HARD-PRESSED Zimbabweans are set to bear the brunt of incessant power outages for nearly two weeks as Zesa Holdings(Zesa) has resumed rehabilitation works at the Kariba Dam wall. In a statement last night, Zesa said it is set to complete the rehabilitation works on January 25. “Zesa Holdings would like to advise its valued stakeholders…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE government will, with immediate effect, reopen Mupedzanhamo and Shawasha informal markets in Harare to accommodate vendors as the city moves to implement the smart cities concept, Harare Provincial Affairs minister Oliver Chidawu, has said. This comes after Harare City Council demolished illegal structures in Mbare last weekend, leaving vendors with no places to…
Hazel Marimbiza IN WHAT may later turn out to be a big blow for Bulawayo residents, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has warned that they risk having fewer parliamentary seats due to their ongoing disengagement from key electoral processes. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zec provincial officer for Bulawayo, Innocent Ncube, said the national elections management…
A REGIONAL magistrate will today rule on an application for exception by Harare City town planner Priscilla Charumbira accused of supervising the planning and subdivision of three hectares of land from recreational to commercial stands without government approval. Charumbira represented by Lovemore Madhuku is facing criminal abuse of office allegations, alternatively fraud, and has applied…
IN A surprise move, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, sacked one of his perceived close allies, Owen “Mudha” Ncube, yesterday for “inappropriate” conduct for a Cabinet minister. This comes after the Daily News reported in its Monday edition that the controversial former State Security minister had been linked to chaos which erupted at a Zanu PF provincial meeting…
ZIMBABWE’s senior men’s soccer team, the Warriors, put on a brave show and came agonisingly close to earning a vital point against…
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) president Lovemore Madhuku yesterday said the country should focus on electoral reforms ahead of the fast-approaching 2023 polls. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week decreed that 28 parliamentary by-elections be held on March 26. Addressing a press conference in Harare, Madhuku said the government should have prioritised electoral reforms…
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba says law salaries are crippling the justice delivery system in the country and called on the government to review remuneration for public sector workers regularly. In his State of the Judiciary Address, which marked the official opening of the 2022 legal year yesterday, Justice Malaba said members of the judicial service,…
ZANU PF continues to reel from its seemingly intractable factional wars around the country, a fortnight after the former liberation movement installed its new team of provincial chairpersons. The ugly infighting is not sparing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s home province of Midlands, which witnessed violence at the weekend as the region attempted to complete the election…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has invited both foreign and local observers to monitor the country’s upcoming Parliamentary and council by-elections. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa decreed that the by-elections will be held on Saturday March 26. “ZEC hereby invites applications from observers and the media for accreditation to observe by-elections in…
