RUMBIDZAI NGWENYA THE government has, through its US$75 million worth Kuvimba Mining House investment, started disbursing dividends to pensioners as compensation for the loss they incurred following the country’s 2019 monetary reforms. The reforms discarded the fixed 1:1 exchange rate peg between the US$ and the local currency and liberalised the market — a move…
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa, through her Angel of Hope Foundation, donated agricultural inputs to commercial sex workers in Zvishavane on Thursday, in a bid to help them start income-generating projects. Zvishavane district Aids coordinator Dennis Jaravani said such initiatives by the first lady were important in reducing HIV/Aids prevalence in the country. “Once they (commercial…
A CLIMATE change expert has implored the government to consider investing more in climate change adaptation measures as the country was more…
HEALTH experts say authorities can now fully open the economy and allow face-to-face schooling, as the country is past the worst of…
ZANU PF’s primary polls for the March 26 by-elections got off to a poor start yesterday after they were hit by serious logistical problems which led to delays in voting. Such was the chaos that voting was yet to begin by mid-day in most provinces, contributing to a low voter turn-out in many areas visited…
THE chaos that has been long ravaging the opposition reached new depths yesterday after suspended MDC deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, announced a breakaway party. The announcement comes hard on the heels of her surprising suspension by opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora over “taking party issues to court”. Yesterday’s announcement by Khupe came amid continuing warnings by…
B ULAWAYO City Council (BCC) health director Edwin Sibanda has accused Zimbabwean citizens based in South Africa of largely contributing to the…
THE High Court has dismissed, with costs, an application by a legal practitioner challenging the constitutionality of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 which prohibited businesses from charging above the official foreign currency exchange rate. Obey Shava, a human rights lawyer, sought to have SI 127/21 declared unconstitutional in its entirety and be set aside. In…
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) has embarked on a nationwide stakeholder engagement tour to discuss the electricity supply situation in the country in a bid to address power supply reliability challenges. This comes as the country has been experiencing power reliability challenges characterised by frequent faults, slow reaction to faults, power outages, long waiting periods for connection, huge…
WITH factionalism continuing to be a major issue in Zanu PF, the ruling party warned yesterday that it would sack all bigwigs caught trying to influence its primaries today, which will choose candidates for the March 26 by-elections. Speaking to the Daily News, Zanu PF secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, said the party was aware of…
