Brandon Josphat and Rutendo Ngara ZESA subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), will begin the final synchronisation test of Hwange’s new 300 megawatt Unit 7 today. This comes amid expectations that once this is done successfully, the country’s debilitating power crisis will be eased significantly. There is even more optimism that Zimbabwe’s brutal power cuts…
A POLICE officer, who is on suspension after he was allegedly found in unlawful possession of a pangolin, has been arrested after he was implicated as being part of a gang that broke into a house in Belvedere, Harare, last month and made off with US$7 650. Walter Chanhuwa of ZRP Highfield, together with his alleged…
ZANU PF’s oversubscribed internal elections could portend a disastrous performance by the opposition in the country’s fast-approaching national polls, political analysts have warned. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said it was “significant” that so many people from all walks of life were openly interested in representing the ruling party in…
BY YVONNE NCUBEin BULAWAYO THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has expressed its commitment to assist the youth to grow by offering them flexible financial services that respond to the nature of their challenges. This was revealed yesterday by RBZ principal banking examiner David Zahwe during a financial literacy public lecture which drew students from…
By RUTENDO NGARA ZIMBABWE has called for a united front of African countries that grow tobacco to stop the intended ban on the marketing of the golden leaf through the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty. The FCTC treaty is the first global health treaty that was signed in 2003…
By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is working on setting aside at least 40 percent of the land in the city for high rise buildings in a move aimed at curbing sprawling of suburbs while also saving the limited urban space. Speaking during a stakeholder consultative meeting yesterday, town planning officer…
A COALITION of six fringe opposition parties, which are in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), have formed a coalition to contest in the forthcoming harmonised elections slated for later this year. Trust Chikohora, who is the leader of the opposition Coalition for Democrats (CODE) would lead the new alliance, called the Zimbabwe Coalition for Peace…
AS EXPECTED, Zanu PF has deferred its internal polls which were scheduled for this weekend, to allow the party enough time to vet the slew of CVs submitted by people from all walks of life aspiring to represent it in this year’s crunch elections. In this regard, the party’s politburo will meet in Harare on…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has extended its voter registration blitz by five days. This is to allow more prospective voters to register for the country’s beckoning crunch national elections. This comes after the elections management body’s current blitz was last week disrupted by power cuts and bad weather.Zec is targeting to register more than…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, has granted an order declaring that the clause used by the Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition MDC’s congress to expel its vice president, Elias Mudzuri, on January 21, 2023 is constitutionally invalid. Clause 11 of the party’s constitution provides that the outfit’s members who take matters to the court and the…
