular KwaZulu-Natal duo, BlaQ Diamond set perform at the at Pabloz in Harare on March 18. The impending visit by the South African duo, which won the Artist of the Year and Best Male Artiste in Southern Africa’s 27th South African Music Awards…
THE government has called for an accelerated involvement of women in the social, economic and political discourse of the country in order to fulfil its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speaking during celebrations to mark the International Women’s Month (IWM) in Harare yesterday, Public Service Commission commissioner Tsitsi Choruma said women had brought to the fore…
EX-FINANCE minister Ignatius Chombo’s trial in a case he is accused of defrauding the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday failed to take off at the Harare Magistrates’ Court to allow the Constitutional Court to hear it first. Chombo was set to stand trial in the matter he is accused of accessing a $14 billion…
AS PART of their 40th anniversary celebrations, Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) has scrapped off registration fees to new members, a move…
HARARE provincial coordinator Tafadzwa Muguti says the government’s implementation of development programmes rests on the impending 2022 national population and housing census. The process of collecting, compiling and publishing demographic, economic and social data of the country is scheduled for April 21 to 30. This will be the first time Zimbabwe embarks on a population…
