AUTHORITIES have banned all government workers from taking part in the upcoming national elections. In this regard, they have underlined that those who avail themselves as candidates in the polls without having left the civil service will be deemed to have resigned from the government. In a circular dated May 18, Public Service Commission (PSC)…

OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has withdrawn his urgent application in the High Court to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa from proclaiming the date for this year’s crunch elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mwonzora’s lawyer, Trust Semwayo, of Trust Law Chambers, said the decision to withdraw the application followed the realisation that the proclamation of…

PREPARATIONS for this year’s crunch national elections are now in full swing. In this light, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has announced the opening of the voters’ roll for inspection. The inspection will commence this coming Saturday and end next week on Wednesday. Zec said yesterday that there would be 11 289 inspection centres in…

ZANU PF and opposition legislators have locked horns in Parliament over calls for diaspora vote during the ongoing debate on the Electoral Amendment Bill ahead of harmonised elections to be held in August. This comes as the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and MDC parties are pushing the government to allow the diaspora community to…

THE government is asking mining companies to work with it to install weighbridges all over the country in an effort to avoid damaging roads. The government is in the process of choosing locations for the weighbridges across the nation, according to the minister of Transport Felix Mhona, who spoke to the National Assembly on Wednesday….

THE government says it is doing all it can to stabilise the economy and to protect consumers from those allegedly working to sabotage the country. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa reiterated that authorities viewed the continuing volatility of the Zim dollar and the current prices spiral as the work of…

BUSINESS wants comprehensive dialogue with the government to help fi nd lasting solutions to the country’s worsening economic challenges. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s widely-followed news and current affairs programme, Vantage, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Kurai Matsheza, said both companies and ordinary consumers were hurting from…

LEGISLATORS have questioned why the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda stopped a parliamentary committee inquiry into illicit gold inflows in the country. This comes as Mudenda has blocked the probe by the public accounts committee (Pac) over the illicit flows of gold in the country and had summoned the Reserve of Bank of…