PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and regionalism. Speaking at the burial of late national hero Sydney Gata at the National Heroes Acre in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa called for national cohesion to be promoted at all cost as Zimbabweans were related in one way or the other. “Gata’s revolutionary consciousness grew as…
muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE late national hero, Sydney Gata, was an institutional developer who rescued the country’s energy sector from total collapse, the minister of Energy, July Moyo, has said. Gata died on Thursday after a short illness and will be buried today at the National Heroes Acre. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the late national hero’s…
THE Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (Zida) has expressed concern over non-compliance by players in reserved sectors, particularly in the extractive industry, where mining companies are overlapping into transport and logistics. Zida chief executive officer Tafadzwa Chinamo told the parliamentary portfolio committee on transport on Monday that local investors were facing challenges due to being…
muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT is set to establish a commissions of inquiry in Bulawayo, Victoria Falls and Gweru to investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the councils, Local Government minister Daniel Garwe has confirmed. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month received a report on Harare City Council governance issues from a commission of inquiry…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he was left disheartened by the dire state of the country’s public hospitals after he recently visited some of the major health facilities in Harare. At the same time, Mnangagwa warned Zanu PF members yesterday not to use the party’s restructuring exercises to advance selfish interests and to fan divisions within…
muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have approved the Biological and Toxin Weapons Crimes Bill, a significant step towards preventing the production and use of biological weapons. The Bill’s primary objective is to outlaw the development, production, manufacture, possession, stockpiling, importation, exportation, transportation, transit, trans-shipment, transfer, or use of biological agents, toxins, and weapons. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing…
muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has affirmed that the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo’s heroic and selfless nationalism continues to inspire Zimbabwe’s implementation of people-oriented policies. This commemoration comes 26 years after Nkomo’s passing at the age of 82 on July 1 1999 at Parirenyatwa hospital. He was subsequently laid to rest at the National Heroes…
muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw LEGISLATORS have expressed serious concerns about the deteriorating state of the country’s education sector, citing crumbling infrastructure and a severe shortage of resources. The alarm was raised in a report tabled in the National Assembly last week by the Joint Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education and the Thematic Committee on Gender…
THE country’s health delivery system is in a dire state, placing mental health patients in precarious situations, Parliament has said. This assessment follows a nationwide tour by the Portfolio Committee on Youth Empowerment, Development, and Vocational Training, which investigated the condition of drug and substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation centres. In a report tabled in…
THE minister of Agriculture, Anxious Masuka, says they have established 600 cotton selling points to rid the industry of side marketing that is shortchanging contractors. This comes as Masuka recently assured farmers that the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) was ready to pay an outstanding US$3 million debt it owes them. Addressing the media in Harare…
