HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa last weekend rescued his beleaguered deputy Elias Mudzuri whom party officials wanted booted out. The MDC convened meetings of its three top organs, the standing committee, the executive committee and the national council last weekend, where agitation for Mudzuri’s ouster reached fever pitch. Mudzuri’s rivals were pushing the MDC…
HARARE – The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has placed several law firms under curatorship and has advised members of the public not to associate with them. In a statement, LSZ said Allen Moyo Attorneys, Chibune and Associates, Chizikani Legal Practitioners, Gonesi and Partners, Machokoto and Partners, Marondedze and Makuku Legal Practitioners, Mhiribidi Company, James…
HARARE – The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has de-registered two lawyers over alleged misconduct. In a notice yesterday, LSZ said the two lawyers were de-registered last week. “The Law Society of Zimbabwe would like to notify the public that the following were deregistered by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (LPDT) sitting at Harare on…
BULAWAYO – The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) says it has recorded a four percent increase in tonnage movement in a space of four months. NRZ moved more than 1,4 million tonnes of cargo between July 1 and October 31, 2018 putting a difference of 1,3 million tonnes moved during the same period last year….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cost of living has increased again due to the prevailing economic conditions, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has revealed. This comes after a tax increase on electronic transactions, cash and fuel shortages as well as price hikes, among other challenges, have caused retailers to persist in pounding the economic burden on…
HARARE – Schools in Zimbabwe may remain closed on opening day next month as teachers strike to press for higher pay. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has invited teachers to a meeting on Friday to open the wage talks. In a letter dated December 10, to Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond…
Q: The challenges in the public health sector and, indeed, the health industry at large are not new as they have been with us since the early 1990s. As the CWGH, do you have confidence in the ability of the current administration to resolve them? A: Now that the elections are over, the people of…
HARARE – Restive civil servants — reeling from the country’s precipitous fall in living standards and ever-declining disposable incomes — have warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under-pressure government that they will go on strike next month unless it hikes their salaries massively, the Daily News can report. Sign up to receive DAILY NEWS mobile phone…
ESIGODINI – President Emmerson Mnangagwa threw out the contentious motion to up the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years that had been reverently pushed by the war veterans and the ruling party women’s league. The Zanu PF national people’s conference declined to adopt the constitutional amendment to sideline opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from…
ESIGODINI – Amid deepening poverty in the country, Zanu PF splurged millions of dollars on its two-day annual conference on food, accommodation and transport, with the ruling party even gloating that it paid for all the services rendered. At least all the 6 000 delegates at the annual conference were treated to packed breakfast and…
