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THE pending visit to the United Kingdom (UK) by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for a global climate conference presents Harare with a golden opportunity to put on track its faltering re-engagement efforts with Western countries, analysts have said. In addition, the analysts told the Daily News yesterday that Mnangagwa’s invitation to attend the United Nations’ Climate Change (COP26)…

TEACHERS say the government should call for an all-stakeholders urgent indaba to deliberate on the way forward towards the reopening of learning institutions in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter dated August 6 to Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema, Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said there was…

TWO Zanu PF parliamentarians — Rejoice Timire and Zenzo Sibanda — have succumbed to Covid-19-related illnesses. Timire, 62, was the representative for people with disabilities in the Senate. She died at Mbuya Dorcas Hospital in Harare where she had been admitted on Wednesday, while Sibanda, the Tsholotsho South legislator, passed away at United Bulawayo Hospitals….

DRIVERS of buses owned by private players registered under the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco), who downed their tools before staging a demonstration at the company’s Kelvin depot in Bulawayo, have returned to work, after the firm paid part of their salaries. On Wednesday, passengers in and around the city were left stranded after the…

GOVERNMENT yesterday launched the Zimbabwe Defence Exhibition Park and Memorial Wall at the Museum of African Liberation currently being constructed in Warren Park, Harare. Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, who officially launched the initial roll-out phase of the project, said the museum was set to capture the country’s journey to independence following a protracted war of…

THE mindless bloodletting that has been ravaging the country’s at-sea main opposition is continuing unabated — all this despite the fact that Zimbabwe’s next national elections are now less than two years away. In the latest senseless brawling, MDC Alliance vice president Welshman Ncube’s faction has cut loose four of its senior members on account…

IN A development which could have a significant bearing on Zimbabwe’s re-engagement efforts with Western powers, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been invited to attend this year’s Climate Change Conference that is set for Britain at the end of October. Mnangagwa’s pending visit to the United Kingdom will be the first by a sitting Zimbabwean leader…

GOVERNMENT has given churches the green light to congregate only for people who have been fully vaccinated, as the country has witnessed a decrease in Covid-19 cases in the past few days. Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, told a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday that the churches should, however, follow the Covid-19 regulations. “Cabinet wishes to…

THE Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) has demanded that the police arrest a man who impregnated a 14-year-old girl, Memory Machaya, who died recently while giving birth at the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church shrine. This comes after the police issued a statement last week saying it was investigating the case following outrage expressed by…