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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday made an impassioned call to all Zimbabweans to set aside their political differences and work together to build the country, the Daily News reports. At the same time, the 78-year-old Zanu PF leader proposed a raft of new legal instruments to deal with Zimbabwe’s detractors and to stem child abuse. All…

HARARE City Council (HCC) yesterday announced the temporary shutdown of the Morton Jaffray water treatment Plant after running out of key chemicals — leaving hundreds of thousands of the capital city’s residents facing a dry weekend, the Daily News reports. The closure of the plant comes as the city is owed nearly $1 billion dollars…

A SHOWDOWN is looming between health workers and the government after the Health ministry banned flexi-hours which will see nurses working everyday instead of selected days per week. In a letter to all hospital chief executive officers and provincial medical directors, permanent secretary in the Health ministry Jasper Chimedza said flexi-hours were giving more problems…

THE Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance leadership in Harare province is sweating over the turmoil that has engulfed party structures in the capital with accusations and counter-accusations of defections to Thokozani Khupe’s MDC. This comes as the MDC has been consumed by its senseless ructions ever since its muchloved founding father Morgan Tsvangirai died from…

ZANU PF stalwart Tshinga Dube has warned that the ugly factionalism and succession wars plaguing the ruling party are derailing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s efforts to resolve the country’s decades-long political and economic challenges. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday, the former Cabinet minister said it was imperative that Zanu PF bigwigs ended their…

FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government’s decision to compensate white former commercial farmers has eased the country’s international engagement and re-engagement efforts. This comes as the government recently signed a US$3,5 billion Global Compensation Agreement (GCA) with white former commercial farmers while also announcing that indigenous farmers who lost their land while…

  HOSTILITIES in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are escalating with each passing day amid complaints that its elections directorate approved unqualified candidates to contest the Highfield West primary election last Sunday, the Daily News reports. This comes as the party’s leadership stands accused of overlooking the alliance agreement which allows the group that came with one…

THE South Korean embassy in Zimbabwe, in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Indian embassy yesterday donated coronavirus (Covid-19) medical supplies and consumables worth a combined US$650 000, the Daily News reports. This comes as a major boost to the country’s fight against the deadly pandemic. Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 cases reached 8 159, with 7…

ZANU PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party’s parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant cheating, the Daily News reports. This comes after Harare province held its primary elections on the weekend of October 10 to 11, following…