A ZANU PF chairperson for Kaguvi District in Mkoba North, Midlands Province, has filed an application at the Harare High Court seeking to bar recalled Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) MP for Mkoba North Amos Chibaya from contesting in the February 3 by-elections. Chibaya and scores of other CCC MPs and councillors were recalled last…
OPPOSITION stalwart, Welshman Ncube, says he will one day be forced to take the public into his confidence about the chaos ravaging the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the highly regarded lawyer, academic and former Cabinet minister in the short-lived government of national unity (GNU) of 2009, said he…
MARRY Mubaiwa, former wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, is admitted at a Harare private hospital where she is receiving treatment after falling ill last week. She was supposed to appear before High Court judge, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda, on Monday for the commencement of her money laundering trial, but failed after her lawyer told the…
AUTHORITIES have given the green light to private players to import electricity from the Sadc region and sell it directly to local consumers. This comes as the country is grappling with prolonged power outages, while the relevant authorities have in recent months introduced a raft of measures to end the power crisis, but with limited…
By Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE government says it has only managed to put 70 000 hectares of land under irrigated maize for the 2023/24 season against a target of 90 000 hectares. This comes as the country is experiencing an El Nino phenomenon, which is associated with normal to below-normal rainfall, prompting the…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa THE government has urged members of the public to remain calm over the cholera outbreak, saying authorities are making strides on the disease. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Health minister Douglas Mombeshora said it was a matter of time before authorities contained the virulent bacterial disease. This came amid growing calls…
NATIONAL Foods Holdings Limited is set to commission a US$6 million pasta manufacturing plant in the capital with construction in its final stages, a senior company official has said. Pasta is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other…
AT least 15 of the country’s major dams are now full following the good rains received across the country in recent weeks…
ZANU PF secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, says the hardships being faced by poor Zimbabweans are a result of the “nefarious activities of a syndicate” that is working to sabotage both the country’s economy and the government. Among other things, Matuke charged in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, this “clique” was allegedly manipulating…
Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government, business and labour are meeting in Victoria Falls this week to deliberate on how they can improve their relations and work together to develop the country. The meeting, which starts today, is being held under the umbrella of the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (NTF), amid the country’s worsening economic situation. Speaking…
