Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITER THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has set up 513 polling stations in nine parliamentary constituencies and 58 councils. The by-elections come after the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general, Sengezo Tshabangu, has recalled dozens of MPs, senators and councillors over the imposition of candidates. However, in a statement yesterday,…
HIGH Court Judge, Justice Webster Chinamhora, who was facing allegations of corruption, has resigned rather than face a tribunal, the Judicial Service…
THE Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Midlands, Owen Ncube has called upon the Drug and Substance Abuse Committee in Kwekwe district to provide him with regular updates on the apprehension of drug barons. The Drug and Sub – stance Abuse Committee at Kwekwe District Hospital, chaired by Fortune Mupungu, District Development…
ZIMBABWEAN Forests are disappearing at a frightening rate, with the Forestry Commission of Zimbabwe estimating that the country loses about 262 000 hectares of forest annually. According to the country’s regulatory authority for forests, 15 to 20 percent of this loss is due to tobacco. The United Nations Development Programme estimates that the rate of…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s sole gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), has introduced mobile gold buying units across the nation to ease the burden on small-scale miners who operate in remote areas. This was confirmed in the National Assembly on Wednesday where Mines deputy minister Polite Kambamura was responding to a question…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced State-assisted burials for the 22 people who were killed in a road accident on Tuesday evening along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road. In a statement yesterday, Mnangagwa said authorities would avail funds to assist the bereaved families. “The government will weigh in by according the victims of this horrendous crash State-assisted burial….
CHAOS reared its ugly head in the Warriors camp in Rwanda yesterday amid a stand-off between players and the team’s administration over unpaid allowances, as well as a disagreement over bonuses. Things had appeared to be going smoothly in the Warriors set up after they played out a goalless draw with the hosts in their…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO THE Education ministry says it is recruiting over 570 education inspectors who will be engaged next January in a bid to improve and promote effectiveness and efficiency in schools. Speaking to the Daily News on Wednesday on the sidelines of a strategic meeting in Bulawayo, the ministry’s permanent secretary, Moses Mhike,…
By Beaven Dhliwayo Group Features Editor GLOBAL Renaissance Investments (GRI) will host the 8th edition of the Zimbabwe Infrastructure Summit and Awards in Victoria Falls to work towards accelerating infrastructure projects which are a key enabler of the envisaged Vision 2030 that seeks to make Zimbabwe an upper-middle-class economy. The Infrastructure Summit which is slated…
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo is expected to hold elections on 20 December. The country’s electoral commission has announced President Felix…
