BY CLOUD FUSIRE CASTLE Lager Premiership clubs are taking full advantage of the financial crisis currently bedevilling ambitious Bulawayo Chiefs by pouncing on some of their best players ahead of the 2023 season. The looming player exodus follows several player strikes in protest over unpaid salaries and allowances towards the end of last season in…
MUSIC star Winky D’s recently released song, ‘Ibotso,’ which hits out at people who deprive others by abusing positions of priviledge (vanodya zvavapfupi nekureba), is at the centre of a raging storm. ‘Ibotso,’ featuring Holy Ten, is off Winky D’s latest album ‘Eureka,’ on which he collaborated with several artists such as Shingai, Tocky Vibes,…
INVESTING in public education should be every government’s responsibility. Public education should be affordable. In one of our main stories in today’s edition, parents lament the cost of uniforms, books, and fees. They are worried stiff that public education has become dire. To complicate the situation, some of the public schools are now demanding fees…
LABOUR has pleaded with the government to urgently resolve the crippling power cuts to avoid retrenchments of employees across different sectors due to low production. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) secretary-general Japhet Moyo said the current load-shedding could lead to job cuts due to below-capacity production…
BLESSINGS MASHAYA & BRANDON JOSPHAT THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has added its voice to calls by some opposition parties to have this year’s harmonised elections postponed so that much-needed national dialogue can take place first. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, ZCC president Ignatius Makumbe said such envisaged inclusive engagement still…
BY KETTY NYONI & BRANDON JOSPHAT STRESSED parents say they are struggling to buy required uniforms and stationery for their children who are returning to school for the first term as from tomorrow due to rising prices and exorbitant fees. In snap surveys in Harare and Bulawayo by Daily News On Sunday teams yesterday, parents…
A FAMILY of six last December required more than $355 000 a month for basic commodities, an increase, according to the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) of 14 percent from November and attributed to impulse buying during the festive season. “The cost of living as measured by CCZ’s low income urban earner monthly basket for…
BY SYMPATHY SIBANDA GETTING into a New Year takes a little getting used to, how are we doing with those New Year…
ZIMBABWE is set to hold its harmonised elections this year. This election could see the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) extend its rule to 48 years. Historically, the African Union and Southern African Development Community (Sadc) continue to take up the regional burden of disputed Zimbabwean elections. Consequent political instability and violence in…
POLICE yesterday arrested a 54-year-old church caretaker after he was found growing more than 700 dagga plants at Baptist Pinnacle Church premises in Westlea, Harare. Police national spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that they have since arrested one Lawrence Mtizwa, a caretaker at the church, on suspicions…
