GOVERNMENT says it is working with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust)’s Applied Testing Genetic Centre (AGTC) to identify deceased victims of Cyclone Idai which ravaged the country last month. [GoogleAd] At least 344 cyclone deaths have been reported after Idai swept across Chimanimani, Chipinge, Nyanga, Mutasa, Makoni and Mutare with the number…
Zim policies hitting poor hardest: UN expertsGovernment policies are worsening the country’s economic crisis, causing immense hardship to those less well-off, and crushing the human rights of those who dare complain, a group of United Nations experts have warned. [GoogleAd] The warning comes from UN experts namely Philip Alston (Australia), special rapporteur on extreme poverty…
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined her husband in hiring pricey private jets — which cost taxpayers thousands of United States dollars. [GoogleAd] The first lady returned home from Dubai on Tuesday last week aboard a private jet Airbus A318-112 (CJ) Elite chartered for her and her travelling party. She had gone to Dubai for…
THE MDC-T breakaway faction led by Thokozani Khupe has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government as legitimate, throwing its full weight behind national dialogue meetings being championed by the Zanu PF leader. [GoogleAd] According to the MDC-T, the question of Mnangagwa’s legitimacy is misplaced because his administration was declared duly elected by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission…
THE MDC has entered a crucial week after it set the ball rolling on provincial nominations for the party’s national leadership over the weekend, ahead of next month’s do-or-die elective congress. [GoogleAd] Coming against the background of intense jostling for positions within the main opposition party, the congress scheduled to run from May 24 to…
PARLIAMENT’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday grilled officials representing Univern — a company awarded multi-million-dollar contracts by the Zimbabwe National Road Agency (Zinara). According to Grant Thornton’s forensic audit report, Univern — trading as Southern Region Trading Company — signed several contracts with Zinara without the parastatal having floated proper tenders. [GoogleAd] The contracts covered vehicle,…
THE intra-party violence rocking the main MDC party ahead of its May congress might cause the party to split if history is anything to go by, analysts contend. [GoogleAd] Reports coming from the provinces across Zimbabwe are disturbing as violence seems to be escalating in the main opposition party, notwithstanding last week’s standing committee meeting…
ZIMBABWE Peace Project (ZPP) says it recorded 213 human rights violations in march compared to the 196 recorded in the previous month. [GoogleAd] In its monthly monitoring report, ZPP which houses nine church-based and human rights organisations, said the majority of the recorded violations centred around harassment, intimidation and threats which accounted 52,6 percent of…
FARMERS have expressed reservations over the effectiveness of the government-initiated land audits in resolving land ownership disputes across the country. This emerged at the second launch of the national land policy meeting held in Bulawayo recently. [GoogleAd] Farmers said the government had over the years carried out several land audits which failed to resolve the…
EARLY assessments of the crop situation at Meikles group’s Tanganda Tea estates in Chipinge show that some of the crop has been damaged by the catastrophic Cyclone Idai, which descended on Zimbabwe recently, according to a key executive at the company. The official said early indications show that the avocado crop has been negatively impacted…
