HUMANITARIAN agency USAid has provided US$1,5 million to Care Zimbabwe to support early recovery of 47 000 people suffering from the effects…
A CHEGUTU man, Josiah Garamukanwa, 77, has been arrested for allegedly deliberately setting the Chegutu District Lands Offices on fire on Monday. Upon inquiring at the offices on the status of his previous application for land, it is alleged that the septuagenarian poured petrol he had carried with him in the corridor before setting it…
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Jeffrey Muvundusi and Blessings Mashaya RECALLED MDC legislators are pushing to be allowed to participate in pending by-elections despite their leaders threatening to boycott the special polls pencilled for early next year. This has created serious differences in the Nelson Chamisa-led faction, to the extent that the group has now been forced to put the…
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Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE government is convinced that it will soon clear the current passport and national identity (ID) cards backlog after paying for the raw materials to produce the important documents. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Home Affairs in the capital yesterday, Home Affairs ministry permanent secretary Aaron Nhepera said they had paid…
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TOILING Zimbabweans want Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to carry through his promise to give them a happy festive season this year when he presents the national budget tomorrow. This comes after Ncube recently hinted that the budget would address the needs of the poor and lowly-income earners through tax reliefs. The secretary-general of the Zimbabwe…
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INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government has made great strides in ensuring the enjoyment of civil and political rights in the country. Speaking to journalists in the capital after a Cabinet meeting, Mutsvangwa said ministers had approved Zimbabwe’s combined second to 11th periodic report under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights…
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Melisa Chatikobo ZIMBABWE is facing a shortage of goat meat in urban areas with rural farmers now working to cover the deficit. The country has a herd of four million goats and is targeting to grow it to six million by 2025. Team leader of the Value Chain Alliance for Livestock Upgrading and Empowerment, Newton…
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again warned that authorities will crack down mercilessly on all perpetrators of violence and chaos ahead of the country’s impending elections. Speaking in Harare yesterday at the burial of the amiable late former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo, at the National Heroes Acre, Mnangagwa said the…
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CIVIL servants yesterday insisted on both US$ bonuses and salaries when they met with government representatives during a National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting in Harare. Speaking to the Daily News after the meeting, Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) secretary-general, David Dzatsunga , said while the government had only come to the meeting prepared…
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Melisa Chatikobo THE Agriculture ministry in partnership with private companies will next year avail US$5 million to acquire farming machinery for communal farmers under the Smallholder Mechanisation Programme. This comes as small scale farmers are facing a huge challenge in acquiring planters and other farming machinery which is expensive. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the…
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