THE World Food Programme (WFP) says the government must strengthen its social security nets to compliment humanitarian aid being offered to food insecure families. This comes at a time when the country’s food and economic crises are worsening with about eight million people facing starvation. It also comes after the WFP recently revealed that it…
LOCAL non-governmental organisations under the banner of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) have appealed to the public to reject the recently-gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill, saying it takes the country back to dictatorship. The much-criticised Amendment Bill proposes changes ranging from scrapping the contentious provision of presidential running mates to the selection of judges and prosecutors…
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says MDC councillors running several municipalities across the country are not to blame for poor service delivery as they do not have total control of the local authorities. Speaking at the Bulawayo Press Club recently, Chamisa said local authorities were at the mercy of the government. He said the councillors had…
THE International Organisation for Migration Zimbabwe (IOM) has called on the government to strengthen the country’s migration policies, amid the country’s worsening economic crisis and vulnerability to natural disasters fuelling migration. This emerged during a capacity building workshop held recently in the capital to guarantee and contribute towards the urgent establishment of a governance matrix…
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand. Whether he opted to pay in US currency or in the devalued local bond notes at the equivalent black market price, Mutseyekwa would have to save up for months to…
THE still grieving widow of the revered late founding father of the MDC Morgan Tsvangirai, Elizabeth Macheka, says she misses the former prime minister of the country “terribly”, the Daily News on Sunday reports. Tsvangirai, the much-loved former trade unionist turned politician died in a South African hospital on Valentine’s Day in 2018, after a…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that Zimbabwe would be importing maize from Uganda to avert a humanitarian crisis due to grain shortages and looming hunger. This comes as the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that it could reduce its assistance if it fails to get US$100 million immediately. Zimbabwe is battling massive shortages…
JUNIOR parliamentarians have petitioned the government to reduce examination fees after the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) hiked them by over 1 200 percent. Last week, Zimsec increased examination fees for Ordinary Level candidates from $15 to $190 and for Advanced level from $26 to $351 per subject. In the petition addressed to Primary and Secondary…
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says the country cannot go into 2023 harmonised elections without having resolved political glitches that arose during the disputed 2018 polls through a comprehensive national dialogue. Speaking at the Bulawayo Press Club last week, Chamisa said going into the next elections without comprehensive reforms would be meaningless. He said the nation…
VIOLENCE rocked Masvingo yesterday after angry MDC supporters fought running battles with police in the normally laid-back town — where the party’s deputy chairperson Job Sikhala was appearing in the High Court on treason charges, the Daily News reports. Judge Garainesu Mawadze subsequently acquitted Sikhala of the serious charges of subverting a constitutionally-elected government, after…
