THE MDC Alliance is pressing ahead with plans to announce a new party and name — a move insiders say could have serious political ramifications for some of the coalition’s bigwigs. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the insiders confirmed that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa was preparing to switch the pact’s name to Citizens’…
THE State is today expected to respond to an application by former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo who is challenging allegations that he grabbed land, created residential stands and fleeced home seekers in the process. Chombo last month made an application challenging his placement on remand arguing there is no nexus between him and the alleged…
THE cash-strapped Hwange Local Board (HLB) has turned to its councillors to help entice residents to pay up their outstanding bills. This comes after HLB in March was forced to enlist the services of debt collectors to recover its dues after the bill surprisingly shot to over $20 million in a space of two months. …
A FEMALE employee at a Liquor Supplies outlet located at Ascot Shopping Centre was shot dead after robbers stormed the store on Saturday evening. The robbers got away with an undisclosed amount of money during the raid in which they also took personal belongings and assaulted those inside the store during the incident. Bulawayo…
FOR 17 years now, the Homelink group’s business has revolved around contributing positively to Zimbabwe’s economic development. Founded with a mandate of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday implored Zimbabweans to have a spirit of unity and peaceful coexistence in order to foster national economic development to attain the country’s vision 2030. Speaking during the memorial service for the late national hero, Perrance Shiri held at Chikerema village in Chikomba Central constituency, Mnangagwa said the former Agriculture minister, had…
P RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF government should ensure the 2023 elections are credible if Zimbabwe is to succeed in its…
PARLIAMENT has summoned Presidential Affairs minister Joram Gumbo, pictured, to appear before the august House to explain to legislators how the government’s economic policies are being implemented. At the start of this year, Treasury began implementing the five-year National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) economic blueprint. This was after the government’s Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) ran…
ZIMBABWE Civil Society Organisations Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (ZCSOSUNA) has partnered with the government in an initiative meant to promote the consumption of natural foods among adolescent learners. The youth-led advocacy initiative, currently taking place in six districts in the country with the support of Unicef, seeks to promote the consumption of fruits and vegetables…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube expects the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans to improve further in the coming months, on the back of the country’s stabilising economy and cost of living. Writing in his 2020 National Budget Review this week, Ncube noted that as a result of the measures that the government had taken over the past…
