HARARE – Glen View-based Goodness and Mercy Ministries (GMM) has moved to work with authorities in an effort to contain the spread of cholera in the high-density suburb. Glen View and Budiriro have emerged as the epi-centre of the highly-contagious diarrheal disease that has so far claimed over 30 lives in Harare alone, although the…
HARARE – Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu sits down for a wide-ranging interview with the Daily on Sunday’s Mugove Tafirenyika. Find below excerpts of the interview. Q: Zanu PF has introduced a new model where senior party officials like you are domiciled here at the headquarters. Is the party ready for such radical…
BULAWAYO – The Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has intervened in a mine ownership wrangle after senior Zanu PF officials and officials from the Mines ministry attempted to wrestle a gold mine from Chief Sigodo in Silobela. The officials include Silobela Zanu PF legislator Mthokozisi Manoki Mpofu, Nelson Munyanguri, Midlands provincial mining director Ernest Mgandani, a…
HARARE – Motorists in Zimbabwe queued for hours yesterday to try to buy petrol as filling stations ran dry due to a crisis that the government blamed on panic buying. Several petrol stations visited by the Daily News on Sunday teams around the country had run out of petrol while motorists waited in long queues…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi (pictured) talks to the Daily News on Sunday’s Tendayi Madhomu about the state of the correctional facilities in Zimbabwe. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: Please, may you shed some light on the Prisoners Exchange Programme deal signed between Zimbabwe and China. A:…
HARARE – Having long written off Zimbabwe as one of the world’s least appealing economies, international investors are beginning to show signs of interest in Zimbabwe, newly appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Zimbabwean officials met with investors in New York in search of cash that would clear about $1,8 billion in arrears with…
HARARE – Some rogue police officers went on the rampage in Harare at the weekend — firing tear gas indiscriminately at commuters omnibus ranks before savagely assaulting revellers at night clubs. In the process, they re-ignited the ugly memories of the savage State brutality that was witnessed on a daily basis during the despotic rule…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) said they will deploy water bowsers and tanks to parts of the city which are facing water cuts this weekend. Harare mayor Herbert Gomba said they are doing this to avert the spread of cholera. “I have directed that they must make sure that water should be available this…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa’s MDC is strengthening measures to enforce gender parity in the party’s leadership rings, as evidenced recently in Victoria Falls where the elected mayor stepped down to pave way for a female contestant. Chamisa ordered Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dlamini to step down and make way for Margaret Varley, whose nomination had…
HARARE – Opposition parties have slammed government for deploying disproportionate force to drive out vendors from the streets of Harare. In the wake of the declaration of a state of emergency after a cholera outbreak in the capital that has so far killed over 30 people, government invoked the Public Health Act, banning all public…
