STAFF WRITER chrimujiris@dailynews.co.zw A FACTION of the opposition MDC party, led by former vice president Elias Mudzuri, is pushing for the removal of the party’s president, Douglas Mwonzora. This comes after High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou ruled last week that the MDC party’s 2022 congress, which elected Mwonzora, was null and void, and ordered…
THE minister of Women Affairs, Monica Mutsvangwa, says the government facilitated local and international market access for 14 173 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) last year. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Army Staff College in Harare on Monday on Women Empowerment and the National Lecture Economy, Mutsvangwa emphasised the critical need for the provision of decent…
THE law will soon catch up with Zimbabweans in the country and abroad who are continuing to sow seeds of division among citizens. So says the national spokesperson of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Paul Nyathi, who also stressed anew that authorities had the capacity to bring to book all those who were allegedly working…
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume says the city council has frozen the payment of hefty salaries to its top executives, pending negotiations with the senior employees. The decision comes after it emerged that the town clerk, Hosiah Chisango, was earning US$30 000 per month during the ongoing commission of Inquiry into the affairs of Harare instituted…
STAFF WRITER STAKEHOLDERS have called on authorities to address water shortages in the country’s hospitals to ensure pregnant women receive care in…
STAFF WRITER chirimujiris@dailynews.com AUTHORITIES have introduced a policy framework for audit committees in ministries to promote good governance and transparency, ensuring effective management of public resources. Speaking during a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday, the minister of Information Jenfan Muswere said each ministry would constitute a board to which its audit committees will report. “In the…
WARRING opposition bigwigs need to urgently bury the hatchet and draw lessons from the exemplary leadership of the revered late founding father of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, who left behind a thriving and formidable movement. So says former MDC chairman Morgen Komichi, who candidly admits that current opposition leaders have an almost impossible job to…
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume was yesterday given an option of paying US$300 fine or serve three months in prison for lying under oath by the Harare Commission on Inquiry into suspected mismanagement and corruption at Town House. However, commission chairperson Justice Maphios Cheda wholly suspended the sentence on condition Mafume will not commit a similar…
THE reality remains that as long as the government continues to demand US dollars for many of its services, this will negatively impact the confidence that Zimbabweans have in the ZiG. So reiterates economist and business executive, Kipson Gundani, who adds that authorities also need to act urgently and decisively against corruption, as the scourge…
STAFF WRITER chirimujiris@dailynews.co.zw HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday admitted to falsely claiming that he resided in Greendale before the Harare commission of inquiry. The commission, led by retired Justice Maphios Cheda, discovered that the premises were being leased by a car sales company. Mafume blamed the mistake on his recent move to Greendale, insisting that…
