SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts that he is the interim secretary-general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), says Zimbabweans now need to move away from the recent elections and work together in the interests of the country. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday in a wide-ranging interview, Tshabangu added that all CCC constituents…

 HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira says there are nearly 20 000 teaching vacancies in the country, notwithstanding that thousands of trained educators were unemployed. Responding to enquiries by legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday on why his ministry continued to train teachers the government is not employing, Murwira said jobless graduates from…

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is ramping up its efforts to boost its tax collections, including getting the informal sector to contribute more to the fiscus. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, deputy Finance minister David Mnangagwa said the government was doing everything it could to collect more tax from the burgeoning informal sector….

THE chaos-ravaged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is faced with two equally undesirable alternatives in the wake of the debilitating recall of 15 of its legislators from Parliament this week. So say political analysts, who told the Daily News yesterday that both withdrawing all the party’s legislators from Parliament in protest at the recalls, or…

THE simmering tensions within the fledgling Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) could soon boil over into full-bloodied civil war if the party does not move with speed to strengthen its internal governance systems. So warn political analysts, who told the Daily News yesterday that the current bid to recall 15 of the party’s MPs and…

AUTHORITIES have set up a technical committee to look into how it can end the water crisis that has hit Harare for over a month now, amid increase of cholera cases across the country. In a statement yesterday, Water minister Anxious Masuka said the members of the technical committee are from government ministries, Zimbabwe National…

THE opposition now needs to accept the reality that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF will be in power for the next five years, and concentrate on the future. So says former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu — who now leads the Front for Economic Emancipation Zimbabwe (FEEZ) — who adds that citizens are…

LABOUR unions have called for an all-stakeholders meeting in a bid to find ways of mitigating the plight of workers in the face of rising prices of basic goods. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, union leaders said such a meeting was crucial to prevent a “looming social crisis” as a result of…

WAR veterans have defended their association chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa, who is also the newly-appointed War Veterans minister, saying he remains their legitimate leader until they hold their congress. This comes after some disgruntled former liberation heroes claimed that they had formed an interim committee to replace the Mutsvangwa-led executive and prepare for an elective congress….

THE ruling Zanu PF has warned its members that the days of some of them creating chaos within the party are gone. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, in the wake of the prohibition orders slapped on seven officials from Harare Province, Zanu PF director for information Farai Marapira said this was the beginning of…