HARARE – Teachers will be taking to the streets on Friday to protest against government’s offer of increasing their salaries by 15 percent, saying the effort fell far too short of their expectations. Government had initially offered a 10 percent increase before upping the figure to 15 percent, with effect from July 1, following a…
HARARE – Britain has been forced to come clean on allegations that it is backing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to win the forthcoming polls a week after MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had broken with diplomatic etiquette by cautioning Number 10 Downing Street against cosying-up with the ruling Zanu PF party. [Adz]
HARARE – One of two Zanu PF activists who allegedly murdered a tractor driver at the height of the country’s bloody land reform programme is seeking to be set free, 17 years after the alleged incident took place. Dabson Zhuwao and his accomplice Tapiwa Chimbandi were initially arrested in 2001 on culpable homicide charges and…
HARARE – The shortage of fuel in Harare and other parts of the country has been caused by high demand of the commodity, which is putting pressure on prices, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has said. Zera chief executive officer (CEO), Gloria Magombo, told the Daily News yesterday that suppliers were finding it difficult…
HARARE – Britain has been forced to come clean on allegations that it is backing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to win the forthcoming polls a week after MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had broken with diplomatic etiquette by cautioning Number 10 Downing Street against cosying-up with the ruling Zanu PF party. Chamisa, who was on…
HARARE – Several service stations in the capital and elsewhere have run out of fuel, amid conflicting explanations from the authorities and industry players as to the source of the shortages. [Adz]
HARARE – Former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe has defended Chinese businessman Sam Pa, arguing he had no criminal record when they engaged him for a business partnership. Sam Pa provided funding and material to the CIO in return for access to Zimbabwe’s diamond, cotton and property sectors. One CIO document put this…
HARARE – Long-serving Harare West MP, Jessie Majome, has announced that she will contest the impending national elections as an independent candidate after withdrawing from the MDC primary elections. Majome was set to slug it out with microbiologist and former student leader Joanna Mamombe in the primaries, but withdrew at the last minute citing irregularities….
HARARE – Government has commenced the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccinations which are targeting 800 000 girls as part of its concerted effort to fight cervical cancer. The vaccine which was first introduced in 2014 and piloted in Beitbridge and Marondera targets girls between the ages of 10 and 14. HPV causes most cervical cancers,…
HARARE – Doctors could be headed for another showdown with government after the Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors’ Association (ZHDA) claimed on Sunday that their on-call allowances awarded a month ago following a protracted 30-day-long strike had been slashed. In a statement issued on Sunday, Mxolisi Ngwenya, spokesperson for the ZHDA, expressed outrage that the Health Services…
