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WITH Zimbabwe starting to experience relative economic stability following years of markets turmoil, President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called for national unity and discipline to improve the lot of citizens further. Speaking during the country’s 41st Independence celebrations at State House in Harare, Mnangagwa said all the country’s key economic sectors were showing good growth potential….

OVER 80 percent internally displaced persons’ children in cyclone prone areas in eastern Zimbabwe have been struggling to access education, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) has said. This comes after Cyclone Idai hit the provinces of Manicaland and Masvingo in 2019, bringing torrential rains and winds that caused flash flooding and subsequent destruction of…

OVER 11 000 people from Mt Darwin and Matobo will benefit from a US$1 million Japanese government investment towards food security and community building. This comes as over 5,5 million rural people have been projected to be food insecure at the peak of the hunger season following surveys by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee 2020…

Tamary Chikiwa  in BULAWAYO  THE Government has supplied 34 hybrid bulls to Gwanda district in Matabeleland South for cross breeding purposes to resuscitate beef and leather production, which is on the decline, a Cabinet minister has said. Agriculture minister Anxious  Masuka said the  bulls, that were distributed to chiefs in the district, are meant to…

EXPERTS say the ongoing amendments of the country’s Constitution will make sitting State presidents even more powerful — to the extent that incumbents will effectively be able to choose their successors. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the experts added that the planned changes would also empower presidents to handpick judges — in…

RULING Zanu PF legislators have claimed that they are being barred from opening nostro accounts because of their political allegiance. A nostro account is a bank current account denominated in foreign currency which allows one to transact in all major currencies. The legislators made the claims in the National Assembly this week where they pleaded…

AT LEAST 320 inmates from prisons across Harare Province were released back into society yesterday in an amnesty granted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Among those freed are 11 women.  The beneficiaries also include four men who had been sentenced to life in prison. Harare Metropolitan Province prisons commanding officer Alvon Kapare told those attending a…

THE Government is using last year’s November to December budget surplus of $20 billion to procure Covid-19 vaccines, deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa has said. Chiduwa told the National Assembly that the government had enough money to buy the required vaccines. “In November and December we made a surplus of $20 billion but this is…

THE government has blasted some church organisations for allegedly fomenting violence by rallying behind people guilty of disrupting peace in the country. This comes after the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) secretary general Kenneth Mtata took to social media to express his displeasure after MDC activist Makomborero Haruzivishe was slapped with 24 months’ imprisonment  for inciting…