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BY BRANDON JOSPHAT ZANU PF has reiterated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa won’t be contested at the ruling party’s elective congress that will be held in Harare from Wednesday to Saturday this week. Speaking last week on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa said Mnangagwa…

THE ruling Zanu PF party will this week hold its long-awaited elective congress amid murmurs that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be challenged. Our Group Editor–in-Chief Guthrie Munyuki (GM) sat down with the ruling party spokesperson, Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa (CM), on fast growing independent commercial television station, 3Ktv, popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, where…

By Ketty Nyoni FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says as the government works towards reforming the economy, the use of the multicurrency system remains the best option. Giving an overview of the performance of the 2022 National Budget and the 2023 revenue and expenditure targets at the 2023 pre-budget briefing seminar in Harare on Friday, Ncube…

By Hazel Marimbiza THE United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) says more effort is needed to equip children with basic education, as most are still deprived of the opportunity to attend school. This comes after Zimbabwe was part of the nations which attended the recent Transforming Education Summit in New York, which called for all…

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga says the deep polarisation and national fixation with politics in the country needs to end to move Zimbabwe forward. Speaking in Parliament earlier this week, Chiwenga said it was time that Zimbabweans buried their political differences and united to develop the country — adding that development needed to take precedence over…

By Brighton Muronzereyi THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has threatened to de-register schools and centres which are being implicated in the leakage of “O”Level examination papers. Zimsec yesterday said it was currently probing the leakages of the papers.“It is emphasised that the council has the mandate to de-register schools and centres that are caught…

By Rutendo Ngara GOVERNMENT yesterday said it has stocked enough drugs to cure livestock diseases associated with the rainy season. Speaking to the Daily News, Agriculture ministry chief director in the department of veterinary services, Josphat Nyika said the government wanted to ensure that farmers would not lose their livestock during the rainy season.“We are…

THE United Nations (UN), with funding from the embassy of Ireland, has rolled out prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) projects countrywide targeting communities who have been receiving relief and development assistance from its various entities. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, UN Zimbabwe communication specialist Sirak Gebrehiwot said the projects were…