© ITS 16:00hrs and Tsitsi Chamunorwa (not her real name) has to ensure firewood is in place in preparation for supper, before she rushes to the borehole to fetch water. [GoogleAd] One could easily be misled to believe Chamunorwa is in rural Uzumba in Murewa, yet she lives in Harare, Zimbabwe’s largest capital city. For…
© ZIMBABWE will hold a memorial tomorrow for the late vice president Joshua Nkomo, who died of prostate cancer in 1999, aged 82. [GoogleAd] The late “Father Zimbabwe”, will be remembered as the man who was so instrumental in bringing about majority rule in the country although he did not become president of the nation. Organisers…
© ELVIS Tembo (not his real name) is supposedly a middle income earner who works in Harare’s central business district as an accountant. [GoogleAd] He has been leasing a house in the upmarket Bluffhill area since he started working about two decades ago. Tembo, who was in his early 20s when he started working after…
© MDC vice president Tendai Biti has called for political dialogue that would produce a national transitional authority (NTA) to fix Zimbabwe’s broken economy. [GoogleAd] The Harare East legislator said the current administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed, submitting what is now required is a NTA to avert an implosion. “We need a national…
© THE wheels of justice in Zimbabwe are turning too slowly so much that a plethora of cases have been pending before various courts for decades. [GoogleAd] This emerged during public interviews for appointment of two Supreme Court judges. Justices Felicia Chatukuta, Samuel Kudya, Elfas Chitakunye, Charles Hungwe and Nicholas Mathonsi participated in the interviews,…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the accident that claimed 16 people when a commuter omnibus and a haulage truck collided head-on at Wengezi Bridge in Featherstone on Friday a state of national disaster. [GoogleAd] In a statement, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said government would now assist in providing funds…
© THE Daily News on Sunday senior writer Mugove Tafirenyika speaks to Obey Sithole, the newly-elected MDC Youth Assembly president on his new role and the way forward for the country’s biggest opposition. [GoogleAd] Q: You lead the youth in the country’s biggest opposition. What is your vision for the party and country and how…
© A presidential decree banning farmers from selling maize to anyone other than the state Grain Market Board in a desperate government bid to contain hikes in the price of the staple is illegal, former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said. [GoogleAd] The new Statutory Instrument (SI) 145 of 2019 gazetted on Friday states that…
© NETONE, Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile network service provider, has partnered with Elevate Trust to capacitate 75 software developers in the international Google Certification Programme. [GoogeAd] The partnership was launched in Bulawayo and marks another feat for NetOne, as a development oriented company with impetus on empowering the youth. Google a subsidiary of the Alphabet…
© REGIONAL civil society organisations have piled pressure on the Zimbabwean government to ratify the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, in a bid to end the increased arrests and harassment of human rights defenders. [GoogleAd] In a statement issued on Wednesday to mark the Convention’s 32nd anniversary, over…
