HARARE – The late vice president Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo’s family claims that it had found a potential investor for the Ekusileni hospital project but the taskforce managing the project turned down the offer. The visionary leader’s son Sibangilizwe Nkomo told Daily News yesterday that they had settled for Clinix Health Group from South Africa but…
HARARE – Delta Corporation has constructed two classroom blocks with two fully furnished classrooms each and a 10-hole toilet block at Fairview Primary School in Matabeleland South Province. The initiative, worth $60 000, is part of Delta’s Schools Infrastructure Programme under which it works collaboratively with chosen communities to construct learning facilities at one or…
HARARE – Many people have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stick to his earlier undertaking to publish the findings of the probe that looked into the August 1 post-election killings in Harare. This comes after presidential spokesperson George Charamba said yesterday that Mnangagwa had no obligation to make public the findings of the Commission of…
HARARE – MDC president Nelson Chamisa said they aim to plant two million trees annually until 2026 and even beyond. Chamisa said this in Norton on Saturday when he went on to plant what he termed “the New Zimbabwe Democracy tree” adding his party had taken time to commemorate and be part of a national…
HARARE – Things are going from bad to worse in Zimbabwe – with yesterday’s devastating strike by doctors at the country’s public hospitals being the latest problem to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s beleaguered government. The strike has come on top of worsening foreign currency, fuel and medicines shortages in the country, as well as ever-rising…
HARARE – The Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry ministry has embarked on a nation-wide clean-up campaign which will officially begin tomorrow. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to preside over the official launch of the campaign that will take place at Machipisa, Highfield in Harare. According to a statement published by the Environmental Management Agency (Ema),…
HARARE – War veterans have moved a motion ahead of the Zanu PF annual national people’s conference to have the ruling party use its supermajority in parliament to raise the minimum age for presidential aspirants from the current 40 years to 52. Widely seen as targeted at MDC Alliance presidential candidate in the just-ended harmonised…
HARARE – The president of a United Nations-led multi-million-dollar investment fund, Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo yesterday said his organisation will be offering Zimbabwe grants and low-interest loans to improve food and nutrition security, provide employment opportunities for rural youth, and reduce poverty in its programming cycle starting next year up to 2021. Houngbo, the president of…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has proposed to increase the water tariff by an estimated 19 percent while also raising clamping, tow-away and storage charges by 100 percent. Presenting the 2019 budget yesterday, finance and development committee chairperson Luckson Mukunguma said the country’s economic environment was volatile and made it difficult for the city…
HARARE – Econet Group’s pay television service, Kwese Television (Private) Limited, popularly known as Kwese TV, has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel its business partner Dr Dish (Private) Limited (Dr Dish) to settle a $634 400 loan which was advanced to the firm for the payment of licence fees in Zimbabwe….
