THE government is mulling the compulsory registration of all political par ties, where they will need to submit their constitutions and structures, among other things, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Ziyambi added that such registration of political parties was the best way to go for the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the ruling party has an opportunity to finish off the opposition during the December by-elections. In his closing remarks during the Zanu PF national conference in Gweru yesterday, Mnangagwa said the ruling par ty must campaign vigorously for it to snatch more seats from the opposition. “I further call upon…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) commissioned 117 ser viced housing stands in the Pumula suburb on Friday as part of its presale scheme to clear the city’s housing backlog. This comes as several thousands of Bulawayo residents have been on the housing waiting list for decades now with the local authority struggling to cope with…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT & BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI THE extension of the multi-currency system by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to 2030 brings necessary policy certainty and will enhance the country’s economic development, business says. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Kurai Matsheza, was among the economic experts…
By Rutendo NgaraStaff Writer DESPITE the expected El Nino conditions in the 2023/24 cropping season, the Famine Early Warning System (Fewsnet) says Zimbabwe is part of Southern African countries that are expected to be grain self-sufficient. The El Nino phenomenon is expected to be characterised by below normal to normal rain falls in most Sadc…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday extended the use of the multi-currency to 2030. The multi-currency was expected to end in 2025. According to the Statutory Instrument (SI) 218 of 2023 published in the Government Gazette yesterday, Mnangagwa said the multi-currency system had been extended to December 31, 2030. “His Excellency the President, in terms of section…
MARRY Mubaiwa, who is on trial facing charges of attempting to kill her former husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has engaged a new lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, after her previous lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, renounced agency on Thursday. Mubaiwa appeared before Ha rare Magistrate Feresi Chakany uka yesterday, where she told the court that she had secured…
By Brandon Josphat VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, says there is no room for a government of national unity (GNU) as Zanu PF won the August elections resoundingly. Speaking during the ongoing Zanu PF national people’s conference in Gweru, Chiwenga said those who were calling for a GNU were day dreaming as the ruling party…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says it owes farmers an estimated US$25 million and $20 billion in local currency from last season’s grain deliveries. Speaking at an Agriculture ministry 2024 pre-budget portfolio committee meeting this week, the GMB finance director, Clemence Guta, admitted that the failure to pay farmers on time adversely…
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe has underlined its commitment to environmental transparency by disclosing its environmental impact through CDP, a global non-profit that runs the world’s leading environmental disclosure platform. Econet, the leading telecommunications and technology company in the country, said it submitted its inaugural CDP environmental sustainability record this year and completed CDP’s climate change, forests…
