THE Grain Marketing Board has been tasked with auditing the distribution of inputs under the Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme to ensure there is no corruption, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has said. As the country prepares for the 2022/23 summer cropping season, in the past farmers have been crying foul over the unfair distribution of inputs as there…
ZANU PF is cranking up the heat on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), with the ruling party reiterating yesterday that the new kid on the block should be excluded from next year’s crunch polls because it does not have a constitution. Speaking to the Daily News two weeks after the former liberation movement similarly…
ZANU PF MP for Gokwe Nembudziya, Justice Mayor Wadyajena and his Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses co-accused were yesterday shipped to remand prison pending continuation of their bail application today. Wadyajena is alleged to have acquired 25 trucks from alleged Cottco money that was sent to a United States firm under the guise of…
Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw CIVIL servants have appealed to the minister of Public Service Paul Mavima to reinstate the recently sacked Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (ZPNU) leader Robert Chiduku. This comes as about 200 more nurses are facing disciplinary action for allegedly conducting trade union business during working hours and participating in what their employer has…
Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw LAWMAKERS have implored authorities to find lasting solutions to their accommodation woes in Harare, amid rising cases of legislators being turned away from hotels for non-payment of bills. Speaking in Parliament this week, vocal MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba, said one way of ending the accommodation challenges was for authorities to…
Melisa ChatikoboSTAFF WRITERchatikobom@dailynews.co.zw THE Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) has registered 814 new farmers for the 2022/23 summer cropping season. In a statement yesterday, the board said “as of Tuesday, the TIMB has registered a total of 80 314 growers, 814 of which there are new growers”.“We continually encourage growers to renew their grower numbers…
THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) says it is eyeing expansion of the country’s source markets by charting new frontiers as part of efforts to achieve a US$5 billion tourism sector by 2025. Over and above the traditional source markets, that include the United Kingdom, the United State, Germany and Belarus, among others, the local authority…
Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmuronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have finally scrapped the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors by fully vaccinated people, as the coronavirus situation in the country continues to improve. This comes after health experts recently urged the government to end the obligatory wearing of masks and also lift other Covid restrictions still in place to allow…
Melisa ChatikoboSTAFF WRITERchatikobom@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have come under renewed pressure to equip public hospitals with high-tech quipment for all life-threatening diseases, while also sourcing enough stocks of critical imported medicines. Yesterday, people living with cancer approached Parliament where they left a petition imploring legislators to push the government to equip public hospitals with functioning radiotherapy machines….
Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE measles death toll continues to rise in the country as the deadly outbreak has so far killed 157 children since April this year. Speaking during a post cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said authorities were putting in place measures to curb the spread of…
