NATIONAL Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) — a grouping of various stakeholders pushing for political and electoral reforms —says it has engaged Zanu PF and has sent an invite to them to attend their meeting later this month. The grouping says the proposed meeting is part of its bid to come up with an agreement on…
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to media reports that the country is facing mealie-meal shortages and that authorities have put measures to facilitate smooth importation of maize to mitigate the deficit. Maize is the country’s staple food. Addressing a press conference in Harare on Wednesday night, industry and commerce minister Sithembiso Nyoni said the shortage was…
Ex-Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is to be freed on parole from a South African jail, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva…
FORMER Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with treason and other offences in connection with an attempted coup. Last…
A CANDIDATE in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s recent presidential elections has legally challenged the victory of incumbent President Félix Tshisekedi….
KENYAN President William Ruto has come under a barrage of criticism following his threat to disobey court orders from “corrupt judges”. Ruto…
SOUTH African private sector activity shrank in December as companies signalled a greater impact on business amid the gridlock problems afflicting the…
AUTHORITIES say they have “warned and cautioned” 23 public schools over what it deemed were unilateral fees increases ahead of schools opening next Tuesday. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Education minister Torerai Moyo said the government would not allow school authorities to wantonly increase fees without the approval of his ministry or engage in…
By Ketty Nyoni THE growing local use of the much-coveted US dollar is a major factor behind the multi-faceted economic challenges facing the country, prominent economist Eddie Cross says. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s widely-followed news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Cross also warned that if nothing was done by authorities…
RESCUE teams were by last night still to make a breakthrough in their mission to extricate 11 miners who were trapped at…
