Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS MANY Zimbabweans are warming up to the recent calls for national dialogue and an internal resolution of the country’s decades-long political and economic crises, while also imploring President Emmerson Mnangagwa to move with speed to hold the much-needed talks with all key stakeholders. Among the groups which…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw NEWLY-APPOINTED Lands and Agriculture minister, Anxious Masuka, said yesterday that the government’s decision to compensate and restore land titles to white former commercial farmers was not a reversal of the country’s land reform programme. This comes after the government recently signed a US$3,5 billion Global Compensation Agreement with the…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE is likely to experience tropical cyclones in the forthcoming rainfall season which will result in floods, violent storms and damages to homesteads due to La Nina weather patterns, Environment minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu has said. A La Nina is a weather pattern that normally results in more rainfall as…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw SOME members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have demanded the dissolution of the Christopher Mutsvangwa-led executive on account of neglecting them, the Daily News reports. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, the former freedom fighters led by Ethan Mathibela, who was flanked by Ignatius Mutsinze,…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zwTHE government reiterated yesterday that only Zimbabweans could resolve the country’s myriad challenges, warning that it was futile for anyone to expect outsiders to lift the nation out of its current difficulties. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba said it was disconcerting to see…
AS ZIMBABWE begins to ease its coronavirus mitigation measures, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that it is dangerous for countries to open their economies without enough safeguards, the Daily News reports. The warning comes as the government is at odds with teachers who argue that the plans by authorities to re-launch class learning…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE government has set schools reopening dates for Cambridge and Zimsec examination classes at September 14 and 28 respectively, the Daily News reports. Schools were closed in March, shortly before President Emmerson Mnangagwa imposed a national coronavirus lockdown. Cases of the deadly disease have since surpassed 5 000 although…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, pictured, has filed for divorce from his wife Florence who is also former deputy prosecutor-general, after allegedly spending six years living separately and not enjoying conjugal rights. Ziyambi married Florence under the Marriages Act at Harare on December 26, 1993 and the marriage still subsists. In…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw IT IS critical that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF urgently lead efforts to address the country’s decades-long political crisis if the government is to have any chance of mitigating the economic pain of long-suffering Zimbabweans, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, they said without national…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS THE government prepares to open schools partially — on the back of falling coronavirus infections in the country — teachers say authorities are ill-prepared for the safe relaunch of learning, the Daily News reports. This comes as Cabinet has directed the ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to…
