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Brighton Muronzereyi CHIEF WRITER TEACHERS have demanded a ZiG67.8 billion allocation in the 2027 National Budget to unfreeze 9 425 vacant posts and raise baseline salaries to US$100 monthly. In a position paper yesterday, Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) president Akuneni Maphosa said the association remained committed to advocating for improved funding, better salaries, and working…

Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR IN A major bid to modernise the country’s law enforce­ment capacity, authorities are increasingly turning to advanced technology to tackle rising crime and cross-border smuggling. This has seen both the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) escalating their acquisitions of high-tech tools to upgrade national security operations…

Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR ZIMBABWE must translate economic stability into jobs, higher household incomes, and improved living standards as the country shifts towards structural transformation, so says the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube. Ncube said the National Development Strategy 2 (NDS2), covering the 2026–2030 period, would focus on boosting production, developing infrastructure, creating sustainable employment,…

BRANDON JOSPHAT POLICE have confirmed that 30-year-old Godknows Muleya, who shot and killed his ex-wife last week, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at a Chiredzi lodge on Saturday. Muleya, who was being sought in connection with the murder of Midlands State University student, Lisedi Nkomo, was believed to have committed…

THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has strongly condemned the use of religious teachings to justify domestic violence and silence survi­vors. This call was made yesterday as the ZCC joined the Zimbabwe Gender Commission’s (ZGC) 90 Days Campaign Against Intimate Part­ner Violence. Running from October to December 2026, the campaign seeks to confront domestic abuse…

YVONNE NCUBE in Bulawayo FOUR Bulawayo men have been arrested in connection with 19 cases of theft from motor vehicles across public car parks in Kwekwe. Midlands police spokesper­son Emmanuel Mahoko yes­terday said the suspects were arrested on October 8 at a lodge in Kwekwe following investi­gations into a series of thefts committed at public…

SHAMAINE CHIRIMUJIRI AS FATAL domestic violence cases continue to rise nationwide, calls are growing for partners to leave toxic relationships before it is too late.The programme manager of prominent women’s rights group Shamwari Yemwanasikana, Fanuel Marowa, is the latest high-profile figure to urge people in abusive relationships to “walk away”.Speaking on Thursday night on leading…