HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume, pictured, is now back at Town House after his 45-day suspension by Local Government minister July Moyo lapsed last week, Friday. In a letter written by his lawyer Tonderai Bhatasara to Harare City Council (HCC) acting town clerk Phakamile Moyo dated February 3, Mafume started his normal duties on Friday. “We…
AUTHORITIES announced a raft of measures yesterday aimed at promoting the wider use of the Zimbabwe dollar and stabilising prices of goods in the country. In a move that will be welcomed by both business and ordinary consumers, the new measures also include the payment of import duties in local currency. Making the announcement in…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, has put misfiring public service officials on notice, revealing yesterday that all of them will now be asked to sign performance-linked contracts. In a statement, Mnangagwa said Cabinet ministers, chief executive officers (CEOs) of local authorities and State-owned enterprises, as well as all vice chancellors of universities would sign performance contracts on…
ZANU PF national political commissar, Mike Bimha, pictured, has warned that the ruling party’s continuing factional fights could sabotage the former liberation movement’s 2023 poll targets. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid widening fissures in Zanu PF regional structures despite the party having recently concluded its provincial elections, Bimha appealed for unity saying this was the…
LIBERATION struggle stalwart and one of the founders of Zanu PF, Rugare Gumbo, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling party to use the March 26 by-elections to end the country’s history of disputed polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Gumbo — who is the only surviving member of the Dare ReChimurenga (liberation war council)…
PUBLIC sector workers are pushing for an urgent review of their remuneration and other working conditions which they say have been badly affected by the country’s sickly economy. In a letter to Labour minister Paul Mavima yesterday, the president of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) — also known as the Apex…
THERE is no let-up to the war of attrition between opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and Nelson Chamisa, with the MDC cranking up the heat on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, Mwonzora confirmed that the MDC would recall all CCC legislators who would make it to Parliament or council after…
ZIMBABWE business pressure group, Affirmative Action Group (AAG), has demanded that local entities must be given first priority in acquiring a stake…
AUTHORITIES further eased the country’s coronavirus restrictions yesterday, while also allowing schools to reopen for face-to-face learning as from February 7— as Covid deaths and new infections continue to decline. At the same time, and in a move that will be welcomed by many people, the government has also reviewed curfew times — which will…
THE newly-rebranded Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) scrambled to play down simmering tensions among its bigwigs yesterday over candidates for the March 26 by-elections. This comes as the party’s controversial decision to choose its candidates through “consensus” continues to raise temperatures — resulting in the troubling fielding of double contenders in Bulawayo and Masvingo on…
