HARARE – The chances of Zanu PF’s alleged Generation 40 kingpins — Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwao and Saviour Kasukuwere — returning home any time soon, and making peace with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government have just dimmed further after the government classified them as security risks. See today’s Daily News for more.
HARARE – Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (Zacras) says its members will commemorate World Radio Day tomorrow disillusioned by government’s continued refusal to licence “genuine community radio stations.” Zacras general council chairperson Perlagia Kapuya told the Daily News that the eight so-called community radio stations that have to date been licensed by the Broadcasting…
HARARE – Government has granted traffic rights to rising airline, Rwanda Air, to service the Kigali-Harare-Cape Town route. The flights, given on a fifth freedom basis, will commence on May 16, this year. The freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights granting a country’s airlines the privilege to enter and land…
HARARE – The announcement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that government will compensate white farmers has been welcomed by thousands of farm workers who will also have to be paid their outstanding salaries. Progressive Agriculture and Allied industries Workers Union of Zimbabwe (Paawuz) official Raymond Sixpence whose union has over the years been fighting to have…
HARARE – Local authorities must pay councillors proper salaries instead of allowances, the leader of the Association of Rural District Councils of Zimbabwe (ARDZ) has said. Councillors, especially those in rural areas, were doing a great job in serving people under difficult circumstances, hence the need to adequately cater for their welfare, ARDZ president Killer…
HARARE – The government has exempted two struggling parastatals, the Air Zimbabwe and the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) from paying duty on spare parts. This comes as the government is seeking to revive the rail and air transport system, which has been failing to make a mark, owing to the depreciating infrastructure within these…
MASVINGO – Masvingo mayor Hubert Fidze has said the idea of giving councillors allowances was breeding corruption among city fathers. Fidze’s remarks come as councillors across the country have been accused of abusing their positions in council at the detriment of service delivery. “Councillors are now taking it as employment rather than service to the…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has taken further steps towards compensating white farmers whose farms were seized during the chaotic agrarian reforms of 18 years ago when it on Friday appointed chairperson of the Compensation Committee that will spearhead the process. Government has appointed Land and Agriculture ministry permanent secretary, Ringson Chitsiko, to chair…
HARARE – Ailing MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has been placed into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Johannesburg hospital after he refused to eat for 10 days due to the alleged ill-treatment of his wife Elizabeth by his family, the Daily News On Sunday can reveal. Elizabeth has been barred from seeing her husband…
HARARE – Civil society organisations recently met to assess the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission’s (NPRC) work, the recently signed NPRC Act, prospects for transitional justice in the country and their role in the process. The meeting organised by the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG), a main driver of civil society’s push for the…
