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ZANU PF’S losing parliamentary candidates in the August general elections are defying the party’s directive that they should return vehicles they used for campaigning and enhancing visibility. The party has directed its 73 parliamentary candidates who did not succeed in the August 23–24 general elections to return the campaign vehicles Zanu PF gave them. Speaking…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has assigned Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to oversee economic sector ministries. In a Statutory Instrument (SI), 190 of 2023, that was gazetted last Friday, Chiwenga is going to oversee the procurement and research of all the eco nomic ministries. “It is hereby notified that His Excellency the President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in terms…

THE government and its development partners are mapping an action plan in response to all anticipated El Niño weather effects. This comes amid forecasts that the country is set to be hit by a major drought this coming crop ping season, as the dire effects of climate change hit southern Africa. It also comes after…

THE government says candidates who failed to write their examinations due to heavy rains will be allowed to sit for their affected papers. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Deputy minister of Primary and Secondary Education Angeline Gata said affected learners would be accorded an opportunity to sit for their examinations. “The ministry is…

 HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira says there are nearly 20 000 teaching vacancies in the country, notwithstanding that thousands of trained educators were unemployed. Responding to enquiries by legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday on why his ministry continued to train teachers the government is not employing, Murwira said jobless graduates from…

By Nyasha KunyiswaSENIOR STAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE Zanu PF women’s league has bemoaned the low participation of women in the general harmonised elections held in August. Speaking during a meeting in Harare yesterday, Zanu PF women’s league secretary Mabel Chinomona said while the quota system was a step in the right direction, more needed to be…

Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE desperate situation facing cancer patients in Zimbabwe now requires authorities to deal with the growing dis ease as an emergency, and to introduce a national fund to combat it. So says the information and research officer for the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ), Lovemore Makurirofa, who adds that the time has…

Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw POLICE have blocked a demonstration that the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) intended to hold on Monday in Bulawayo. According to the CCC party, they wanted to air a slew of their grievances arising from disagreements over the results of the national elections held in August. In a letter dated…

By Brighton Muronzereyi and Blessings Mashaya THE Church has reiterated that dialogue, not confrontation, remains the best way to help end Zimbabwe’s decades-long myriad challenges. This comes as some opposition parties and pro-democracy groups have lined up mass protests in Ha rare today, which have caused un easiness in the capital. The secretary-general of the…