HARARE – British MPs say they regret that their government took a quick stance to cosy up to the Zimbabwean administration soon after President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over power from former president Robert Mugabe in the November 2017 coup. Kate Hoey, a Labour Party MP, moved a motion in Parliament for the MPs to debate…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been left with egg on his face after the general secretary of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) Reverend Kenneth Mtata snubbed an invitation to be a member of his Presidential Advisory Council (Pac). In a letter dated January 30, the clergyman said although he was flattered by Mnangagwa’s…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, has denied reports suggesting that all is not well between him and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, the Daily News can report. Speaking to journalists at an informal media briefing at Munhumutapa Building — the citadel of government power — Mnangagwa said there was no rift between him and Chiwenga,…
HARARE – Government has said it will not pay doctors for the days they were absent at their work stations during the 40-day long industrial action which started early in December and ended at the start of last month. The Heath Services Board told the Daily News that government will only pay the health workers…
HARARE – The price of maize meal is set to go up after the rise in the cost of fuel by over 150 percent, with grain millers saying transport costs for outside deliveries and raw materials have shot up by over 80 percent. Zimbabweans — already feeling the pinch from the recent fuel price hike…
HARARE – South African gold producers have asked Zimbabweans who used to work there as mine workers in the 1970s and contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis to come forward and benefit from a $400 million compensation fund. This comes after the settlement of a far-reaching class action in South Africa that…
HARARE – Zimbabwean women are being urged to wear black clothing tomorrow in solidarity with army rape victims. The all-black dress code protest — being organised by TsimbaKadzi — is meant to highlight ongoing widespread abuse of women and to stop the disgraceful sexual aggression by the army against defenceless and vulnerable women. TsimbaKadzi national…
HARARE – ICT minister Kazembe Kazembe says government is forging ahead with its plans push to bring high-speed Internet to rural areas around the country in an effort to accelerate economic development. This comes as the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has so far established 75 Community Information Centres (CICs) in marginalised…
HARARE – Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) has urged medical and dental students studying abroad to register with the organisation to ease their entry into practice when they return back home. “It has come to the notice of the MDPCZ that a significant number of Zimbabweans are studying medicine and dentistry abroad…
HARARE – Three independent power producers (IPPs) have approached the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) seeking licences to venture into electricity generation. Zera said it had received applications from Monopower Solar Private Limited; Zororo Energy Company and Guruve Solar Park Private Limited. The Monopower project is expected to include the construction of six kilometres of…
