FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says all political parties eligible to receive funding under the Political Parties Finance Act must be audited to curb misuse of public funds. The minister said this last week in the National Assembly after Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende had questioned why political parties receiving…
THE government is considering public-private-partnerships and the provision of subsidies to patients treated at private health facilities, as the shortage of drugs, equipment and personnel in public hospitals and clinics persist. Speaking in the National Assembly recently, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said the government was working on improving the dire situation at most public hospitals…
IT SEEMINGLY never rains but pours for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s beset former wife, Marry, after the Pretoria High Court granted an order paving the way for the sale of her luxury properties in South Africa. This latest development followed a ruling earlier this year by the same court which gave SA authorities permission to…
THE country’s opposition has a fair chance of winning next year’s crunch elections as long as it puts its house in order, former Cabinet minister and MDC stalwart Elton Mangoma has said. Speaking last night on independent national television channel 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, Mangoma said it was premature to write off the…
AUTHORITIES say they have completed instituting all the important legislative reforms to ensure free, fair and credible national polls next year, in line with Sadc principles and guidelines on democratic elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi asserted that the electoral reforms that the government had embarked on were in some…
THERE is no end in sight to Zimbabwe’s debilitating power crisis, with authorities now unsure about when Hwange Power Station’s new Unit 7 with installed capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) will come on stream. This comes as hopeful senior government officials have been promising hurting Zimbabweans a blackouts-free future over the past few months, amid…
PEOPLE with disabilities (PWDs) yesterday launched an organisation that is set to campaign for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of next year’s elections. Speaking at the launch of Disabilities for Economic Development (ED) in Harare yesterday, founder of the organisation Jimayi Muduvuri said they were going to work with Zanu PF structures so that they can…
THERE is mounting disquiet within the ranks of Zanu PF over the preliminary outcomes of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) delimitation exercise. At the same time, the national elections management body has defended its work, saying that this won’t affect voting in the station-based polling that will still be in use in the crunch 2023…
FORMER Finance minister and Citizens Coalition for Change senior member Tendai Biti believes Zimbabwe has nothing to benefit from re-joining the Commonwealth, describing the grouping as a ‘‘tea committee’’. Last month, the Commonwealth’s assistant secretary-general Luis Franceschi was in Zimbabwe to assess the situation in the country as Harare seeks re-admission into the grouping. On…
OPPOSITION parties must start preparing for next year’s crunch national elections fully aware that there will be no significant electoral reforms ahead of the polls, political analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said the ruling Zanu PF had no incentive to engage the opposition and was set on exploiting…
