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Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmuronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has so far purchased grain worth $17 billion from farmers to take the country’s maize stocks to 435 489 metric tonnes as of last week on Thursday while traditional grains were at 64 716 metric tonnes. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said…

THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says it has begun to witness welcome reductions in the prices of some basic goods — including cooking oil and flour — on the back of falling month-on-month inflation and the easing foreign currency parallel market. At the same time, many Zimbabweans who spoke to the Daily News yesterday,…

ZENGEZA West MP Job Sikhala has launched a fresh bail bid in a case in which he is accused of obstruction of justice. Sikhala is alleged to have recorded a video and uploaded it online while addressing mourners at one Moreblessing Ali’s funeral, claiming that she had been murdered by Zanu PF supporters, which the…

THE country’s agriculture sector has grown by 36 percent this year to reach US$8.1 billion as the country is on track to transform the sector. Speaking to the media in Harare yesterday during the handover of riding kits to extension workers, permanent secretary in the ministry of Agriculture, John Bhasera said the country managed to…

Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw TEACHERS unions say failure by the government to address their salaries grievances will force them to go on industrial action as schools open next week. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, union leaders concurred that industrial action was imminent and that they were working on the form of their action. Zimbabwe Teachers Association…

THE results of recent by-elections show that opposition parties have their work cut out for them if they are to penetrate Zanu PF’s rural strongholds ahead of next year’s crunch elections, analysts say. This comes after Zanu PF comfortably defended the Gokwe Kabuyuni constituency against the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) at the weekend, in…

Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has embarked on a countrywide research initiative to establish conflict drivers that are peculiar to each province ahead of the general elections next year. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, NPRC spokesperson Obert Gutu said the research titled ‘Social Cohesion Research Index’, set to commence…

IT GIVES us little pleasure to remind those political leaders and their social media goons who criticised the Daily News over the past three years for encouraging inclusive national dialogue that ‘we told you so’. This is so because the chickens have now come home to roost for these short-sighted people, with recent political developments…