HARARE – Providing free health care to patients will only cripple the already cash-strapped councils that often run out of drugs due to limited funding and are behind on paying their workers, local authorities have claimed. According to a report titled “Cities in Distress Municipal Budgeting and Financial Management Survey”, councils are bleeding their coffers…
HARARE – The country’s food security is under threat this year amid revelations that government is facing a critical shortage of foreign currency which is required for Zimbabwe’s main agro-import substitution programme — Command Agriculture. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has placed the programme as one of its key policies towards reducing an unsustainable import bill,…
BULAWAYO – Former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko’s Choppies empire is falling apart after his son Siqokoqela, 40, was yesterday dragged to court for defrauding the shop of over $51 000. This comes after Siqokoqela’s wife Nomagugu, 36 was also dragged to court on almost similar charges by Botswana-based Choppies group chief executive officer Ottapathu Ramachandran….
HARARE – Jockeying for Cabinet posts is turning nasty, with some of those eyeing positions in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration resorting to a vicious propaganda campaign to undermine other contenders for the appointments. With Mnangagwa expected to announce his new Cabinet anytime following his inauguration last Sunday, the Daily News can report that the jostling…
HARARE – Civic society organisations are not convinced that the commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa will do a thorough job, citing alleged political bias on the part of some of its members. The organisations, which include the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) are equally concerned with the limiting terms of reference…
BULAWAYO – There was chaos here yesterday at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected councillors after one of them, Arnold Batirai of ward 24, decided to take oath of office in Shona. While all the 28 councillors took their oaths of loyalty and office before Chamber secretary Sikhangele Zhou and Town Clerk Christopher Dube in…
HARARE – The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s commission of inquiry into the politically-motivated violence of August 1 that led to the deaths of at least six civilians. On Wednesday, Mnangagwa set up a commission of inquiry into the mayhem, but concerns have been raised over the terms of reference guiding its…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, is going ahead with his rally scheduled for Kwekwe on Sunday, his first since he lost the July 30 plebiscite to President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu PF. Chamisa notified the police about the rally as is required by the law, but the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) refused to…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, is going ahead with his rally scheduled for Kwekwe on Sunday, his first since he lost the July 30 plebiscite to President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zanu PF. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – The change in government in Zimbabwe is inspiring hope among some white farmers, nearly two decades after the start of the sometimes-violent land reform programme, a news report says. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has ruled out reversing land reform, but has vowed to put an end to land invasions and to give white…
