© THE government must urgently pay US$6 million to the Global Fund to enable Zimbabwe to access $400 million in donor funds to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria in the country. [GoogleAd] As a result of the delay in paying the US$6m to the Global Fund, furious HIV/Aids activists have since petitioned Parliament to pressure…
© Health workers and Harare City Council (HCC) officials were on Tuesday racing to contain a cholera outbreak in the largest high density suburb in Zimbabwe after residents drank contaminated water. [GoogleAd] This comes as HCC has struggled to supply water to Mbare, which apart from being one of the most populated suburbs in the…
© THE United States of America has released yet another damning report on Zimbabwe — observing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government continues to fail to capitalise on the goodwill that was presented to the country following the ouster from power of former leader Robert Mugabe in November 2017, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes…
© THE recent move by Bulawayo deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, pictured, to suspend city town clerk Christopher Dube has lately ignited a lot of debate among city residents, stakeholders and academics rising mostly from the legality of the move. [GoogleAd] A faction of MDC councillors led by Kambarami claimed to have suspended Dube on charges…
© THERE was drama outside the Bulawayo High Court on Monday as the mainstream MDC supporters clashed with their Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) opponents over a court case questioning under-fire deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami’s legitimacy. [GoogleAd] Kambarami was appearing before High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa in a case filed by the radical pressure group,…
© THE Local Government ministry has indicated it is willing to arbitrate in the dispute between the Bulawayo City Council and Zesa Holdings (Zesa). [GoogleAd] The two are fighting for the control of the Bulawayo Power Station. Things, however, went sour about two weeks ago after the power utility made clear its intention to destroy…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has castigated foreign countries for what he termed interference in the way the country should manage its natural resources, especially the ballooning ivory and rhino horn stockpiles. [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa revealed at the recently-held African Union and United Nations Wildlife Economy Summit in Victoria Falls that the country was sitting on stockpiles…
© OPPOSITION MDC has blamed “calculated intimidation and vote buying” for its embarrassing loss of Nyanga ward 26, a claim that Zanu PF scoffed at as a case of “sour grapes”. [GoogleAd] The ruling party’s Bisset Mapeta won the poll with 397 votes against the MDC Alliance’s Vincent Bopoto’s 236. Zanu PF is in high…
© MASVINGO High Court judge Neville Wamambo has freed MDC deputy chairperson Job “Wiwa” Sikhala on $5 000 bail. Alec Muchadehama, who is part of the legal team representing Sikhala, yesterday confirmed the development. [GoogleAd] “He (Sikhala) has been released on $5 000 bail. As part of the bail conditions, he was ordered to reside…
© WITH current Zesa outages running for 18 hours per day, mobile phone network operators have said they might be forced to switch off base stations as they face huge operational bills due to alternative power sources they have to resort to. [Adz] Operators have been forced to resort to diesel-run generators to power the…
