This aptly sums up what characterises most sessions of the National Assembly. Usually, on Wednesdays the National Assembly will be packed to the rafters as MPs get a chance to raise questions with Cabinet ministers affecting the nation during live television coverage. Because of the love of cameras, most legislators are active on this day,…
SANITARY Aid Zimbabwe Trust (SAZT) has marked International Women’s Day by distributing menstrual products in rural Domboshava as it gears towards ending period poverty. Theresa Nyava, the trust’s founder and executive director, said period poverty occurs when girls and women who menstruate fail to access proper sanitary products, information and facilities to enable them to…
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has said the recently gazetted Constitutional Amendment Bill should be rejected as it promotes secrecy, thereby increasing lack of transparency and accountability in the government’s use of mining rights as collateral for securing loans. This comes amid widespread calls from various civil society organisations, including the Zimbabwe Human Rights…
THEY figure on Zimbabwe’s national flag, bank notes and official documents: stone statues representing birds taken away by the European colonialists more than a century ago. The eight original sculptures hold great spiritual value for the people of the southern African nation, and have been made into national emblems. Six of the large carvings were…
ZANU PF’S restructuring in the troublesome provinces of Harare and Bulawayo is happening in fits and starts, with party political commissar Victor Matemadanda, pictured, expressing concern about the threat posed by powerful land barons who want to take up leadership positions. Although the ruling party, which is not popular in urban areas, has set up…
HARARE residents have blasted council over recent astronomical rates hikes, arguing they are anti-poor and should be challenged in a court of law. The uproar came after the Local Government ministry approved the 2020 Harare city budget which saw the local authority quadrupling water charges by 400 percent, raising sewer charges by 300 percent, doubling…
IN what could present the MDC with a fresh headache another opposition party, bearing the name MDC Original, has been registered by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). According to a letter that was written by Zec chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana, pictured, MDC Original is headquartered in Mutare and is now recognised as an official…
THE hyper-inflationary environment being experienced in the country has crippled the health sector, with the government forced to channel most financial resources to paying health workers than investing in service delivery, Health minister Obadiah Moyo has said. Speaking at a dinner to welcome Global Fund executive director Peter Sands recently, Moyo said so critical was…
RUSSIA has come to the rescue of 100 000 starving people in Hwange, Nkayi and Zvishavane after procuring food aid worth US$1,5 million. The food was bought and distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for the areas, which were among the worst affected by severe drought and food insecurity in the country….
THIRTY EIGHT people have been killed by wild animals across the country since last year, while over 1 000 cases of human-wildlife conflict were recorded over the same period, authorities have said. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said human-wildlife conflict was worsening…
