The parliamentary portfolio committee on Health and Child Care is advocating for the lowering of age reproductive health services consent to 12 years as a way of curbing the rise of new STI and HIV infections and unplanned pregnancies among minors. [GoogleAd] This comes after reports emerged that the committee has suggested lowering the age…
HARARE City Council is threatening to name and shame churches that owe council millions in unpaid rates and lease fees amounting to more than $10 million. Council corporate communications manager Michael Chideme told the Daily News on Sunday that the move was necessitated by the huge debt that the churches owe. The last time council…
Command Agriculture programme has saved the country for the past three years as it has become the biggest source of local wheat and maize, Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) has said. Speaking in Bulawayo recently at a gala exhibition dinner that was meant to showcase millers’ products and create a platform for engagement and interaction,…
Tempers rose during an MDC Alliance rally at Chisamba Grounds in Mutare over the weekend when the party’s supporters heckled secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora resulting in president Nelson Chamisa threatening to walk out of the gathering unless Mwonzora was allowed to speak. This was after supporters sympathetic to the youthful leader heckled and booed Mwonzora as…
The Supreme Court has reserved ruling in a case in which Veritas, a parliamentary and civic rights watchdog, is appealing against a decision by the High Court to dismiss its application to conduct voter education. Last year, High Court judge Owen Tagu refused to delve into the merits of Veritas’ application, arguing the organisation had brought…
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) says women in Zimbabwe are finding it hard to participate in the public sphere and seek elected public office. The organisation said it commemorated this year’s International Women’s Day on the back of regression in women representation in leadership positions at Parliamentary and local authority levels as…
Acting chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi says judicial officers are quite stretched in terms of the number of cases that they are dealing with in court. [GoogleAd] Speaking recently at the swearing-in of two magistrates — Mitchel Tinotenda Mutasa and Notebulgah Muchineripi — Mtevedzi said this was an effort to beef up magisterial manpower. He said the…
Communities in Bulawayo and its hinterland have expressed dismay over the continued deployment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers in the region. This came after the ministry of Education released names of teachers to be deployed to different parts of Zimbabwe. Most of those deployed into the Matabeleland region have Shona surnames. [GoogleAd] Neutrals believe that the…
Jostling for positions in the MDC ahead of the May 22 congress has reached a critical juncture. Vital battlegrounds such as Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare and Masvingo have been turned into ‘war zones’ of intense political contestation for positions. [GoogleAd] Nominations for the do-or-die congress are in later this month, taking the country’s largest opposition party into…
The continued clampdown and arbitrary arrest of civic leaders and opposition Members of Parliament in the aftermath of the January 14 to 16 stay-away called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to protest escalating prices will strengthen the resolve of the intended targets and their supporters, analysts contend. [GoogleAd] Police have targeted at least…
