By Brandon Josphat CLERK of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has bowed to all-round pressure and cancelled the controversial US$2m tender to procure computers at high prices. This comes after Treasury criticised the tender to buy 173 laptops and 79 desktops at US$9 264 and US$3 076 per gadget respectively from Mid-End Computers and Hardware and Blinart…
By Rutendo Ngara GRADE 7 examinations started smoothly yesterday despite teachers threatening to down tools until the government addresses their remuneration plight. A snap survey by the Daily News in Harare revealed that Grade 7 learners sat for their first English paper one examination and teachers were invigilating.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Progressive Teachers…
By Brandon Josphat ZIMBABWE’s relentless power cuts worsened at the weekend after under-pressure power utility Zesa announced intensified load shedding which spooked both ordinary consumers and businesses alike. Responding to the brutal power cuts, a concerned president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Kurai Matsheza, told the Daily News yesterday that the heavy load…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) have started a major one month-long training exercise, which involves the movement of soldiers to Mashonaland Central. ZDF director general for policy, public relations and international affairs, Brigadier General Augustine Chipwere, said yesterday that Zimbabweans should not be concerned by the “normal exercise”.He added that the scheduled…
By Hazel Marimbiza POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt on suspected robbers who allegedly kidnapped two children in Upper Rangemore and later dumped them in a bush after failing to get cash in their home. Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube told the Daily News yesterday that they were on the lookout for the robbers.“Police…
By Dionne Kanyowa THE HIGH Court has invalidated a directive issued by Local Government minister July Moyo which mandated all councils to include government officials in their committee and full council meetings, ostensibly to curb incompetence and increase transparency. This was after Chitungwiza Residents Trust took the government to court challenging another directive made by…
By Rutendo Ngara DISGRUNTLED teachers say they are not ready to invigilate the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Grade Seven examinations which commence today. Unions that spoke to the Daily News yesterday said they were unhappy about their conditions of service. Zimbabwe National Union of School Heads (ZINUSH) spokesperson Munyaradzi Majoni said the whole teaching…
GOVERNMENT, business and labour have provisionally agreed on a US$150 monthly minimum wage for every worker in the country as part of cushioning them from inflation. Meeting under the Tripartite Negotiating Forum on Thursday in Harare, the partners also agreed that besides the US$150, employers would also pay workers in local currency. The TNF is…
A BULLISH deputy Finance minister, Clemence Chiduwa, has projected further stability in the prices of goods in the country, while also predicting that it’s now a matter of time before once ubiquitous foreign exchange dealers go completely bust. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday at the weekend, Chiduwa said the government had found the…
YOUNG people in the country are less likely to participate in next year’s harmonised elections in which at least 67 percent of the people interviewed by Afrobarometer indicated that they will vote. The pan- African research institute Afrobarometer, represented in Zimbabwe by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), interviewed 1 200 adult citizens of Zimbabwe…
