POLITICAL analysts have joined the growing clamour in the country for this year’s fast approaching harmonised elections to be postponed, to allow Zimbabwe to heal and needed national dialogue to take place first. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said holding the polls without instituting key electoral reforms and dealing with…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) Priscilla Chigumba says the electoral body has set a timeframe to conduct the country’s watershed harmonised elections between July 26 and August 24 this year. She said this on Friday at State House in Harare on Friday, after receiving Parliament’s recommendations on the preliminary…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT SOME former University of Zimbabwe students allege they have been left in a quandary as they are failing to secure employment because the institution is failing to issue them with their certificates and transcripts after graduation. The affected students paid all their tuition fees in full and graduated last year.Speaking to the…
By Rutendo Ngara THE late mbira music superstar, Stella Chiweshe, has been granted a State-assisted funeral by authorities. This comes after many people within the country’s arts industry unsuccessfully campaigned to have the late ‘Queen of Mbira’ buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, in recognition of her stellar music career. As a result,…
PARLIAMENT has demanded answers from the government why it continued turning a blind-eye to the environmental damage at the Boterekwa escarpment in Shurugwi, the Midlands province caused by illegal gold miners. The parliamentary portfolio committees on Environment and Mines recently visited the escarpment on a fact-finding mission, and were shocked after they were informed by…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE World Health organisation (WHO) says it is partnering with government and other mental health stakeholders in setting up community mental healthcare centres around the country to decongest the load at major referral hospitals. This comes as mental healthcare cases continue to increase in the country with Parirenyatwa hospital recording at least…
By Rutendo Ngara AUTHORITIES say the 2022/23 national crop situation is in a fair condition despite challenges of dry spells, fall armyworm outbreaks and leaching in some parts of the country. Zimbabwe has been receiving favourable rains since last month raising hopes that the country was poised for a bumper harvest this year. In speaking…
Ashley Moyo moyoa@dailynews.co.zw DECORATED Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo has postponed the release of his studio album titled Ndikutambire. Mukanya, as Mapfumo is popularly known, said the album could not be released yesterday as scheduled because some songs recorded in South Africa were sent to him late. “We were supposed to drop the album yesterday (Friday) but we made…
THE Oliver Mtukudzi Memorial Half Marathon, an annual event held in honour of the late music superstar, will take place on Sunday at Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton. The internationally-acclaimed musician, who was the Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa Region, succumbed to diabetes-related complications on January 23, 2019 and was declared national hero. Oliver Mtukudzi Estate…
TWENTY-FIVE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, who were arrested last week, will spend the weekend in remand prison after a Harare magistrate’s court adjourned the cross-examination of the investigating officer to Monday. The 25 members have clocked a week in State custody, having been in detention since their arrest last Saturday at the house…
