FORMER Zanu PF provincial commissar Jappy Jaboon and ex-Chiredzi West MP Darlington Chiwa and several others are set to rejoin the ruling…
PARLIAMENT has approached the High Court seeking an order directing six former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MPs who were recalled from the house in March to return motor vehicles that they had been given. In the court summons, the august House cited Settlement Chikwinya, Sichelesile Mahlangu, Regai Tsunga, Tendai Biti, Kucaca Ivumile Phulu and Willias…
A SOUTH Africa-based land developer, Terracotta Private Limited, has admitted that it will invest US$60 million to develop Egodini Mall in Bulawayo following an interrogation by the local authority. In 2016, Terracotta won a US$60 million tender for redevelopment of Basch Street Terminus, popularly known as Egodini, under a Build-Operate-Transfer agreement. However, there had been…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday commented briefly on the riots that have been rocking neighbouring South Africa, expressing the hope that there would be a quick solution to the deadly protests soon. Speaking to the media in Harare, ahead of a Zanu PF politburo meeting, Mnangagwa also reiterated that the conflict in Mozambique and rising…
THE government is set to beef up personnel conducting the Covid-19 vaccination programme as health institutions are being overwhelmed, following a surge in the number of citizens seeking to get inoculated. A survey by the Daily News yesterday showed that vaccination centres such as the Glen View Poly Clinic and Chitungwiza City Health Department were overwhelmed due to…
AN APPLICATION by a Zanu PF activist, who is seeking to have the Constitutional Court(Con-Court) overturn a High Court ruling on Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s continued stay in office, will go ahead after the Con-Court yesterday threw out an opposing application filed by Human Rights NGO Forum executive director, Musa Kika. This comes after Kika…
GOVERNMENT is urgently working towards renovating isolation centres in Matabeleland South province, amid a rising number in Covid-19 infections. Provincial Public Works…
SAKUNDA Holdings has donated $6 million cash and an assortment of goods to complement government’s efforts to reduce coronavirus (covid-19) infections and related deaths. This comes as Zimbabwe has witnessed a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths in the past month. The donations were received President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House this Friday morning. Sakunda…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night extended the current national coronavirus lockdown by a further two weeks. At the same time, Mnangagwa cautioned…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has awarded its employees a cost-of-living adjustment (Cola) in a bid to avert another strike following a January industrial action which paralysed service delivery in the city. The management committee effected the Cola after the workers’ union submitted a position paper on June 11, arguing that the employees’ salaries had…
