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Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER THE factions-riddled Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is facing more turbulence, after a number of the party’s legislators and councillors attended Nelson Chamisa’s charity dinner in Harare at the weekend. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — CCC’s chief whip in Parliament, Charles Moyo, put on…

VIOLENT rains destroyed schools and houses across the country, leaving 13 Chimoio Primary School teachers homeless last week. The incidents were part of a broader disaster where intense rainfall since the start of the 2025/2026 season has destroyed 452 households, including 25 schools. The chief director of the Civil Protection Unit (CPU), Nathan Nkomo, confirmed…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday challenged local authori­ties to modernise their solid waste management facilities given increasing urbanisation. Speaking in Harare while com­missioning the second batch of refuse collection equipment for Geo Pomona Waste Management Com­pany, Mnangagwa urged councils to adopt modern, sustainable waste practices to protect public health. “Solid-waste management facili­ties in all local authorities…

POLITICAL EDITOR THE Finance minis­try has revealed that numerous government bodies are defying a Treasury directive, secretly incur­ring unbudgeted debt that now threatens social service funding. Finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga disclosed this during an online discussion at the weekend, citing a case where the government earlier this year uncovered about US$60 million in unapproved,…

Tapiwa Chirume IN A worrying development, Kwekwe City Council has recorded alarming new figures of motherto-child HIV infections. Mayor Albert Zinhanga told a full council meeting recently that the city had recorded 265 new cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission last month alone. “That HIV transmission figure is not a yearly figure, it is for the…

THE country’s escalating violent crime scourge will now be met with a “fire for fire” response by fed up law enforcement agents, a top police officer has warned. Speaking in Harare at the weekend during an awards cer­emony for detectives, the director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Chrispen Charumbira, also said the success­ful retraining…

Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER FORMER opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has vowed that Zanu PF will be stopped from extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term in office to 2030. Speaking at his annual charity dinner in Harare at the weekend, Chamisa said the campaign by the ruling party to amend the country”s Constitution in this regard would…

Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER THE High Court has dismissed an application for absolution by one Engelbert Mudzimba who was demanding US$50 000 from his business partner Ben Muchenje, whom he claimed constructed below standard fowl runs for a commercial poultry production. According to court papers, Mad­zimba’s claim against Muchenje and BMJ Engineering is for…

Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER COMMUNAL farmers are yet to re­ceive sufficient farming inputs, with less than 50 percent of the required fertiliser amounts delivered by the government. This was disclosed by the minister of Agri­culture, Anxious Masuka, while addressing min­isters of State in Harare at the weekend, adding that “if push comes to shove,…