© TEACHERS have approached Parliament in a bid to find a breakthrough in their negotiations with government over improved pay and working conditions. [GoogleAd] This followed the collapse of direct talks with government which had hoped would pacify the teachers at last week’s indaba held in the capital. The nation’s biggest teachers’ union, the Zimbabwe…
© FORMER Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo has filed a Supreme Court application to have his appeal for passport release heard on an urgent basis before June 21 to enable him to travel because his cancer condition continues to deteriorate. [GoogleAd] Chombo’s passport was seized by an unidentified security agent on May 12 at Robert Gabriel…
© BATTLE lines have been drawn between the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC and Zanu PF as they ready to lock horns again in several electoral contests necessitated by local authorities and parliamentary by-elections that have been called — exactly a year after the July 30 disputed harmonised elections, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] Chamisa and…
© AS THE prices of basic goods continue to go nuts, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR), Denford Mutashu, has called on suppliers, supermarkets and other retailers to charge reasonable prices for their stocks. [GoogleAd] Mutashu’s call comes as long-suffering Zimbabweans are experiencing a fresh wave of steep price increases on basic…
© CHURCHES are intensifying their push for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, in a bid to de-escalate political tensions in the country and to get the two men to work together to fix Zimbabwe’s dying economy, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes as Zimbabwe is experiencing its worst…
© MDC president Nelson Chamisa, pictured, might be in a fix on how to deal with unrelenting pockets of resistance in his party’s Bulawayo structures. This comes after the party was once again caught up in violent skirmishes at the provincial offices here over the weekend where the provincial council sought to elect members to…
© ZIMBABWE Revenue and Allied Workers Trade Union (Zimratu) has lamented understaffing in some of the taxman’s departments saying workers at Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) are working under pressure due to the shortages. This comes in the wake of Zimra’s move to embark on a staff audit which may result in the laying off of some…
© The last two activists have been finally freed by the High Court following accusations that they plotted to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government after attending a workshop in Maldives. High Court judge Amy Tsanga released Sithabile Dewa and Rita Nyamupinga on $1 000 bail coupled with similar conditions to their alleged accomplices George Makoni,…
© A MASVINGO cop is demanding $600 000 damages after he was allegedly assaulted by a group of drunk boys before they turned to sexually molest his wife. The cop whose identity cannot be revealed to protect his wife wants $300 000 for pain, suffering and contumelia, respectively, from Worship Chiteure and Talent Mahanya —…
© FORMER President Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore’s defence trial has been temporarily stayed pending a High Court determination on his application for review. Chikore is jointly charged with Simba Mutimbe and are accused of unlawfully detaining Zimbabwe Airways former head of legal Bertha Zakeyo at their Chishawasha Hills office in June last year. [GoogleAd]…
