PARLIAMENT has pleaded with Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to allow people with temporary national identification cards to use them to apply for e-passports while their plastic discs are being processed. Speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, Zanu PF MP for Chakari constituency Andrew Nkani said people in need of passports were being turned…
EXPERTS are adamant that Zimbabwe’s perennially unhealthy politics remains the single biggest impediment to national unity and the country’s economic development. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Institute for Strategic Thinking (Zist) policy discussion in Victoria Falls last week, the experts said not even the best economic policies, strategies and personnel would manage to extricate the country…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC), led by Nelson Chamisa, yesterday completed its parliamentary candidates selection process in Harare amid unconfirmed reports that some bigwigs had fallen by the wayside. The winning candidates, in the selection process, would represent the party in the August 23 general polls. The Daily News On Sunday visited some centres in…
FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru has been granted a brief relief after the Sheriff of the High Court recently stayed the execution of an auction that would have resulted in the sale of her farming equipment in Beatrice over a US$226 000 debt. The auction comes after the Supreme Court, in March, ordered Mujuru and…
BY RUTENDO NGARA PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) offices should be decentralised to ensure that youth are able to have access and easily raise their concerns at the nearest offices. The ZYC is the link between the government, through the Youth ministry and the youth, and one of its mandates is…
MUNYARADZI Mushawatu, an electrician in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, was both ecstatic and jittery after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced recently that national elections would be…
CLOUD FUSIRESports Writer FORMER bodybuilder Blessing Samaringa who passed away on Thursday after being involved in a car accident will be buried today at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare. Samaringa family spokesperson, Brighton Gotora, confirmed the funeral arrangements yesterday. “It’s sad for us and we are still to come to terms with his passing….
BY LAWRENCE PAGANGADeputy News Editor HE HAD been freed from jail on Friday, but the following Monday found him back in police custody awaiting trial. Brian James, who had just benefited from the presidential amnesty, was already in police custody and was being held on allegations of breaking into a house in the upmarket Borrowdale…
SIX artists will represent Zimbabwe at the 60th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Minister of Arts Kirsty Coventry said the artists — Gillian Rosselli, Sekai Machache, Victor Nyakauru, Moffat Takadiwa, Kombo Chapfika and Troy Makaza — will not fly to Italy next year for arts business alone but also as ambassadors…
Ashley MoyoENTERTAINMENT WRITER AWARD-WINNING hip-hop artiste Voltz JT, real name Nkosilathi Sibiya, is happy with the response of his duet with dancehall chanter Nutty O, Makuruwani, on the market. The track was released two weeks ago but it has already made some waves on social media platforms. “This is my first collaboration with Nutty O,…
