© VUNGU Rural District Council is rushing to drill half a dozen boreholes across the district to ensure enough water for drinking and washing, as farmers grapple with a drought and a months-long water shortage. [GoogleAd] The RDC has invited domestic competitive tenders towards drilling of the six boreholes. “Bids are invited from legible and…
© THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is now investigating how US$3 billion allegedly disappeared from government coffers under the controversial Command Agriculture programme, the Daily News can report. This comes as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said the government will stump out a further $2,8 billion on the programme — in a move which has…
© ZVISHAVANE Town Council has proposed to review supplementary tariffs of its 2019 budget with effect from August 1, 2019. [GoogleAd] In a statement, town secretary Tinoda Mukutu said the proposed supplementary tariffs will be open for inspection during working hours at the town council offices. The town said any person may lodge comments to…
A SENIOR Cabinet minister has confirmed that the ugly Zanu PF factional and succession wars — which led to the stunning ouster from power of former president Robert Mugabe in a popular military coup in November 2017 — have returned to haunt the former liberation movement. This comes as other well-placed sources also told the…
© GOVERNMENT has set up an electronic recruitment process for aspiring nurses in an effort create transparency and curb rampant corruption associated with enrolment at schools of nursing in the country, Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has said. [GoogleAd] Previously, applications were done manually with hospital staff, middlemen and conmen duping prospective nursing…
© An umbrella union of teachers has called a strike for its members in all public schools as soon as the third term opens if an agreement is not reached with government over US dollar-denominated pay. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) secretary general Tapson Sibanda told the Daily News that teachers will stay off the…
© AS ZIMBABWE’s economic situation gets more desperate by the day, churches have launched a fresh bid to try and end the bickering between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] The fresh calls for dialogue come as tensions continue to rise in the country, over the worsening…
© LIFE continues to get harder for long-suffering Zimbabweans, with the new economic measures announced by under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube last week triggering a fresh round of price increases of basic goods and services, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] To make matters worse, some retailers have announced that they are reducing their trading…
© Padenga Holdings Limited — engaged in the production and sale of crocodilian skins and meat — has ventured into mining after acquiring 50,1 percent shareholding in Dallaglio Investments which specialises in mining. In a notice yesterday Padenga said the deal is to be settled by way of a cash injection in Zimbabwe dollars. [GoogleAd]…
© OPPOSITION United National African National Council (UANC) president Nesbert Mtengezanwa has vowed that his rival Gwinyai Muzorewa — brother to founding party leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa — will not be allowed to take over leadership of the party. [GoogleAd] This comes after Muzorewa, who leads a splinter UANC faction, successfully filed nomination papers for…
