ZIMBABWE health authorities last night announced they have detected the Indian Covid-19 variant in Kwekwe following the death of a local businessman from the deadly virus. This comes after Robson Kadenhe, 76, a known hypertension patient died last Wednesday after testing positive for Covid-19. His wife and niece, who had just returned from India, also…
LEGISLATORS yesterday demanded that the Local Government ministry must table in parliament the Justice Tendai Uchena Commission’s land audit report which exposed massive illegal land grabs by politicians and businesspeople in and around urban areas. The matter arose during the National Assembly question and answer session, with Zanu PF legislator Energy Mutodi asking Local Government…
ZANU PF has intensified its preparations for the 2023 elections and the upcoming by-elections after the ruling party deployed politburo members to various provinces to mobilise and recruit new members. Speaking during the ruling party’s policy meeting at the weekend, Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu said the party was making sure everything is…
LEGISLATORS have given the government a seven-day ultimatum to allocate them residential stands they were promised, failure of which they said they will take legal action. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa said if the government failed to give them the residential stands he was going to approach the…
THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Budget and Finance says there is a need to speed up the Pension and Provident Funds Bill, which will help cushion pensioners, who are currently wallowing in poverty. In a report after public hearings on the Bill, the committee said the country’s laws were now outdated and no longer address…
LEGISLATORS have given the government a seven-day ultimatum to allocate them residential stands they were promised, failure of which they said they will take legal action. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa said if the government failed to give them the residential stands he was going to approach the…
INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere says the rural folk should acquaint itself with cybercrimes, following the government’s ambitious national plan to connect the communities across the country to the internet. Speaking during the Postal and Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) official opening of Maranda Village Information Centre in Mwenezi yesterday, Muswere…
PARLIAMENTARIANS have taken Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to task over claims of budget surplus, demanding a breakdown of how the money was used, saying the situation on the ground contradicted assertions that the government had excess money. Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa this week asked deputy Speaker Tsitsi Gezi to summon Ncube to the National…
ZANU PF says it has no appetite to get involved in the affairs of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), where President Cyril Ramaphosa is at loggerheads with suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule. This comes as Ramaphosa and the ANC have been pressing to end Zimbabwe’s long-standing challenges — which were recently brought…
THE government has a serious headache over public transport challenges and is now considering withdrawing intercity buses to bridge the deficit in urban areas. Local Government minister July Moyo, pictured, told legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday that they are looking at various options to address the transport situation. “I will admit that if…
