CIVIL servants have vowed to go ahead with their planned strike to demand improved conditions of service following their failure to reach…
WITH the country now in election mode ahead of next year’s general elections, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has called for peaceful campaigns to ensure the polls’ outcomes are not disputed. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, CCC deputy national spokesperson Ostallos Siziba bemoaned the upsurge in cases of violence around the country, which…
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has moved to seek alternative means to source foreign currency to procure fuel for use on its expansive rail and road fleets. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, NRZ executive assistant to the general manager Joseph Temai said the parastatal was struggling to access foreign currency to buy fuel as most…
Austin Karonga at QUEENS SPORTS CLUB, BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE registered their biggest T20I victory by runs after securing a massive 111-run victory over Singapore in their opening match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier B here yesterday. Senior players’ Sikandar Raza and Sean Williams scored half centuries to propel the locals to a massive…
Ashley Moyo ENTERTAINMENT WRITER moyoa@dailynews.co.zw RISING hip-hop artiste Voltz JT, real name Nkosilathi Sibiya, has featured South African hip-hop star Emtee on his new single Pfurai Nekuno. The Shamwari Yangu singer is optimistic the latest collaboration, off his forthcoming debut album, will go a long way in solidifying the brand Voltz JT in the musical industry. “I believe…
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) spokesperson Obert Gutu last week made a compelling appeal to Zimbabweans for national healing. Appearing on independent commercial television, 3Ktv, Vantage programme, Gutu called for political tolerance as part of national healing and as the country gears for next year’s much-awaited harmonised elections. He said political parties would be obliged to…
THE government says the prevailing harsh economic environment in the country is behind the surge in drug and substance abuse by citizens. Appearing before the parliamentary thematic committee on HIV and Aids yesterday to give oral evidence on the state of drug and substance abuse situation in the country, chairperson of the inter-ministerial committee on…
Dionne Kanyowa STAFF WRITER kanyowad@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE couple was left to count its losses after their Glen Lorne, Harare, property they bought was forfeited by the State because the seller had acquired the stand through ill-gotten means. Justice Benjamin Chikowero ordered the forfeiture despite arguments by Issack and Desiree Manitho that they were innocent buyers…
Cloud Fusire SPORTS WRITER fusirec@dailynews.co.zw DYNAMOS is not pressing the panic button as yet and its executive has thrown its full weight behind embattled coach Tonderai Ndiraya, pictured, despite a run of poor results that have seen them trail log leader FC Platinum by eight points. The Glamour Boys are winless in their last three…
THE Ministry of Agriculture is embroiled in a US$87 million tender controversy after it contracted a little known and little-experienced company, Grindale Private Limited (Grindale), to construct Vungu Dam in the Midlands. This comes as the government has increasingly come under scrutiny over a number of major tenders that it has awarded in contested circumstances….
