OVER a fortnight ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law Constitutional Amendment No.2 and immediately extended by five years the term of Chief Justice Luke Malaba. The decision was challenged in the High Court, which overturned the appointment. The government has since appealed against the ruling. The amendment is viewed as Mnangagwa’s game plan to…
ZIMBABWE is saddled by a huge passport backlog as a result of foreign currency shortages to buy consumables. Daily News on Sunday Senior Staff Writer Austin Karonga last week spoke to Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to find out how the government intends to address the issue. Below are the excerpts. Q: What is the…
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni says the country’s second largest city needs renewal and regeneration as part of its development agenda. Mguni, the youngest mayor that the city has ever had post-independence, last week sat down with the Daily News on Sunday’s Bulawayo Bureau Chief Jeffrey Muvundusi to look at the plethora of challenges his council is…
By Tinashe Hofisi THE Constitution of Zimbabwe is in the process of significant alteration. The first amendment bill was passed on September 17 2017 in a second vote by the Senate in accordance with a Constitutional Court order and the second amendment bill has just sailed through the National Assembly and (Senate). Intense opposition to both…
HEALTH has been of utmost importance to humanity since the beginning of times and it is every human being’s desire to be in…
ZIMBABWE’S never-ending political and economic crises are blamed on the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the opposition, civil society and the church to have an all-inclusive dialogue to hammer out solutions. Forthright former Zanu PF spokesperson and the only surviving member of then Zanu’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, believes mistrust…
ZIMBABWE today celebrates its 41st Independence anniversary amid a flagging economy, political and economic challenges. The ruling Zanu PF believes the economy is turning the corner after the dramatic popularly-supported coup against the former late president Robert Gabriel Mugabe in November 2017. The Daily News on Sunday Group Features Editor Dakarai Mashava last week spoke…
AFTER being frustrated by the scarcity of up-to-date Shona and Ndebele language resources, United States-based Yeve Sibanda- a Zimbabwe-born attorney, cultural curator and public speaker-decided to write her own book. Titled ‘My First Book of Shona and Ndebele Words,’ the book is a picture vocabulary book designed to help readers learn and teach the two…
By Norman Nyazema LAST month marked a very special point for Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), the publishers of the Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday. We celebrated our 10th anniversary since we relaunched the market-leading Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday in March 2011. To all our loyal staff, readers,…
IT SEEMS unreal that 10 years have passed since the Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday made their incredible return to the market in March 2011 ó eight years after being shut down violently and unjustly by the late former president Robert Mugabe and his goons. Indeed, the saying that ëtime flies when…
