COMMERCIAL farmers in Zimbabwe have bemoaned high costs of production, saying the high prices of inputs will force farmers into subsistence agriculture ahead of the 2022/23 farming season. In an interview with the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) president Shadreck Makombe said inputs prices continue to soar ahead of the…
AMID growing national consensus on the importance of peaceful elections next year, civil society organisation 4H Zimbabwe says all the young people across the political divide that it has worked with in its peace programmes are opposed to violence. Speaking on Thursday on fast-growing independent national commercial television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage,…
By Ketty Nyoni THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Local Government says the Harare City Council (HCC)’s 2023 devolution funds must be channelled towards water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Presenting a report in the National Assembly on Thursday, committee chairperson Miriam Chikukwa said since water was a right, “devolution funds should be channelled towards water and…
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has underscored the need for infrastructural development as part of a decentralisation agenda pursued by the Judicial Service Commission to achieve effective justice service delivery in all parts of the country. In his keynote address while officially commissioning the Lupane Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Malaba also bemoaned the absence of magistrates’ courts…
ZIMBABWE wants gold, diamond and platinum miners to pay half of their royalties to the government in the commodities themselves and the rest in cash, as the country seeks to build mineral reserves. The Treasury was concerned that the country does not have reserves of the minerals, which “serve as a source of trust in…
By Brighton Muronzereyi THE Veterinary Services of Zimbabwe (VSZ) says 16 781 people were bitten by dogs in the country since the start of the year, with four succumbing to rabies. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, VSZ director Josphat Nyika said they were intensifying vaccinations campaigns across the country. “To date 16 781 dog…
TODA Zimbabwe has revolutionised the ride-sharing business in Zimbabwe by empowering people during their everyday travel at competitive charges 24/7. TODA cars…
LONG-SUFFERING Zimbabweans will likely experience less severe blackouts from end of November, and hopefully no power cuts at all as from April next year. This was revealed yesterday by the permanent secretary in the ministry of Energy and Power Development, Gloria Magombo. Speaking to the Daily News, Magombo said power utility Zesa was scheduled to…
By Dionne Kanyowa LANDS and agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has been ordered by the High Court to pay back a US$83 000 debt he owes to a Chinese-owned company for a tobacco inputs loan he received. Tian Ze Tobacco (Pvt), who sued Masuka in his personal capacity, applied for a summary judgment at the High…
By Brighton Muronzereyi and Brandon Josphat CABINET yesterday agreed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa grants a general amnesty to prisoners in a move to decongest the country’s overcrowded jails. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said Mnangagwa would soon announce the modalities of the amnesty. “The nation is being informed…
