© FOLLOWING the indiscriminate abductions and torture of opposition MDC activists and civil society members in the past weeks by suspected government security agents, the Daily News on Sunday’s Simba Rushwaya sat down with former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also the deputy president of the MDC, Harare East legislator and chairperson of Parliament’s…
© THE Parliamentary Thematic Committee on Human Rights has condemned the country’s holding cells saying they are unfit to detain people, and were in breach of international norms. [GoogleAd] In its findings after visiting a number of police stations around the country, the Senate committee said there is need to construct modern police sta-tions in…
© DOCTORS have snubbed the government’s 60 percent salary increment offer, and say they are going ahead with their planned strike on Tuesday this week. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting president,Prince Magombeyi, also said following their decision to strike, security agents had been threatening to “kill” them if they did not call off…
© THE chairperson of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (Pac), Tendai Biti, has vowed to deal with the “debilitating” corruption in government and any “looters” who will be unmasked by his committee’s ongoing probe of the controversial Command Agriculture programme. [GoogleAd] Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, the tough-talking Harare…
© EXPERTS say Zimbabwe is struggling to detect HIV drug-resistant cases at most public hospitals due to a lack of equipment putting the lives of many patients at risk. This comes as it has emerged that the country is struggling with drug-resistant cases among HIV-positive people, especially children. National Paediatric HIV Care and Treatment co-ordinator Angela…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s attempts to end decades of Zimbabwe’s international isolation are all but dead in the water, after the European Union (EU) threatened to pull the plug on future funding this week, unless Harare effects needed political reforms, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] In addition, the EU has also bluntly told the govern-…
© ZIMBABWE ambassador to South Africa, David Hamadziripi, has written to that country’s government demanding safety of Zimbabwean truck drivers after resurgent xenophobic attacks against foreign na- tionals, particularly truck operators from the region. This comes as truckers in SA have embarked on a strike that ends on Tuesday. Zimbabwean truck driv- ers are being…
© NORTON Town Council (NTC) has entered into an agreement with private firm Hydromart for the construction of the town’s own water treatment plant. According to the town secretary Kizito Muhom- ba, the plant would be able to treat 200 megalitres (Ml) of water for the town. This comes as Harare, which supplies the town with…
© FORMER minister in the then vice president Joice Mujuru’s office, Flora Buka, has been dragged to the High Court after failing to pay a $370 000 electricity bill. Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has approached the High Court seeking registration of a deed of settlement to have Buka ordered to settle $368…
© MDC national deputy organising secretary Sibusisiwe Budha appeared in court yesterday charged with failing to comply with a prohibition notice issued by the police which banned the August 16 demonstrations in Harare. Budha is being charged of violating section 26 (11) of the Public Order and Security Act Chapter 11:17. [GoogleAd] Her arraignment comes a…
