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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) yesterday met with captains of industry and commerce in the capital Harare, lodging an appeal for assistance in the rehabilitation of more than a hundred schools ravaged by Cyclone Idai in Manicaland, Masvingo and Mashonaland East. [GoogleAd] The meeting which attracted key industry players and churches such as businessman Shingi Munyeza,…

HARARE City Council has announced plans to bolster collection of rentals from market traders for the first time in 10 years. This comes after revelations that market traders have not been paying anything to the city since the hyperinflation period more than a decade ago. [GoogleAd] Speaking at a recent workshop in Kadoma, district manager…

LAND barons are illegally selling residential stands at Golden Quarry dumpsite, with the Harare City Council warning prospective home buyers that the area is an industrial garbage dumpsite that will never be used for real estate. [GoogleAd] Harare City Council spokesperson Michael Chideme told the Daily News that anyone who buys the stands will be…

EVERY year, Zimbabweans benefit from scores of scholarships offered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). This was revealed last Tuesday at a Harare hotel by Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Rungsung Masakui during ICCR foundation day celebrations held annually to honour ICCR alumni. [GoogleAd] “Today is the day we honour ICCR alumni and I…

WATER rationing in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo has been halted ahead of the opening of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). [GoogleAd] The ZITF, to be opened this year by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, is an annual multi-national expo which provides a convenient trade hub for the region, and welcomes both trade and…

Econet Wireless has commissioned a 466KW solar power plant at its Willowvale industrial complex in Harare, the largest commercial and industrial carport and roof mount installation of its kind to be deployed in the country.  The solar plant was engineered and designed by Distributed Power Africa (DPA), Econet’s solar business in line with the company’s…

FORMER president Robert Mugabe, pictured, could make a sensational return to Zanu PF — one-and-a-half years after the frail nonagenarian was swept from power by a military coup — if the party’s overtures to him yield positive results, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reaching out to many…

WEEKS after holding a meeting with key stakeholders on the Gukurahundi massacres of the early to mid 1980s, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday moved to deal with the highly-emotive issue — saying the government would okay the exhumation and reburial of thousands of people who died during that dark era. Apart from reburying the victims…

THE Health and Child Care ministry has procured drugs worth RTGS$80 million after stitching a partnership with local companies. The forex-parched ministry made arrangements with local companies to get medical supplies and pay them through RTGS dollars in a desperate bid to address critical medicine shortages in hospitals. [GoogleAd] Companies agreed to the partnership after…