© Last month, Zimbabwe banned the use of the rand, the US dollar, and other currencies as legal tender in the country. [GoogleAd] For the past decade, the government has allowed these currencies as legal payment after its own dollar became worthless. Its interim currency — the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar (RTGS) or “zollar”…
© IN Epworth — a poor settlement south-east of Harare — residents of the area have become used to the commonplace hunger all their lives. [GoogleAd] To get by, they borrow food from each other. But now, their resilience is being chipped away. “The hunger here is getting worse,” 47-year-old Mike Moyo said. “After…
© THERE has been a rapid influx of fortune seekers in the mineral-rich Umzingwane District in Matabeleland South after gold was discovered at a river bed in the area. [GoogleAd] According to estimates, more than 2 000 people descended on the rural territory during the latest gold rush. The thousands of illegal miners that have…
© IT’S already 9pm and we are packed like sardines, on the lowly-fared Zupco bus.There is little space to breathe, let alone move. [GoogleAd] It’s uncomfortable but there is no option. Missing the bus means being at the mercy of overcharging and mean commuter omnibus operators. After squeezing to find our little spots, an elderly…
© IN NEIGHBOURING South Africa, the image captured by legendary photographer Sam Nzima showing iconic schoolboy Hector Pieterson — who was shot and killed by the apartheid regime during the famous 1976 South Western Townships (Soweto) Uprisings — forever remains engraved in the history of that nation. [GoogleAd] The story about Pieterson is not just…
© IN A development which brings back unsettling memories of between 2009-2013, the period in which the MDC was accused of participating in graft, the latest national audit report has raised serious questions about corporate governance and efficiency at the country’s largest opposition party-run municipalities. [GoogleAd] During the short-lived but stability-inducing government of national unity…
© DURING a rape trial, a 14-year-old victim requests the court to clear the gallery, including her parents, because she had a confession to make. [GoogleAd] Once cleared, she refutes claims that the perpetrator, 20, had forced himself on her but narrates how they had been in a blissful sexual relationship, prompting the court to…
© LEGAL experts have warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s increasing reliance on emergence powers, to deal with the country’s worsening economic rot, runs the risk of side-lining Parliament in debating and bringing new laws. [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa, however, is allowed by the law to use emergency powers under the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act. The Act…
© THE Zanu PF youth league has taken a lot of flak for going public with damaging allegations of corruption levelled against senior party officials and bureaucrats. [GoogleAd] Daily News on Sunday’s News Editor Gift Phiri speaks with the youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu who says they have “overwhelming evidence” to support their claims…
© A country’s healthcare success is linked to its economic health. Industrial development policy implementation impacts economic development and healthcare positively. [GoogleAd] Sustaining health policies requires developing and deploying a wide range of support instruments through which business can grow. Our argument is not that Industrial Development Policy will lead to increased healthcare delivery but…
