BLESSINGS MASHAYA AND MELISA CHATIKOBO AS THE 2023 national elections loom closer, more and more people are warning Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, about the dangers of approaching those crunch polls without building a strong foundation for his fledgling party. Renowned professor of World Politics at the University of London’s School of…
BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI GOVERNMENT is sweating over schools, which are recording zero percent pass rate and is working on strategies to reverse the trend, Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Edgar Moyo has said. Speaking in the Senate last week, Moyo said the situation needed to be addressed as a matter of urgency. “We have observed…
MELISA CHATIKOBO THE ministry of Agriculture and its partners will distribute 25 grain threshers across five districts in Masvingo for harvest to be easier and faster for farmers. This comes as Zimbabwe needs about 40 000 units of tractors and combine harvesters against the 10 000 units currently available. Speaking at the handover ceremony of…
MELISA CHATIKOBO GOVERNMENT says it is installing electricity at chiefs homesteads free of charge Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, Energy minister Soda Zhemu said chiefs would, however, pay tariffs. “When it comes to chiefs, electricity installation at their homesteads is for free, but electricity that they start using at their homesteads is paid for….
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will spearhead the revival of a culture of cycling to and from work by residents, as a cost cutting measure, at a time transport costs have been going up. The concept, which has since been approved by the council, is set to be launched before the end of the year. “Historically,…
THE government’s latest economic measures continue to come under heavy scrutiny, with legislators imploring authorities this week to intervene again urgently to cushion the poor from their growing hardships. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, MDCs senators Morgen Komichi and Khaliphani Phugeni said impoverished Zimbabweans were hurting badly, which obliged the government to come up…
CHAIRPERSON of the Health parliamentary portfolio committee Ruth Labode is pleading with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to pardon people who were convicted of wilful transmission of HIV. This comes after the recent promulgation of the Marriage Act that decriminalised wilful transmission of the virus. Speaking during a National Aids Council (Nac) workshop for media news editors…
A UNITED Kingdom-based woman lost a Harare house to her son who claimed the mother had donated it to him. Rose Tiyatiya recently approached the High Court seeking to have title deeds of a Kambuzuma house transferred from her son Lee Takawira to her, but the court rejected the plea. Justice Joseph Chilimbe was not…
Dionne Kanyowa kanyowad@dailynews.co.zw THE High Court has acquitted a Mhangura artisanal miner of murder after ruling a statement by the deceased shortly before his death claiming the accused had stabbed him was not enough evidence to convict. Justice Munamato Mutevedzi set free Last Mbizi, 25, after adjudging the State had failed to prove the murder…
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