AUTHORITIES expect to get on top of the current Zim dollar and pricing crisis soon, on the back of the various measures that they are implementing to mitigate the situation. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Institute for Strategic Thinking (Zist) policy discussion in Victoria Falls last week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) chief economist, Nicholas Masiyandima,…
AS HAD been correctly predicted by the Daily News, it was confirmed yesterday that many Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs, including prominent sitting MPs, were cast aside during the party’s candidate selection exercise ahead of the country’s harmonised elections. However, CCC leader Nelson Chamisa later told the media in Harare that those who lost…
A SENIOR government official on Friday challenged local farmers to increase productivity to reduce production costs and poverty levels in communities, and…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has called on the government and relevant stakeholders to increase children’s access to information and communication technologies in order to close the digital gap. In a statement yesterday, ZGC, to commemorate the Day of the African Child, which was running under the theme; The Rights of the Child in the…
PARLIAMENT has urged the government to develop policy initiatives that ensure energy security for industries. A report by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy following its recent visit to Sweden urged the government to grant investment start-up capital to the private sector in order to revive the country’s energy sector. “The ministry of Mines working…
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti said the country’s local currency will only stabilise if the authorities implement fundamental reforms which include amending some laws to make sure that the government lives within its means. This comes as the government has come under immense pressure to end the current economic turmoil which has seen the Zimbabwe…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has warned land barons across the city to desist from illegally allocating land across various suburbs, adding that the police were already investigating the unlawful invasions while demolitions were imminent. The council said the most affected suburbs by the land invasions include, Glen View, Retreat (Harare-Chitungwiza railway reservation), Budiriro, Mufakose,…
Diversified financial services group Old Mutual Zimbabwe hosted a financial literacy training for women at the Harare Agricultural Showgrounds as the group…
EXPERTS are adamant that Zimbabwe’s perennially unhealthy politics remains the single biggest impediment to national unity and the country’s economic development. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Institute for Strategic Thinking (Zist) policy discussion in Victoria Falls last week, the experts said not even the best economic policies, strategies and personnel would manage to extricate the country…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC), led by Nelson Chamisa, yesterday completed its parliamentary candidates selection process in Harare amid unconfirmed reports that some bigwigs had fallen by the wayside. The winning candidates, in the selection process, would represent the party in the August 23 general polls. The Daily News On Sunday visited some centres in…
