© POOR security at public health institutions has led to leakages of drugs which are finding their way into the black market, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Care has said. [GoogleAd] The committee has called on public health institutions to immediately put in place their own internal security to curb leakages of…
© THE parliamentary portfolio committee on budget and finance led by Chikomba Central MP Felix Mhona says pensioners are now experiencing the same hardships they faced in 2008 when all their savings were wiped out due to an economic crisis. [GoogleAd] In its latest report, the committee urged the government put in place measures to…
© THE government on Friday gazetted the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) Bill which seeks to enhance the operations of the court. [GoogleAd] The Bill seeks to provide for the manner in which the Con-Court may exercise its jurisdiction and provide for the making of rules and regulations guiding it. It also makes provisions for appeals from…
© The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Association (Artuz) says 190 teachers in rural areas resigned in August over poor salaries. Artuz president Obert Masaraure yesterday said: “We have received 190 messages of resignation from teachers since the beginning of August. [GoogleAd] These are our members who have notified us of their resignation and most of them…
© ZIMBABWE will experience yet another bad rainy season after the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) predicted normal to below normal rainfall in the 2019/2020 season. [GoogleAd] According to the national forecaster, erratic rains are expected next month, but would improve in November and December. Another forecaster, the Southern Africa Seasonal Outlook Forum (Sasof), said the…
© THE government has gazetted new salaries for the catering industry with the least paid worker getting $349,89 and the highest paid getting $571,56 monthly. [GoogleAd] The new salaries are in Statutory Instrument 190 of 2019. “Every employer shall place each employee in a grade prescribed appropriate to his or her occupation, and shall with…
© PRESIDENT Emerson Mnangagwa’s “new dispensation” has been characterised by a sharp decline in State and civil society organisations (CSOs) relations, with human rights organisations in particular coming under increased surveillance and scrutiny, a report has claimed. [GoogleAd] The report launched by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in partnership with Trocaire recently, assessed…
© RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been summoned to appear before the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (Pac) to answer allegations that US$3 billion vanished under the controversial Command Agriculture programme between 2017 and 2018. [GoogleAd] Pac chairperson Tendai Biti told the Daily News yesterday that his committee wants clarification on alleged…
© ZIMBABWE Agriculture Society (ZAS) chief executive officer Anxious Masuka, pictured, says some government agriculture policies, programmes and subsidies are not working but are instead, worsening food insecurity in the country. [GoogleAd] Speaking at the Daily News breakfast forum on Thursday, Masuka said a study they conducted showed that 40 percent of food insecurity was…
© VILLAGERS from the late former president Robert Mugabe’s Zvimba rural home will bid him farewell today after the programme was postponed yesterday on the grounds that his grieving wife Grace was unwell. [GoogleAd] Mugabe, who died on September 6 at the age of 95 in Singapore, will only be buried after 30 days after…
