© THE main opposition MDC has approached the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) over reports of abductions of its members in the second largest city. This comes as a number of youths from the opposition in the city are in hiding, fearing for their lives following a crackdown by State security agents in the wake…
© People living with HIV in Zimbabwe who are on antiretroviral treatment (ARVs) are being given expired medication, the Health and Child Care parliamentary portfolio committee and the Thematic Committee on HIV and Aids has said. This emerged during the joint sitting of the committees when they received oral evidence from the Zimbabwe Aids Network…
© THE move by the Lozwi people to celebrate Mambo dynasty day has attracted mixed feelings among culturalists, with reports that several chiefs in the Matabeleland region shunned the event. The event, which was held at the weekend at Mawabeni, Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province, was well-attended, with traditional leaders from different parts of the country…
© ZIMBABWE’S health institutions are manned by unqualified staff as a result of a recruitment freeze imposed by government, the Daily News can report. This was revealed last week by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Care in a report to the National Assembly on the state of medicines and drugs supply in…
© LAWYERS representing former Bulawayo deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami have challenged a council decision to stop him from serving as a councillor. This comes after High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa recently nullified Kambarami’s election, which he argued was in violation of Section 119 (2)(e) of the Electoral Act in light of his conviction for…
© ILLEGAL artisanal diamond diggers are desecrating graves that are still to be exhumed for reburial in designated cemeteries in Chiadzwa, the Daily News can report. Families that were hastily moved out of the diamond fields to pave way to formal mining operations are blaming government and the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) for failing…
© HARARE City Council is engaging the government to seek permission to charge certain ratepayers in foreign currency. Mayor Herbert Gomba said the move would allow council to procure chemicals and other items that require foreign currency. He said the city already had potential customers such as consuls and non-governmental organisations who, after central government…
© VICE President Kembo Mohadi, pictured, has revealed that government is mulling a complete ban on single-use plastic in 15 months in line with global trends aimed at limiting environmental pollution. Plastic is not biodegradable and takes decades to break down, with single-use plastic being a particular menace. [GoogleAd] Calls to ban plastic in preference…
© DEPUTY Information minister Energy Mutodi, pictured, is under fire from his Zanu PF party after he appeared to suggest President Emmerson Mnangagwa elevated Justice Webster Chinamhora to the High Court because he is a son of ex-liberation war detainee George Chinamhora. [GoogleAd] Mutodi posted a picture of the senior Chinamhora and unwittingly implied that…
© TRADITIONAL chiefs are up in arms with government, protesting that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is paying lip service to their welfare issues. Chief Witness Chikwaka led the charge in the Senate, imploring government to increase the salaries of chiefs in the same manner they are regularly reviewing upwards civil servants’ salaries. [GoogleAd] “I would want…
