SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts that he is the “interim secretary-general” of the at-war Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is cranking up the heat on beleaguered party leader Nelson Chamisa. In the latest instalment of the CCC’s growing infighting, Tshabangu ordered the party’s legislators and councillors yesterday to defy Chamisa’s Wednesday directive that they disengage from…
THE 16th edition of Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo opens in Bulawayo today with a packed schedule of intense business engagement sessions as Zimbabwe seeks to capitalise on the showcase to drive higher tourism earnings. The annual exhibition runs from today to October 14 at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) grounds under the theme: “Tourism…
ZIMBABWE and Malawi have reviewed and signed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which is aimed at promoting tourism investment between the two countries. The first MoU was signed in 2015. At a meeting attended by senior government officials from both countries in Bulawayo yesterday, the authorities focused on reviewing progress made in implementing agreed areas…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is taking over the running of the Results Based Finance (RBF) urban voucher programme at all its clinics in order to continue safeguarding the health needs of expecting women and their babies. This comes as funding for the programme, which was an arrangement between the World Bank, the…
THE Zimbabwe Council for Churches (ZCC) says it has rescued over 13 800 citizens across the country through its food and nutritional assistance, as part of its poverty security alleviation initiative. In its 2022 annual report released yesterday, the ZCC said the macroeconomic situation in the country remained volatile resulting in limited accessibility to food…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has engaged local residents and businesses to assist with vehicles for its polio vaccination campaign, which starts tomorrow. In a statement yesterday, the BCC town clerk, Christopher Dube, said the council needed to hire at least 103 vehicles for the free vaccination programme. “The City of Bulawayo is inviting individuals…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says the youth comprise the highest proportion of new prisoners across the country’s prisons. In its 2023 second quarter prison admissions and discharge statistics, the agency indicated that most of the new inmates, who had not completed any level of education, were in jail for theft, as[1]sault, burglary and…
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has implored the government to consult extensively before it crafts and introduces new policies, as this will ensure the support and growth of the country’s economy. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the ZNCC national vice president, Charlton Chimbira, said extensive research consultations had to be carried out…
THE ministry of Finance has called on industry and the government to unite in coming up with legislation and policies aimed at sustaining the country’s pension funds. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Associations of Pension Funds (ZAPF) conference in Bulawayo on Friday, deputy minister of Finance Kuda Mnangagwa told delegates that stakeholders should assist in coming…
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed a women stakeholder engagement last week in Bulawayo with some female politicians breaking down into tears as they agonisingly narrated how they had endured a plethora of grim obstacles in their political journeys where men have dominated the hard-nosed political domain. So disturbing was the situation that the organisers found it…
