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By Brandon Josphat  josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT secondary schools will start offering various professional courses to learners from today, in a bid to equip students with key skills. This comes after the Cabinet approved the ‘Heritage-Based Education Curriculum’ in March this year, which seeks to foster critical thinking, innovation, creativity and problem solving among learners. In a…

Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said the introduction of the new Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency will affect national budgetary allocations disbursements although the situation will improve soon. This comes amid complaints by various government departments that they were getting their votes from the National Budget late, a development that hindered them from…

Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE National Prosecuting Authority has started receiving assets from abroad after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) deemed them proceeds of graft. Speaking during a capacity workshop on financial investigations and assets recovery in Harare yesterday, Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo said it was the responsibility of law enforcement agents to investigate stolen properties…

SEVERAL Mutero High School students were yesterday hospitalised after a kombi they were travelling in going back to school in Gutu was involved in an accident. The students were travelling back to school for the beginning of this year’s second term today. The police confirmed the road traffic accident saying the victims were hospitalised at…

By Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa would significantly enhance his legacy and also put the country on a solid foundation for growth if he were to leave behind a united nation when he leaves office. So say political analysts, who reiterated to the Daily News yesterday that national unity and dialogue remained…

By Brandon Josphat UNDER pressure authorities have now moved to announce new fuel prices in both the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) and US dollars. This comes as the government is stepping up its efforts to promote the wider use of the country’s generally well received new currency. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said at the…

By Masimba Makwembere and Bryn Matongo THE government and representatives of civil servants have agreed to regularly engage in dialogue to promote progressive collaboration when it comes to welfare issues. In a joint statement after their meeting recently, the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions said the meeting…

By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw PARLIAMENT will start public hearings across the country today to gather citizens’ views on the proposed abolishment of the death penalty. This comes as the Cabinet in February this year approved a Private Member’s Bill which, if passed, would outlaw capital punishment with at least 63 inmates currently on death row….

By Rutendo Ngara THREE police officers were arrested for allegedly robbing US$22 000 from auditors who had collected the money from a Harare company, Veterinary Services Distributors, branches in Borrowdale and Westgate. The robbery allegedly took place last month. Jonathan Dokwani, 34, Gift Pfirwe, 37, and Isaac Chako, 34, allegedly connived with five other accomplices…

ZIMBABWE’s concerted engagement and re-engagement drive of the past seven years has put the country firmly on track to improve its relations with the West and to lift the lives of its people. So says the ruling Zanu PF, which has welcomed the escalating thawing of Zimbabwe’s frosty relations with Western powers — including the…