© President Cyril Ramaphosa was embarrassed by a chorus of jeers and boos at the State funeral of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in Harare yesterday. [GoogleAd] A pastor called on the crowd at Harare’s partially-full National Sports Stadium on Saturday to calm down, but they would not stop. But a resilient Ramaphosa turned the…
© AS ZIMBABWEANS and regional peers of the late former president Robert Mugabe gathered in Harare yesterday to bid him farewell, a storm was brewing over the formation of a new political party that is allegedly linked to him, the Daily News On Sunday reports. [GoogleAd] This comes as there are growing fears within Zanu…
© 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…
© SOUTH Africa’s controversial fu- neral painter Lebani Sirenje, popularly known as Rasta, has once again found himself in the middle of a social media storm over his painting of the late former president Robert Mugabe. Rasta shared an image of his art image on the former president with a caption “Rest in eternal power…
© THE court hearing of two Kadoma gold dealers accused of duping a business partner of US$150 000 and prejudicing government by undercutting the value of a mine sale, has been postponed to September 19. Sebastian Magodo, 46, and Kelvin Magwaza, 38, are facing two counts of fraud and theft of mining equipment as well…
© GOVERNMENT has partnered with a leading American hospital in the fight against hard-to-treat childhood cancers in an in- tervention that could bring much-needed new therapy for children. Through Parirenyatwa Hospital, which has the only paediatric centre in the country, government will be working with St Jude Children’s Research and Treatment Hospital in strengthening the…
© STEVE Hanke, an economics professor at John Hopkins University in the United States, has said Zimbabwe’s inflation has risen to 721 percent per annum. This comes after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube had said the gov- ernment will defer publish- ing year-on-year inflation figures while accumulating a database of prices in a “mono-currency” system for…
