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Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR WAR veterans opposed to the government’s planned law changes want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to personally respond to their court challenge. This comes after Attorney General Virginia Mabiza recently filed opposing papers to their February petition in the Constitutional Court, representing both the govern­ment and Mnangagwa. But the six ex-combatants — Reuben…

Tapiwa Chirume THE Environmen­tal Management Agency (Ema) is monitoring a poten­tial sodium cyanide disaster following a truck accident on the Harare–Bulawayo Highway. In a statement yesterday, Ema confirmed the accident occurred on April 8 at approxi­mately 4pm near the 20km peg in the Rera area along the Harare–Norton Road. The truck was transporting roughly 30…

CHIEF WRITER THE government is planning to recruit up to 36 000 more police officers as part of a broader expansion of the security sector to strengthen law enforcement capacity amid rising crime rates. Responding to a question from Shamva South MP Joseph Mapiki in the National Assembly on Wednes­day, the minister of Home Affairs,…

CHIEF WRITER AUTHORITIES have with immedi­ate effect halted the recently launched pilot programme to digitise the country’s land administration system amid complaints that property owners were restrict­ed to a closed list of conveyanc­ers. The issue was raised by Chi­tungwiza South legislator Max­well Mavhunga in the National Assembly on Wednesday after asking the minister of Justice,…

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) must sup­ply enough ZiG notes to the market, while also ensuring the stability of the domestic currency and prices of basic goods in the country. So said key stakeholders yesterday, who also told the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — that do­ing this was crucial as…

 AUTHORITIES are stepping up their efforts to protect children from accessing harmful online content. In this regard, Parliament has started to debate pro­posed legislation to restrict children under 16 years from accessing and using social media. Presenting the motion in the august House on Tuesday, Senator Prisca Mupfumira said lawmakers were acting in line with…

THE government says it is satisfied with preparations for this year’s Independence Day celebrations to be held in Maphisa, Matabeleland South Province, with key infrastruc­ture and logistics now in place. Speaking during a media tour in Maphisa yesterday, acting chief director for housing in the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, Mike Dzimati, said…