© BULAWAYO Progressive Residents Association (Bpra) says the past weeks have witnessed embarrassing and ugly incidences in the continuing governance decay and leadership deficit in the City of Kings. In its update report, Bpra said as a result the mood of the city is downbeat, residents are annoyed and very disappointed. The association’s coordinator Emmanuel…
EDITOR — What happened to agricultural mechanisation schemes, upfumi kuvadiki, land reform, ZimAsset, and community shareholding schemes? All these concepts were so good and in line to progress but everything went under the tunnel. People thought former president Robert Mugabe was the stumbling block on our progress but the current signs are good pointers that…
OPPOSITION and militant labour unions yesterday vowed to go ahead with protests despite government’s ominous warning at the weekend, setting up a potentially ugly confrontation with security forces whose intervention in demonstrations have previously left scores of people dead. This comes as political analysts warned both the opposition and labour unions that they needed to…
© THE special nine-member committee tasked with investigating the affairs of Beitbridge municipality has pointed to a town whose service delivery is in shambles. In a 14-paged report, titled Investigation into the Failures in Service Delivery for the Municipality of Beitbridge in possession of Southern News reveals how mismanagement, lack of accountability, poor workmanship and…
© THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo’s swiftness to prosecute those involved in corruption as exemplified by the recent arrest of Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira should be commended. From the more than 200 cases Matanda-Moyo said her commission is currently handling, this is just one of them, so we still have to…
© SANITARY Aid Zimbabwe Trust (SAZT) has urged government to consider subsidising sanitary wear as the mid-term fiscal policy review and supplementary budget is set to be presented tomorrow. [GoogleAd] In its letter addressed to the Finance minister Mthuli, Ncube SAZT executive director Theresa Nyava said menstrual hygiene products are basic necessities which are critical…
© GOVERNMENT has dropped Section 40 of the controversial Marriages Bill as it contradicts traditional and Christian values, a Cabinet minister said. Section 40 proposed to bind civil partnerships that exist without couples being legally married for as long as the people were above the age of 18 and also sought to give the right…
© THERE is no denying the fact that life has become unbearable for the majority of ordinary people who have had to watch, in anguish, the falling away of standards of living. No one would have predicted that a year on after holding historic elections, on July 30 last year — things would have come…
© ZANU PF is not bothered about planned commemorations of the August 1 last year killings which are set to be held by the Nelson Chamisa’s MDC. [GoogleAd] Almost a year after civilians, mostly innocent, were killed when the army fired live ammunition to quell protests that had turned violent there has been a…
© THE ruling Zanu PF party, which snatched a controversial win in last year’s elections, is pleading with Western countries that imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe to open their doors for talks. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo who has previously called on the MDC to the negotiating table,…
