Minister of Transport, Felix Mhona, says the government has embarked on a programme of upgrading and modernising the country’s border posts with the Chirundu border post expected to meet the standards of the Beitbridge border post. The two border posts record the largest volume of both human and traffic entries and exits. Work on the…

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has reiterated his desire to meet with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to discuss electoral reforms ahead of the country’s upcoming harmonised polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa once again laid bare how he had made several efforts to engage Mnangagwa on key national issues — to…

THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday shelved its contentious primaries by acclamations in urban areas, ostensibly to enable the party to ramp up its mobilisation of its support base ahead of this year’s crunch national elections. This came as some of the party’s top cats were set to battle it out in key constituencies…

THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will now move to choose some of its candidates for this year’s parliamentary and local government elections by acclamation, after communities in affected areas failed to reach consensus on this. At the same time, party insiders reiterated to the Daily News yesterday that a number of notable party members…

AUTHORITIES will soon introduce more changes to the country’s education system, as part of a broader national strategy to empower learners. Speaking at a media engagement workshop in Harare yesterday, the permanent secretary in the ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Tumisang Thabela, said this would be in keeping with the new education curriculum that…

GLOBAL broadcaster Al Jazeera has flighted the third episode of its four-part documentary focusing on alleged gold smuggling and money laundering in the country. Yesterday’s episode mainly focused on claims that the gold said to be smuggled out of the country is allegedly being “cleaned” and traded in Dubai. According to Al Jazeera, Dubai had…

ZANU PF’s oversubscribed internal elections could portend a disastrous performance by the opposition in the country’s fast-approaching national polls, political analysts have warned. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said it was “significant” that so many people from all walks of life were openly interested in representing the ruling party in…

JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says President Emmerson Mnangagwa will gazette the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) delimitation report when he receives the final document from the polls body. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, amid raging debates over whether Mnangagwa had missed the deadline to gazette the delimitation report, Ziyambi also said there was…