National News

HUMANITARIAN organisations, including Oxfam Zimbabwe, Hope for a Child in Christ (Hocic) and Start Network, have collaborated to deliver food assistance to over 20 000 people in Matabeleland South Province’s food insecure areas. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared this year’s drought a state of national disaster and appealed for international assistance. Speaking to…

THE Zanu PF annual people’s conference, starting today in Bulawayo, presents a critical opportunity for the ruling party to address the country’s economic challenges directly. It is encouraging to hear the party spokesperson, Christopher Mutsvangwa, state they will focus on developing more policies to enhance the lives of all Zimbabweans. He also mentioned that the…

Stella MadzivanyikaSTAFF WRITERmadzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw HEALTH experts have challenged employers to allow their senior executives to undergo training for them to be able to recognise and address employees’ mental health issues which are reportedly on the rise. This was said yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) communicable and non-communicable disease technical officer, Mkhokheli Ngwenya, in an…

Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on stakeholders to take advantage of current technological transformations and scale-up innovations in the mining sector as this will fuel the country’s economic growth. He said this while officially opening the Mine Entra expo at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo yesterday, where he added the…

By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A SUSPECTED illegal foreign currency dealer Gerald Pondai, 32, was arraigned before the court on Friday for allegedly duping his client ZiG400 000 in a botched money exchange deal. Pondai, who is facing fraud charges, was remanded in custody to August 16 for bail application by magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa. According to…

Interview by Guthrie Munyuki Group Editor-In-Chief WITH the call from Zanu PF’s women and youth leagues for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond the expiry of his final term in office in 2028 getting louder by the day, his biographer and renowned economist Eddie Cross believes the president will not go for a…