IN A dramatic turn of events, it has emerged that the newly-installed leadership of Zanu PF’s youth league may now be pushing for the expulsion of the wing’s suspended executives from the ruling party, the Daily News reports. This comes as details are emerging that the suspended youth league leaders apparently approached intelligence chiefs and…
FLOODS have killed one person and left more than 20 families stranded, after torrential rains pounded Matabeleland North this week, the Daily News reports. The floods came exactly a year after Cyclone Idai battered Zimbabwe and killed hundreds of people in Manicaland and parts of Masvingo. The floods which hit Matabeleland North followed a deluge…
GOVERNMENT has increased the price of the subsidised roller meal to $70 from $50, amid the scarcity of the maize meal in major retail shops. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced the price adjustment in a statement yesterday. “In December 2019, government introduced a roller meal subsidy pegged at $50 per 10kg bag in order to…
FORMER vice president Joice Mujuru turned down calls to return to the ruling party arguing she is comfortable watching from the terraces, the Daily News can report. This comes as the ruling party is keen to mend broken relations with its erstwhile comrades who left at the height of the ugly factional wars that ravaged…
ZIMTRADE, Zimbabwe’s export development and promotion agency, is urging exporters to register under bilateral and multi-lateral trade agreements with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) for easy access to markets. The country has bilateral trade agreements with South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana and Namibia as well as multi-lateral trade partnership including agreements with Sadc, Comesa and…
AN INFLUENTIAL American think-tank has laid into Harare over the economic hardships that Zimbabweans continue to experience — which it says have worsened under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured,’s government, the Daily News reports. In addition, the California-based research organisation — RAND Corporation — is also accusing Mnangagwa’s administration of having engaged in “patchwork” reforms thus…
CITY of Kings is happy at the nomination of gifted young Bulawayo artists in the 19th edition of the National Arts Merit Awards, announced by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe this week. The awards take place on 29 February 2020 in the capital, Harare. Under Theatre, the play ‘Imbokodo’ by Norbert Makoche, which was…
POWERFUL cartels have captured every sector of society causing untold suffering to ordinary citizens, Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi has said. Speaking at an anti-corruption capacity building workshop yesterday, Hodzi said so sophisticated are the cartels that they have captured Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, (Zacc) an institution founded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the sole mandate of fighting…
STUNG by their insipid performances in the African Champions League, FC Platinum are looking at adding two Congolese players and a striker from Nigeria to boost their roster. The reigning Zimbabwean champions, who have won the title in the last three years, are finding it difficult to make an impact on the continent. Pure…
SUSPENDED Zanu PF youth league kingpin, Godfrey Tsenengamu, warned opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, last week to beware of being used by hardliners in both the ruling party and his MDC as he fights to get into power, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zanu PF and MDC hawks are said to be frustrating…
