THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has resumed some electoral activities ahead of impending by-elections to fill 117 parliamentary and local authority vacancies as well as preparing for the 2023 general elections. The Daily News on Sunday chief writer Mugove Tafirenyika sat down with the commission’s chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana to discuss their state of…
UTERINE fibroids, medically known as leiomyomas and colloquially termed the tears of a weeping womb are benign growths in the muscle layer of…
THOUSANDS of holders of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) are living in uncertainty because the South African government has not yet indicated whether it will renew their permits. About 180 000 Zimbabweans hold ZEPs. The four-year permit expires on December 31, 2021. Some Zimbabweans said their banks had already warned them to renew their permits…
IT IS every infant’s right to be breastfed. By definition, medically an infant is a baby from birth up to the age of one year. Within the infant age, there’s a special group we call neonates, which is from birth to 28 days. The neonates are a special group because their immunity is still developing…
OVER a fortnight ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law Constitutional Amendment No.2 and immediately extended by five years the term of Chief Justice Luke Malaba. The decision was challenged in the High Court, which overturned the appointment. The government has since appealed against the ruling. The amendment is viewed as Mnangagwa’s game plan to…
ZIMBABWE is saddled by a huge passport backlog as a result of foreign currency shortages to buy consumables. Daily News on Sunday Senior Staff Writer Austin Karonga last week spoke to Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to find out how the government intends to address the issue. Below are the excerpts. Q: What is the…
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni says the country’s second largest city needs renewal and regeneration as part of its development agenda. Mguni, the youngest mayor that the city has ever had post-independence, last week sat down with the Daily News on Sunday’s Bulawayo Bureau Chief Jeffrey Muvundusi to look at the plethora of challenges his council is…
By Tinashe Hofisi THE Constitution of Zimbabwe is in the process of significant alteration. The first amendment bill was passed on September 17 2017 in a second vote by the Senate in accordance with a Constitutional Court order and the second amendment bill has just sailed through the National Assembly and (Senate). Intense opposition to both…
HEALTH has been of utmost importance to humanity since the beginning of times and it is every human being’s desire to be in…
ZIMBABWE’S never-ending political and economic crises are blamed on the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the opposition, civil society and the church to have an all-inclusive dialogue to hammer out solutions. Forthright former Zanu PF spokesperson and the only surviving member of then Zanu’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, believes mistrust…
