BY NYASHA KUNYISWA LEGISLATION for the long debated national health insurance scheme to provide accessible and affordable quality healthcare for all is expected to be tabled in the National Assembly soon, Health minister Douglas Mombeshora says. Addressing journalists on Friday after meeting the National Health Insurance Taskforce members in Harare, Mombeshora said they were working…

By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE interim leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Welshman Ncube, will remain at the helm of the country’s main opposition party. Acting CCC spokesperson and mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that Ncube would keep the party’s top leadership position until the fledgling movement…

By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the baking industry to invest in contract farming in order to enhance their productivity in the face of the current El Nino-induced drought. Speaking yesterday during the commissioning of a new state-of-the-art US$27 million Bulawayo Baker’s Inn plant, Mnangagwa urged the baking industry to reduce…

BY BRANDON JOSPHAT AUTHORITIES plan to keep track of the price of maize-meal across the country, in a bid to look after poor Zimbabweans during the current drought season. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka said the government would not hesitate to intervene if the price of mealie-meal was hiked…