BY NYASHA KUNYISWA THE government has called on communities to play a critical role in the protection of wetlands, saying they are valuable for flood protection and water quality maintenance as well as providing habitats for plants and animals. Addressing a press conference in Harare to mark the World Wetlands Day Environment minister Mangaliso Ndlovu…
ZIMBABWE’S Total Consumption Poverty Line (TCPL) rose by 41,9 percent this month from $140 252 to $198 981 per person as a result of basic goods price increases, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has said. Individuals living on less than this amount are deemed “extremely poor”. The increases come with falling confidence in the…
IT WAS inevitable that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa’s political career would hit the skids again in the two-year-old party, as he is allegedly a “divisive character”. So say opposition stalwarts, Elias Mudzuri and Morgen Komichi, who worked with Chamisa — a self-confident pastor, lawyer and politician who answers to the…
AS THE country prepares to hold public hearings on Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s, authorities say those who wish to make submissions to the chiefs leading the process are encouraged to do so in person. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the deputy president of the Council of Chiefs, Fortune Charumbira, said they would limit…
PARLIAMENT has demanded that the ministry of Mines should provide the necessary details of the 40 mining companies granted exclusive prospective orders (EPOs) for the lawmakers to understand how transparent the mines’ operations are. An EPO gives exclusive rights to prospect for specified minerals in any identified location and are issued for three years. The…
FORMER legislator Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole will know their fate today as Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti is expected to hand down their sentence this afternoon. Sikhala and Sithole were convicted of incitement of public violence last week after the magistrate found them guilty of encouraging the uproar in Nyatsime in 2022…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Mount Pleasant MP Fadzai Mahere has resigned from the National Assembly in solidarity with her former leader Nelson Chamisa who also dumped the opposition party last week. In a letter dated January 29, and addressed to Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, Mahere said she was resigning…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government is ramping up its efforts to end the country’s debilitating power cuts as soon as possible, and to connect more people to the national grid. This has seen Energy minister Edgar Moyo and senior executives from power utility Zesa embarking on an ambitious tour of China where they…
By Ketty Nyoni LATEST figures released by the Health ministry show that a total of 473 people have died and over 23 000 have been infected by cholera in the country since February last year when the first case was recorded. This comes as the government at the weekend received nearly 900 000 oral cholera…
AT LEAST 15 000 residents, mostly civil servants, across the country are set to receive title deeds for homes under the presidential title deeds programme. In a notice yesterday, the Housing and Social Amenities ministry said the beneficiaries should submit required documents to the ministry before February 29 this year.“The presidential title deeds programme which…
