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BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni, is fuming over the government’s Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2), saying it has left them as by-standers in their own area of jurisdiction as road and devolution funds are now being given to third parties. Mguni told Daily News at the weekend that the city fathers were now in a dilemma over…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken a victim-centred approach as part of his efforts to address the emotive Gukurahundi issue after meeting with traditional chiefs at Bulawayo State House yesterday. The 1980s Gukurahundi military operation in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, once described by the late former president Robert Mugabe as a “moment of madness”,  is believed…

POLITICAL analysts say the glaring failings of Zimbabwe’s deeply-divided opposition have been exposed once again by the recent landslide victory of Zambia’s plucky president-elect, Hakainde Hichilema. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts also said instead of celebrating Hichilema’s victory without adequate reflection, the country’s opposition needed to properly self-introspect and put…

AUTHORITIES say they are seriously considering  vaccinating children as part of a comprehensive plan to contain the deadly coronavirus disease. Speaking in the Senate last Thursday, leader of government business in the house, Ziyambi Ziyambi, also said the deaths of many children in the current third wave of Covid-19, were in part influencing the compulsory vaccination…

THE Senate thematic committee on Sustainable Development Goals says the country’s education sector is currently dogged by many challenges, which require the government’s immediate intervention. As schools across the country prepare to reopen for the second term after being closed in June, the committee said there was a shortage of learning material and infrastructure in…

A 42-YEAR-old Mberengwa man allegedly axed his brother to death following a fight recently in which the now deceased accused him of…

THE just-ended Sadc Heads of State and Government Summit held in Malawi has commended Zimbabwe’s efforts to improve the country’s economy and reiterated its demands for the United States (US) and its allies to lift sanctions imposed on Harare.  Following the conclusion of the summit yesterday, the regional bloc said it would continue to support…