HARARE – Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo, is relieved that the year 2018 is finally coming to an end. Last week, the former chief executive officer of Chitungwiza Hospital narrated how he “landed” in a cholera outbreak when he was appointed to the post in September. Moyo recalled the horror of seeing patients…
HARARE – Local beers and soft drinks are among some of the products that have disappeared from supermarkets’ shelves thereby depriving embattled Zimbabweans of the things they had become accustomed to during the festive holidays. A survey by the Daily News over the weekend revealed that most retail outlets have run out of local beer…
HARARE – A flurry of behind-the-scenes consultations that took place before the August 1 army killings has lifted the lid on who actually authorised the military deployments that quelled demonstrations which rocked the capital city on that fateful day. Correspondence attached to the recently published Commission of Inquiry final report on the August 1 killing…
HARARE – A flurry of behind-the-scenes consultations that took place before the August 1 army killings has lifted the lid on who actually authorised the military deployments that quelled demonstrations which rocked the capital city on that fateful day. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – In one of its rare sittings, last week legislators held a marathon 12-hour National Budget debate on Thursday as they could only adjourn sitting early Friday morning. The National Assembly usually starts around 14:00 hours before adjourning around 17:00 hours but for Thursday it was business unusual as the august house adjourned around…
HARARE – Troubled escalating deductions on their payslips in an unfavourable economic environment, teachers have handed President Emmerson Mnangagwa a list of 16 loan sharks whom they allege are swindling them. In their written submissions, the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) led by Takavafira Zhou last week alleged that there might be some government…
HARARE – Three young Zimbabweans — Shantel Marekera, Itai Muzhingi and Tatenda Magetsi — will study at Oxford University next year under the 2019 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholarship. The scholarship fund, which covers tuition and living expenses in Oxford, selected the three from a shortlist of eight. The other students on the shortlist considered by the…
HARARE – All Zimbabwean medical aid societies must introduce real time payments before the end of the first quarter next year, Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has said. Moyo has already communicated this position to all medical aid societies. “The vision and mission for government is for all medical aid societies to introduce…
HARARE – Chitungwiza Municipality has given illegal settlers a one-month ultimatum to not only vacate their properties but to also rehabilitate the land around Nyatsime area to its original condition. Town clerk George Makunde said the construction of illegal structures in the Nyatsime cemetery area and on land reserved for institutions such as schools should…
HARARE – Government has undertaken to pay severance packages as well as offering entrepreneurial skills to over 3 700 national youth service workers fired from the civil service by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube. Ncube cut loose the youths, mostly drawn from the controversial national youth service (green bombers) to slash the wage bill as part…
