© THE rising cost of living is erasing the middle class in Zimbabwe, while condemning hitherto middle-income earners and part of the high-income earners to the ranks of poverty, the Daily News on Sunday can report. [GoogleAd] With inflation touching a 10-year high of 75,86 percent in April from 66,80 percent in March, the obtaining…
© ONE of the country’s political Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP) led by Blessing Kasiyamhuru (pictured) has fired its party spokesperson Innocent Mupanganyama (Netanyau) for insubordination, not aligning with the party vision and misrepresentation of the Party after he went on to attend the launch of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) meeting on Friday without the…
© TONGOGARA Rural District Council has gazetted the environmental and natural resources conservation by-law which governs mining, protection of indigenous plant species and protection of wildlife. [GoogleAd] According to the new law, the council which is also referred to as Shurugwi Rural District Council states that land occupiers should keep their properties free of invasive…
© HARARE City Council has sent three successful bidders for water treatment chemicals to the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) for consideration. [GoogleAd] Town clerk Hosiah Chisango told the Daily News on Sunday that the companies had conducted successful trials and the process was now in its final stages. Harare has been struggling with…
© INTERNATIONAL human rights group Front Line Defenders (FLD) has condemned last month’s arrest of four human rights defenders at a meeting organised by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz). [GoogleAd] FLD perceives the arrests as part of an effort to clamp down on dissent, specifically against human rights defenders fighting for the…
© THE Harare City Council (HCC) is spearheading a smart schools initiative that will see state-of-the art learning facilities being built henceforth. [GoogleAd] This comes after the ministry of Education reduced the acreage allocate towards the construction of schools to three-and-a-half hectares. As a result, Harare city fathers have now resolved to constructing storey buildings…
© The city fathers are also mulling drilling an additional 20 boreholes in residential areas to augment the already existing boreholes which are now overwhelmed. [GoogleAd] Gweru Urban legislator Brian Dube last week pleaded with government to avail funds for the rehabilitation of Gwenoro which he said was heavily silted. Dube also called for the…
© GOVERNMENT is recruiting more teachers to ease shortages of educators in primary and secondary schools. [GoogleAd] This follows the realisation that the recruitment freeze on staff was now being felt in schools that are in the throes of a growing crisis in teacher staffing levels. Schools across the country are currently struggling to recruit…
© ZANU PF youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi, pictured, has threatened to name and shame “cartels” whose activities are hindering the country’s growth. [GoogleAd] The youth league leader said he is in possession of a list of names of people involved in “corrupt” activities, accusing those in business, leadership positions and the civil service of…
© PARLIAMENT has demanded that a company that supplied radiography machines to Mpilo Hospital in 2012 without giving adequate information about their use be held accountable for their persistent breakdowns. [GoogleAd] In 2012, Mpilo Hospital purchased the machines from Varian Medical Systems and installed one of the machines in 2017. Since then the health institution…
