MUTARE – MDC Alliance-controlled local authorities are not autonomous to government and pushing for absolute independence would place them on collision course with the ministry of Local Government, an official has said. Mutare District Administrator (DA) Wilson Boore told Mutare city councillors during their swearing-in recently that they needed to see themselves as part of…
HARARE – ZANU PF has extended an olive branch to former party cadres who were sacked between 2014 and last year. The Daily News can reveal that Zanu PF functionaries — acting on instructions from President Emmerson Mnangagwa — have been in touch with some of the expelled members in a bid to strengthen the…
HARARE – Government should give Harare City Council (HCC) permission to source funders who can construct Kunzvi and Musami dams in order to ease the city’s water problems. Harare mayor Herbert Gomba told the Daily News that the city’s water supply was being outstretched because it provided the liquid to many towns that surrounds it….
HARARE – Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa has expressed his outrage at some municipal officials who attempted to defraud cholera response funds donated by Econet valued at $10 million. In a post on his Facebook page, Masiyiwa alleges that suppliers and some officials from affected municipalities were offering items needed for the response at highly inflated…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown a lifeline to his fellow comrades-in-arms whom he dropped from his Cabinet more than a week ago by giving them plum jobs at the Zanu PF headquarters, complete with perks similar to those enjoyed by his ministers. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – ZANU PF MPs have called on colleagues in Parliament to forgo their perks including top-of-the-range vehicles worth over $20m that government is set to buy them and channel the resources towards combating the cholera epidemic that has so far claimed more than 25 lives. Following an exposé by our sister publication the Daily…
HARARE – The fast-approaching rainy season will most likely worsen the cholera outbreak in the country, health experts have warned. The rainy season is closely linked to the spread of cholera as sewage and soil components containing the bacteria are most likely to be transferred from one place to the other by flowing water. Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Government’s efforts to contain the cholera outbreak that has so far claimed over 20 lives are yielding positive reports as there have been no deaths recorded as of yesterday Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has said. Speaking at the handover ceremony of some equipment from the ministry’s partners that include Avenues…
HARARE – In May this year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa set up a team of lawyers and prosecutors to form the Special Anti-Corruption Unit as part of his pledge to deal with corruption. months later, the unit finds itself fighting wars from many fronts, including court challenges from citizens who are questioning its impartiality. To date,…
HARARE – A number of opposition political parties are likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023 primarily as a result of lack of funding and their failure to gain traction at the just-ended polls. Zimbabwe has over 150 registered political parties of which over 120 took part in the July 30 harmonised elections,…
