LEGISLATORS have demanded the government to pay Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in United States dollars since service providers were also demanding payment in foreign currency. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Zanu PF for Mutare West legislator Teedzai Percy Muchimwe said the CDF they were getting was not enough to do meaningful developmental projects…
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo, who is accused of vote buying to be elected into office in 2018 has lost his freedom bid after a regional magistrate dismissed his application for discharge. In a ruling read on her behalf yesterday, magistrate Bianca Makwande said innocence would be proven at the end of a full trial arguing that…
THE ministry of Environment is set to conduct public consultations to establish the root cause of climate change in the country and possible solutions ahead of the Stockholm@50 Conference scheduled for Sweden early June. The national consultations are set to be conducted in conjunction with the United Nations environment programme according to Environment minister Mangaliso…
FIRST Mutual Life (FML) has been conferred with the ISO9001:2015 certificate, which is renewed every three years having initially attained ISO certification in 2012. Over the years, FML had endeavoured to attain high service excellence and even surpass it. First Mutual Health had also gone through the certification process and is now ISO certified. Life insurance…
SEEDCO seed maize conditioning plant which was commissioned last year in September by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has started successfully operating after having dried up 300 metric tonnes of the maize seed since February this year when it started operating. The plant alternatively known as the dryer was set up to speed up the drying process…
Blessing Masakadza and Blessings Mashaya IN WELCOME pronouncements after weeks of acrimony, the country’s three main political parties all urged Zimbabweans yesterday to desist from violence ahead of key elections. Speaking at separate rallies yesterday, both the ruling Zanu PF and its main opposition rivals — the MDC and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)…
ARMED robbers continue to be a menace in the country with several cases being recorded each passing week. In the latest cases, a family in Zengeza lost US$13 500 after armed robbers stormed their house on Thursday at around 2am before holding them hostage. The suspects who were armed with a black pistol and an…
TEACHERS who have been on strike since schools resumed face-to-face learning on March 7 over salaries and conditions of service are back at work after a government directive, amid concerns that there is not much teaching taking place in classes nevertheless. The Daily News Staff Writer Rumbidzai Ngwenya had a chat with Progressive Teachers Union of…
NEW independent television station, 3Ktv, continues to make waves among Zimbabweans for the quality of its programming, two weeks into its historic…
Dionne Kanyowa FORMER acting general manager of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), Luke Akino, will continue to serve his three year custodial sentence for abuse of office as the High Court dismissed his appeal against his conviction. Akino who was initially convicted and sentenced to four years before one year was wholly-suspended on condition he does not…
