BY LAWRENCE PAGANGADeputy News Editor ZIMBABWE’S Ninth Parliament Session will complete its five-year term on August 22, just one day before the fast-approaching crunch general elections. Most of the sitting and seasoned MPs from the ruling Zanu PF, the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and MDC will not return to Parliament as they lost…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday rallied his supporters to vote for him and Zanu PF ahead of the August 23 elections, saying only the ruling party had capacity to uplift the lives of ordinary people. Speaking during the launch of the Zanu PF campaigning manifesto in Chipinge, Mnangagwa said his government was committed…
BY RUTENDO NGARA IN A bid to digitally transform the agriculture industry in the country, the government is working on an online agricultural college. The college would be the 10th agriculture learning institution along with the likes of Esigodini, Mlezu , Mushagashe, Mupfure and Rio Tinto colleges, among others. Addressing delegates at a field day…
YVONNE NCUBEin BULAWAYO ANOTHER presidential candidate in the August 23 general elections has called for the formation of a government of national unity (GNU) after the polls. This comes as independent presidential candidate, Saviour Kasukuwere, has also called for a unity government to allow citizens to collectively tackle the country’s myriad challenges. Leader of the…
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the outlines of a deal aimed at lifting his country…
Warnings over the safety of OceanGate’s Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading…
Cloud Fusire fusirec@dailynews.co.zw CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe is unfazed by the prospect of his side playing their home games away from Harare, when the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) resumes early next month. The league was put on hold earlier this month to pave way for renovations at several stadiums that include National…
WHEN Zimbabwe last hosted the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup qualifier in 2018, it ended in disappointment as the Chevrons missed out on a place at the ODI global showcase, with Afghanistan and today’s opponents West Indies making it through to the 2019 tournament. That failure marked the first time since 1983 that Zimbabwe had…
By Brandon Josphat ZANU PF is ramping up its campaign ahead of the crunch August 23 harmonised elections, starting with today’s all-important launch of the party’s manifesto in Chipinge, in Manicaland. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said the Eastern Highlands gathering would mark the beginning of “an all-out crusade, underpinned by door-to-door…
By Yvonne Ncube A TEENAGER, 19, from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo, was yesterday sentenced to an effective six years in prison for sodomising his neighbour’s four-year-old son, who had been left in his custody. Godfrey Moyo appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga facing a charge of aggravated indecent assault. He pleaded guilty to…
