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© LEGISLATORS have pleaded with Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to re-dollarise the economy since many businesses are charging goods and services in United States of America (US) dollars, barely a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that the Zimbabwe dollar will remain the country’s sole legal tender. [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa, whose government reintroduced the Zimbabwe dollar…

© A ZANU PF district chairperson will appear in court tomorrow after he reportedly assaulted a Mvurwi headmaster’s wife, resulting in her having a miscarriage. Vivien Nhamoyebonde’s wife, Hopetwin Tumbare, was allegedly assaulted by Walter Nyakudya, who is Zanu PF’s Makumbiri District chairperson in Mvurwi. [GoogleAd] Nhamoyebonde told the Daily News yesterday that a case…

© MARONDERA municipality is set to demolish all illegal structures sprouting at the farming town’s bus terminus where barons are renting out space to the public. The matter came up for discussion at a recent full council meeting where councillors raised concern over the lawlessness at the bus terminus that has seen space barons charging…

© GREEN Institute, an organisation that strives to mitigate adverse effects of climate change, has raised concern over proliferation of firewood-powered community bakeries in Zimbabwe, saying they are a threat to the country’s forests. This comes after Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development minister Sithembiso Nyoni recently revealed that more than 3 000…

© THE Zanu PF youth league has said there are some party leaders and legislators who have abandoned people which left many ruling party supporters without information on what the government is doing to solve the current economic crisis. This was revealed in the central committee report where youths urged the party bigwigs to address…

© COMMUNITIES in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, still fear opening up on how the Gukurahundi massacres affected them in a development that might impede Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC)’s efforts to document challenges faced by the victims in accessing national documents. [GoogleAd] This emerged at a ZHRC national inquiry to access to documentation mop-up exercise that…

© A POLICE officer stationed in Luveve suburb in Zimbabwe’s second largest city allegedly ran amok and assaulted two men who had reportedly threatened to kill his son, a court heard yesterday. Bulawayo provincial magistrate Nomasiko Ndlovu heard that Justice Rabson, who is a police superintendent, picked up two fellow cops at Donnington Police Station…

© POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a three-man pirate taxi crew which gang-raped a 16-year-old girl last Sunday. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the juvenile was raped after she boarded a silver grey Honda Fit at City Hall intending to go home. [GoogleAd] “In the car were the driver and two…

© MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo says he had to complain to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop the buying and ferrying of quarry from Harare to Bulawayo-Nkayi and Bulawayo-Tsholotsho to fix strip roads. Speaking to journalists during a tour of Lupane district on Monday, Moyo did not hide his displeasure at the development,…

© WOMEN’S Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) has called on Parliament to push for the 50/50 gender equality benchmark envisaged in the constitution and not the extension of the 60 proportional representation seats for women. This follows the recent announcement by the government that it had approved the amendment of the constitution to…