CIVIL servants yesterday said their negotiations with the government over salaries are now useless owing primarily to their employer’s alleged intransigence. Speaking to the Daily News, Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) secretary-general David Dzatsunga said the volatility of the exchange rate also made their situation worse. “Salary negotiations are becoming useless without…

ACTING Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Welshman Ncube, says the party is stepping up its efforts to end long-running divisions within the country’s opposition. Ncube also told the Daily News at the weekend that although the CCC’s fresh push for national dialogue in the country was in its infancy, he was optimistic that this…

ZANU PF has shown some satisfaction that South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) was now following its footsteps and standing up against the West. Speaking to the media last week, Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa said its relationship with other former liberation movements in the region was getting stronger as they understood what Zimbabwe…

THE brutal power cuts of the past few weeks are set to ease after it emerged that Zesa is ramping up its electricity imports from South Africa and Mozambique. In more good news for the utility’s longsuffering customers, Zesa has also managed to bring back online the refurbished Unit 6 at the key Hwange Power…

THE Catholic Church has once again implored Zanu PF and the opposition to show political will so that the longmooted national dialogue can finally take place. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid indications that both Zanu PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are now willing to hold talks, the secretary-general of the…

AUTHORITIES have reiterated that there are no plans to tinker with the country’s Constitution to allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his stay in power. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi underlined that extending presidential terms was neither on the agenda of the ruling Zanu PF nor its government. “We don’t…

GOVERNMENT yesterday came out guns blazing saying local councils must stop giving undeveloped land to home seekers, arguing this has led to an increase in land barons. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, permanent secretary in the ministry of Presidential Affairs Tafadzwa Muguti said there was no room for land barons. “His Excellency…

THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is reigniting the opposition’s push for dialogue with Zanu PF, in a bid to help fix the country’s myriad challenges. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, CCC spokesperson Nqobizitha Mlilo said it was pointless at this stage to focus on politics when the majority of Zimbabweans were…

A MAJOR shake-up is looming in the ruling Zanu PF, amid growing calls for the former liberation movement to do more to resolve the country’s Zim dollar, prices and salaries crisis. Well-placed sources who spoke to the Daily News yesterday confirmed that sweeping changes were in the offing in the party, which would likely see…