Hazel Marimbiza in BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has urged residents to fully participate in the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) budget consultations as it is an opportunity to get clarity on payment of rates in foreign currency. This comes after residents say Bulawayo was increasingly becoming one of the most expensive cities citing…
Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE move by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to peg the nomination fees in foreign currency encourages foreign sponsorship and inflames external financial influence to the country’s democracy, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) says. This comes amid an outcry from would-be candidates in the polls who have described the US$20…
SIKANDAR Raza followed up his twin match-winning centuries against Bangladesh with one more against India though in a losing cause in the…
SPORTS minister Kirsty Coventry yesterday made stunning revelations that she has the support of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in her bid to restore normalcy in the country’s football saying, however, this will take a while. This comes as Zimbabwe was suspended by Fifa in February this year owing to “undue interference by a third party”. As…
A former police officer has been jailed for an effective 14 months after he was convicted of trying to facilitate the smuggling of over US$10 000 by his Chitungwiza church leader, Madzibaba Simba by using his airport pass to evade checkpoints. Pedzisai Hali was convicted of criminal abuse of duty by regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna…
Beaven DhliwayoSTAFF WRITERdhliwayob@dailynews.co.zwZIMBABWE is set to host an international pageant in the form of Mister and Miss Glamour Universe next year. One of the event organisers, Robert Chipazaure, said the inaugural pageant, an offshoot of Mister and Miss Glamour Zim- babwe, will be heldin March in the resort city of Victoria Falls.“This forthcoming pageant is…
FORMER minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora launched the implementation of the new curriculum in a presentation entitled “Ground Zero: Getting Traction’’, on Saturday January 21, 2017 in Kadoma. The new curriculum came into effect in January 2017.Dokora was of a firm conviction that the new education syllabus is meant to modernise the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling a review of the proposed high fees that presidential and legislative hopefuls are set to be charged when they take part in next year’s national elections. This comes amid an outcry from aspirant candidates who have described the US$20 000 and the US$1 000 that presidential hopefuls and parliamentary contestants…
A VIDEO of Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba lashing out at a Zimbabwean patient at a provincial government hospital has sparked…
VETERAN Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has lodged a petition at the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election results, which saw his rival Deputy President William Ruto declared president-elect. Scores of his supporters lined the streets of Kenya raising flags and chanting Odinga’s name. Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua, a seasoned lawmaker and…
