Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ CIVIL servants have demanded full United States (US) dollar salaries after the government on Wednesday awarded them a US$75 Covid-19 allowance and a 50 percent salary increment. Workers yesterday told the Daily News they were not consulted on the new salary structure, even though it was part of…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance youth leaders — Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova — have said their arrest over falsifying abduction was meant to cover up their alleged abduction and torture at the hands of suspected security agents, the Daily News reports. This was detailed in a bail…
Blessings Mashaya The Ministry of Health has said Zimbabwe today confirmed 62 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) recording 463 cases to date which include 63 recoveries and four (4) deaths, the Daily News reports. The latest cases were returnees from South Africa (24), United States of America (5), Zambia (4), Botswana (3), Lesotho (2) and 20…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️ IN A development which signals the effective and official re-dollarisation of the local economy, under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, yesterday awarded restive government workers and pensioners US dollar allowances, the Daily News reports. The long overdue move comes as the country’s battered economy is fast approaching the horrors…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ AS ZIMBABWE’S political and economic crises continue to deepen, Nelson Chamisa says the ball is in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s court to initiate sincere and inclusive national dialogue to help resolve the country’s myriad challenges. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa’s spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda also reiterated the MDC Alliance leader’s…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ©️ ZENGEZA West legislator Job Sikhala, pictured, yesterday came out guns blazing in Parliament demanding Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to provide him with evidence of his involvement in an alleged coup plot. This comes after security chiefs last week named him on a list of people who were…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zwTHE government is pushing for opening of schools for the June examinations, arguing that it is prepared to implement measures to fight the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), the Daily News reports. This comes as eight teacher unions represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights’ Sarudzayi Njerere last week filed an urgent…
GOVERNMENT has with effect from June increased civil servants’ salaries by 50 percent, the Daily News reports. In addition, all civil servants will be paid a flat, non-taxable, Covid-19 allowance US$75 per month, while government pensioners will be paid a flat, non- taxable, Covid-19 allowance of US$30 per month. The Finance Ministry further advised all…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️ DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa, pictured, says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country’s worsening political and economic crises, the Daily News reports. This comes as the church has resuscitated its push for…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw THE battle to control the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, formerly Harvest House, has taken a new twist after the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-Alliance petitioned High Court registrar Donald Ndirowei complaining about the party’s interim leader Thozani Khupe’s decision to hold a press conference at the party headquarters despite a pending…
