By Ashley Moyo THE ZIMBABWE Music Rights Association (Zimura) has distributed the second batch of royalties for this year to the tune of $42 million to over 3500 of its members, with the top earner taking home $900 000. The second payout for the year to artistes comes barely five months after the leading musicians’…
VICE President and also Health minister Constantino Chiwenga recently told the National Assembly that the government was working tirelessly to revamp public health service delivery. Service delivery at public clinics and hospitals has over the last two decades deteriorated to unacceptable standards as a result of failure by the government to equip them with state-of-art…
WITH homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands of trees to process gold ore. Patrick Makwati (29), working alongside his 23-year-old cousin, Sybeth Mwendauya, are some of the miners who mine without a permit that have descended…
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has revealed that close to 2 000 hectares of land has been destroyed by sand poachers in the last four months throughout the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Ema spokesperson Amkela Sidange said there was need for local authorities to protect the environment within their jurisdiction by putting…
By Blessings Mashaya and Brighton Muronzereyi ANALYSTS have reiterated that it is very important that political parties and other key stakeholders engage ahead of the 2023 national elections to ensure peace before, during and after the crunch polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, senior lecturer at South Africa’s Tshwane University of Technology, Ricky Mukonza…
By Rutendo Ngara THE country’s agriculture sector recorded significant growth in growth and exports in the 2020/2021 season compared to the previous season, the government says. This comes as the agriculture sector hit the initial 2025 target of US$8.2 billion a year last year as the industry grew by 36.2 percent to US$8.19 billion.Speaking during…
By Brighton Muronzereyi THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it is yet to deliberate on whether it should use electronic election results screens at polling stations in next year’s harmonised polls. This comes after Zec used digital platforms as a pilot project in the March 26 by-elections, in a bid to enable the efficiency and…
FORMER wife of vice president Constantino Chiwenga, Marry Mubaiwa was yesterday acquitted of assaulting her maid by magistrate Learnmore Mapiye. Mapiye ruled that the State’s case was weak and punctuated with contradictions from witnesses. She accepted Mubaiwa’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa’s arguments in her discharge application at the close of the State case that the matter…
By Hazel Marimbiza THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday proposed a budget of US$158 million for 2023, a figure it said is key in ensuring improved service delivery and infrastructure maintenance. This comes after sentiments expressed during the recently held budget consultation meetings were mainly focused on the need to improve service delivery at an…
ZANU PF has claimed that their relationship with Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is thawing as the current leadership is open to work with the ruling party. In its central committee report released last week, the former liberation movement said the period of acrimony between Zanu PF and ZCTU was now over. “It should…
