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  THE ongoing dramatic attempts by MDC youths to end the party’s wars suffered a potentially fatal blow yesterday after Nelson Chamisa pooh-poohed the need to participate in intra-party unity talks. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the MDC Alliance leader also said he had nothing to do with this week’s seizure of the party’s…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged all Zimbabweans to help him return the country to its yester-year levels of high farm productivity, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe is bidding to regain its breadbasket status within the region, following decades of vast swathes of land previously owned by white commercial farmers lying untended in the country….

PARLIAMENT’S portfolio committee on Local Government has expressed dismay over the state of service delivery by local authorities countrywide, the Daily News reports. According to a report presented in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the committee conducted inquiries in Binga, Hwange, Victoria Falls, Bulawayo, Kadoma, Chegutu and Zvimba from March 2, holding meetings with local…

THE government has published a school calendar which will see the last term of this year ending seven days before the Christmas holiday. This comes as schools reopened for examination candidates from mid this month with other grades set to resume classes in the next few weeks in two phases. According to the government, the…

AFTER years of engaging in futile internal wars, MDC leaders now appear ready to ditch their suicidal factional battles and work together in the interest of the party, the Daily News reports. Yesterday, the party’s interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe held a hastily-arranged meeting of its standing committee in Harare, which officials said was…

ANALYSTS and rights groups have advised MDC leaders to beware after authorities said the party was linked to a plot aimed at overthrowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the government from power, the Daily News reports. This comes a few weeks after authorities thwarted the July 31 anti-government mass demonstrations — amid accusations by rights groups…

TEACHERS’ unions have demanded to meet government in order to resolve the current impasse between the two parties. This comes as most teachers across the country boycotted the reopening of public schools on Monday, protesting against the failure by the government to test them for the lethal coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and poor remuneration. Amalgamated Rural…

FORMER Zimbabwe Revenue Authority commissioner-general Gershem Pasi facing criminal abuse of office allegations has been temporarily freed by the court after it granted his application for refusal of further remand. Pasi was accused of engaging a third party in the acquisition of an Information Management System (IMS), prejudicing Zimra of over US$11 million. The State…

MDC youths appeared fed up yesterday with the main opposition’s senseless wars, after they seized the party’s iconic national headquarters in Harare amid chaotic scenes — before vowing to force dialogue between Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa, the Daily News reports. In addition to commandeering Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House, the discontented youths said their…