A FAMILY of six last December required more than $355 000 a month for basic commodities, an increase, according to the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) of 14 percent from November and attributed to impulse buying during the festive season. “The cost of living as measured by CCZ’s low income urban earner monthly basket for…
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) will this year disburse about $94 billion for roads rehabilitation and upgrading of toll gates infrastructure. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zinara spokesperson Tendai Mugabe said last year the authority disbursed $33.97 billion in road rehabilitation funds. “This year, we have budgeted $93.9 billion for disbursements on road…
PUBLIC sector workers, including teachers, want good-faith dialogue with the government to end years of strained relations with their employer, which have often boiled over into industrial action. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, the secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), Raymond Majongwe, said…
INFORMATION Communication Technology minister Jenfan Muswere has commissioned the country’s first multi-million dollar rail fibre optic project in the resort town of Victoria Falls. It was bankrolled by international group Bandwidth and Cloud Services (BCS) in partnership with DFA Zimbabwe and is not only aimed at addressing the much-needed network diversity and redundancy in Zimbabwe,…
INVICTUS Energy, the company that was awarded a contract to explore gas and oil in Muzarabani basin, Cahora Bassa region, has closed drilling operations at its first exploration well, Mukuyu-1, due to technical challenges. In a statement yesterday, Invictus Energy managing director Scott Macmillan said some testing tools used in the exploration and drilling processes…
THE Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has called for peace and tolerance as the country gets ready for national elections later this year. In a statement on the commemoration of the World Day Prayer of Peace held on January 1, the CCJP expressed worry over the nation’s disregard for human life, hate speech,…
THE National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) should be disbanded and replaced by a platform for social dialogue that promotes industrial harmony and productivity, teachers have said. Civil servants are displeased with the government’s negotiations over their working conditions, which they claim are biased in the employer’s favour. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president, Takavafira…
HARARE City Council (HCC) will enter into more private partnerships with local banks to construct more houses to clear the housing backlog and embark on an exercise to regularise informal settlements that have sprouted in some residential areas. In an interview with the Daily News, the mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume said it was worrying…
COMBINED Harare Residents and Ratepayers Association (CHRRA) has demanded that Harare City Council (HCC) makes the final version of its 2023 budget available to all residents, including those with disabilities, the elderly, and other less privileged members of society. CHRRA acting director, Rueben Akili, told the Daily News that the HCC had not shown the…
RESIDENTS in Masvingo are urging local government authorities to expedite the construction of a new landfill, as the current one, located near the Runyararo West and Victoria Ranch suburbs, has become a health hazard. Masvingo United Residents and Ratepayers Alliance (MURRA) spokesperson, Godfrey Mtimba said residents want the local authority to speed up the completion…
