© GOVERNMENT should not make exemptions to enforcing rules and policies if it is to have sound financial management of its local authorities, a German commentator has said. [GoogleAd] At a workshop convened by Harare City Council and its German partners GIZ, the latter’s programme manager Stephan Lidsba said it was important to be objective…
© FEMALE parliamentarians will tomorrow deliberate on the Marriage Bill that has drawn national attention with a view to unpacking it before it is formally introduced in the National Assembly. [GoogleAd] Last Wednesday, MDC MPs blocked attempts by the leader of government business in Parliament, Ziyambi Ziyambi, to introduce the Bill arguing for members of…
© A REPORT by the Harare City Council (HCC) health department showed that sampled wells in Glen View are all contaminated. [GoogleAd] The report which was presented to council by health services director Prosper Chonzi revealed that while there was no cholera outbreak; drivers of the disease were rampant. HCC has been struggling with waterborne…
© ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (Zesn) is encouraging women to participate as candidates in elections and calls on political parties to deliberately support and field more female candidates. [GoogleAd] This comes after the close of the Nomination Courts for by-elections to fill the National Assembly seats for Glen View South and Mangwe constituencies only saw…
© GOVERNMENT has acquired 100 new ambulances to service provincial, district and rural health centres to improve access to health care in the country, Health minister Obadiah Moyo told Parliament recently. [GoogleAd] Moyo said this last week during Parliament’s question and answer session while responding to MDC Binga North MP Prince Dubeko Sibanda who had…
© GOVERNMENT is working towards compensating farmers who lost around 50 000 cattle to January Disease between the 2017 to 2018 rainy season. [GoogleAd] Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Apollonia Munzverengi said government is aware that a number of farmers lost their cattle due to the January Disease. “Currently there are plans to compensate those…
© FIREBRAND South African opposition leader Julius Malema of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is concerned about the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe which is nearing implosion due to economic collapse. [GoogleAd] This has prompted Malema to wade into Zimbabwe’s affairs. Addressing tens of thousands of his supporters at Kanyamazane Stadium in Mpumalanga province during the sixth…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is coming under growing pressure to jettison Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira — who appeared in court yesterday facing a litany of charges relating to alleged looting of funds at the National Social Security (Nssa). Mupfumira, 68, was arrested early on Thursday morning by officers from the newly-reconstituted Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), over…
© In a first clearest sign that all is not well in the corridors of power, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a ministerial committee which will help Energy minister Fortune Chasi find a lasting solution to the protracted power scarcity which has hit industry, hospitals and other key drivers of the economy hard. [GoogleAd] Chasi…
© ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa has said government does not respect the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF), with ministers allegedly contemptuously snubbing key meetings. TNF brings together government, labour and business to the negotiating table to avoid strikes and demonstrations by workers. In an interview with the Daily News, Mutasa said…
