BUSINESS and ordinary consumers are reeling under worsening power cuts as Zesa has in recent days enforced punishing 15-hour daily outages across the country due to low power generation. According to daily updates by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), a Zesa subsidiary, the power utility on Wednesday produced 361 megawatts (MW) and 810MW yesterday against…
By Ketty Nyoni INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa has urged women to lead by example and exercise their right to vote regardless of which party they support as this year’s elections fast approach. Addressing female journalists at the Zimbabwe Wan-IFRA Women in News Alums skills Building and Networking Conference held in Harare yesterday, Mutsvangwa said there…
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is escalating its engagements with political parties, the police and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to ensure that peace prevails before, during and after this year’s national polls. Speaking in Harare yesterday, during a meeting with Zanu PF, the MDC, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), the police…
By Brandon Josphat ZANU PF will conduct its primary polls on Saturday to elect its parliamentary and council elections candidates for this year’s harmonised polls. The primaries were postponed last week after thousands of would-be MPs and councillors submitted their curriculum vitae (CVs) to contest in the polls initially pencilled for last Saturday. Zanu PF’s…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged Harare residents to vote wisely in this year’s general elections by voting for Zanu PF. He was addressing hundreds of people during the official opening of FBC Building Society’s Fontaine Ridge housing project in Harare where he added there was a need for citizens to rely on…
By Brandon Josphat THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has ordered a probe into allegations of money laundering against businessman Ewan Macmillan and preacher Uebert Mudzanire, popularly known as Uebert Angel. This comes after the two men were said to have featured prominently in a documentary by global broadcaster, Al Jazeera, in which they allegedly…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says the power outages being experienced in the country and the vandalism of its water pumps have drastically worsened the water supply situation in the city before appealing to well-wishers to assist in rectifying the situation. This comes as most suburbs in Bulawayo have gone for more than three weeks without…
IT WILL be a case of the old versus the new in Zanu PF’s upcoming primaries, after the ruling party’s politburo gave the green light to all its hitherto out of favour former heavyweights to participate in the crunch internal polls. This will see many of the former party bigwigs — who include ex-Cabinet ministers…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala has accused the police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of doctoring a video they tendered in court as evidence against the accused. The opposition politician is on trial after he allegedly posted a video on social media in 2022 and made claims that CCC activist…
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has launched a corruption tracker application, which is part of an initiative to ensure citizens demand transparency and accountability from public officials by reporting suspected corruption cases. The mobile application is called CitizenApp. Zimcodd board chairperson Rosewita Katsande told the Daily News yesterday, that the application will…
