FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti said the country’s local currency will only stabilise if the authorities implement fundamental reforms which include amending some laws to make sure that the government lives within its means. This comes as the government has come under immense pressure to end the current economic turmoil which has seen the Zimbabwe…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has warned land barons across the city to desist from illegally allocating land across various suburbs, adding that the police were already investigating the unlawful invasions while demolitions were imminent. The council said the most affected suburbs by the land invasions include, Glen View, Retreat (Harare-Chitungwiza railway reservation), Budiriro, Mufakose,…
EXPERTS are adamant that Zimbabwe’s perennially unhealthy politics remains the single biggest impediment to national unity and the country’s economic development. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Institute for Strategic Thinking (Zist) policy discussion in Victoria Falls last week, the experts said not even the best economic policies, strategies and personnel would manage to extricate the country…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC), led by Nelson Chamisa, yesterday completed its parliamentary candidates selection process in Harare amid unconfirmed reports that some bigwigs had fallen by the wayside. The winning candidates, in the selection process, would represent the party in the August 23 general polls. The Daily News On Sunday visited some centres in…
FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru has been granted a brief relief after the Sheriff of the High Court recently stayed the execution of an auction that would have resulted in the sale of her farming equipment in Beatrice over a US$226 000 debt. The auction comes after the Supreme Court, in March, ordered Mujuru and…
BY RUTENDO NGARA PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) offices should be decentralised to ensure that youth are able to have access and easily raise their concerns at the nearest offices. The ZYC is the link between the government, through the Youth ministry and the youth, and one of its mandates is…
BY LAWRENCE PAGANGADeputy News Editor HE HAD been freed from jail on Friday, but the following Monday found him back in police custody awaiting trial. Brian James, who had just benefited from the presidential amnesty, was already in police custody and was being held on allegations of breaking into a house in the upmarket Borrowdale…
By Brandon Josphat CONCERNS are growing over rising cases of Covid in the country, after at least six people lost their lives to the disease this week alone. This has led Parliament to urge Vice President Chiwenga — who is also Zimbabwe’s Health and Child Care minister — to reinstate the mandatory wearing of face…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has warned malcontents bent on discrediting his party’s unconventional primaries in Harare today, by engaging in electoral malpractices such as vote-buying and busing people. Speaking on Thursday in Mbare, Harare, during a street meeting, Chamisa said his party would disqualify candidates who engage in electoral chicanery. “We…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT TEACHERS’ unions say authorities need to come up with an economic rescue package for their members urgently. This comes as the cost of living in the country continues to rise worryingly, amid an escalating Zim dollar and prices crisis. In a letter delivered to the Public Service Commission (PSC) yesterday, the Progressive…
