CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says current electoral laws do not allow the opposition to plan for elections optimally. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa also said the fact that election dates were proclaimed by the president bestowed significant electoral advantages on the country’s incumbent leader and governing party over their…
OWNERS of illegal structures in Bulawayo’s Central Business District (CBD) face charges as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) conducts inspections meant to identify unapproved constructions. According to the latest council minutes, BCC said it was following up on all illegal structures in the city. “BCC is in the process of issuing final notices and charging…
By Yvonne Ncube UNITED Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), a government institution, says it will soon start hip surgeries following success in their pilot project. Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. Addressing the media at a hip surgery showcase yesterday at…
By Brandon Josphat THE government has scrapped the school fee payment facility for teachers’ children after it recently introduced a teaching allowance meant to benefit all public school teachers. This comes after the government announced in April last year that it would pay school fees for three children in both primary and secondary schools for…
By Ketty Nyoni VARIOUS groups representing women’s rights want the quota system adopted in 2013 to allow 60 females to be elected as MPs or councillors without going through elections to be scrapped as it was discriminatory. Since the adoption of a new Constitution in 2013, Zimbabwe legislated a quota of 60 seats distributed among…
ZIMBABWE is expecting at least 2,3 million tonnes of maize from the 2022/23 summer cropping season, a 58 percent increase from last…
By Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat THERE has been universal condemnation of power utility Zesa’s move to switch off and force many of the country’s big companies to pay for their electricity needs in hard currency. This is being implemented despite load-shedding in the country continuing to make life miserable for both ordinary consumers and…
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will announce the dates for this year’s harmonised elections before the end of next month. Speaking at the rehabilitation of the Zimbabwe Platinum Mines-sponsored Mhondoro-Mubaira hospital project yesterday, Mnangagwa also implored citizens not to fight over the polls. “Tatarisana nesarudzo … mwedzi unouya uyo ndichakuudzai (We are approaching the elections and I…
By Brandon Josphat THE United Kingdom’s House of Lords has called upon its government to investigate allegations surrounding media reports of corruption and money laundering levelled against Zimbabwe’s Ambassadorat-Large Uebert Mudzanire, better known as Prophet Uebert Angel. This comes after a global television network, Al Jazeera, aired four episodes of a documentary, Gold Mafia, on…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring candidates are going through rigorous screening procedures, during which they must, among other things, provide proof of the new voters they helped register, their current employment status, evidence that they are paying municipal rates and a police clearance. In a form seen by the Daily News yesterday, candidates are…
