THE United States of America (USA) says Zimbabwe remains an attractive investment destination for its companies despite Washington’s long-standing sanctions on the country. Speaking in a USA Harare Embassy podcast on the Zimbabwe sanctions this week, Washington’s director for economic sanctions policy and implementation for the Department of State, Jim Mullinax, added that America had…

AUTHORITIES say they are doing everything in their power to further improve the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans. Speaking in an interview last night with the recently-launched independent television station, 3Ktv, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya, pictured, said the government considered the country’s economic challenges a major priority. This comes amid complaints by struggling…

THE government has promised to improve the welfare of chiefs by giving them fuel, airtime and medical aid on top of their official cars. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Local Government deputy minister Marian Chombo, said several meetings had so far been held “to try as much as we can to address their…

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has dismissed the recent call by the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for South Africa to once again intervene in Zimbabwe’s decades-long political challenges. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Charamba also said the issue of political violence in the country was largely “traceable” to the opposition as a result of its regular…

THE discord within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over whether or not to accept former MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe, into its ranks continues to rage on. And with the usual cast of vocal party gatekeepers — albeit almost all of them never having been elected even for goat-skinning duties in their villages —…

AUTHORITIES are sweating over the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which has seen the government battling to evacuate all the country’s citizens from the Eastern European country. So serious is the situation concerning Zimbabweans in Ukraine, that authorities have now petitioned the European Union (EU) and Russia for their safe passage out of the war-hit country. This…

THE government says almost all teachers who went on strike since schools opened last month are back at work and that their salaries plight was now a closed chapter. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, deputy Education minister, Edgar Moyo said the government had solved the teachers’ concerns and the situation is now normal in…

THE newly-formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party wants neighbouring South Africa to once again take a leading role in mediating Zimbabwe’s decades-long political crisis. Speaking during an online discussion on Wednesday on the political situation in the country, one of the CCC’s interim vice presidents, Tendai Biti, said South Africa and President Cyril Ramaphosa…

AUTHORITIES have promised to end the challenges that Zimbabweans are enduring in trying to acquire national identity cards and birth certificates. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said the current crisis had been caused by shortages of consumables used in producing national IDs. In the case of birth certificates, he said…