VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has challenged urban residents to vote out “incompetent” opposition led councils in the upcoming general elections as they had failed to improve on service delivery. Most urban councils have been led by the opposition for over 20 years now with Zanu PF leading the majority in rural councils. However, speaking in…
MINING giant Zimplats has injected US$1 million for the refurbishment of the Mubaira Hospital in Mhondoro, Mashonaland West Province, as part of the firm’s corporate social responsibility obligations. Speaking during the commissioning of the hospital on Thursday, Zimplats chief executive officer Alex Mhembere said his company had injected over US$200 million into its corporate social…
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will announce the dates for this year’s harmonised elections before the end of next month. Speaking at the rehabilitation of the Zimbabwe Platinum Mines-sponsored Mhondoro-Mubaira hospital project yesterday, Mnangagwa also implored citizens not to fight over the polls. “Tatarisana nesarudzo … mwedzi unouya uyo ndichakuudzai (We are approaching the elections and I…
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) will embark on a mop up exercise to allow candidates who failed to meet the April 14 registration deadline to pay their examination fees when schools open. In a statement yesterday, Zimsec said the exercise was also meant to enable candidates who paid their examination fees during the holiday…
SADC is pushing to ensure that the forthcoming general elections in Zimbabwe are free, fair and credible, punctuated by peace and nonviolence in keeping with the region’s principles and guidelines governing democratic elections that were adopted in 2004. This comes as the Sadc Electoral Advisory Council (SEAC); an institutional mechanism meant to ensure that electoral…
ZIMBABWE will showcase its investment opportunities during a continental information communication technology conference, Transform Africa Summit, to be held in the resort town of Victoria Falls from 26 to 28 this month, a Cabinet minister has said. Speaking during a post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday night, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said an inter-ministerial organising committee had…
THE Cabinet has approved a new draft law aimed at improving the country’s examination standards and ending the shameful scourge of rampant cheating by learners in many public schools. The proposed new law, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Amendment) Bill, will entail far-reaching reforms that include the taking of oaths of secrecy by officials handling…
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), a group comprising some of the losing candidates in the 2018 presidential election, is still pushing for electoral reforms ahead of the country’s upcoming harmonised polls. Polad member and president of the National Constitutional Assembly(NCA), Lovemore Madhuku, told the Daily News yesterday that the group had been having regular meetings…
LEGISLATORS have called on relevant government authorities to equip and strengthen the operations of the police and public hospitals so that they can fight the increasing drug abuse in the country. While debating in the National Assembly last week, MPs called on the government to implement more measures to curb the abuse of illicit drugs….
By Brighton Muronzereyi PARLIAMENT wants Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Zimbabwe’s Health minister, to articulate the government’s strategy on rising teenage pregnancies in the country. This comes as the latest data from the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (Zimstat) shows that at least 700 girls, aged between 10 and 14, gave birth in the…
