HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa will next week meet with traditional leaders in the Midlands capital of Gweru, his spokesperson George Charamba has said. In a statement yesterday, Charamba said Mnangagwa was scheduled to meet all the country’s 282 chiefs on January 12 “as part of his ongoing programme to connect and acquaint himself with…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is set to commence voter education for the biometric voter registration (BVR) mop-up exercise this Saturday. The final registration blitz will then begin on January 10. Zec acting chairperson Emmanuel Magade told the Daily News on Tuesday that the mop up exercise will run until February 8. [GoogleAd]…
HARARE – Zanu PF faces a major headache following revelations that a number of legislators linked to the Generation 40 (G40) faction are mulling shifting their allegiance to former vice president Joice Mujuru’s National People’s Party (NPP). A well-placed source in Zanu PF told the Daily News yesterday that “dozens” of the party’s Members of…
MUTARE – Hoteliers are calling on government to expedite the establishment of a one-stop-border-post (OSBP) at Forbes and Machipanda border posts in the face of growing complaints from tourists who are spending long hours at the entry points. Although Zimbabwe piloted the OSBP concept some time back, it has fallen behind in terms of its…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) must go for a fresh congress to elect a new leadership after the top guns in the association bagged plush jobs in government and the ruling party Zanu PF, analysts have said. Following the inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, ZNLWVA chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa was appointed special…
HARARE – The KARIBA Municipality (MOK) has partnered with the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) to drive housing supply in the resort town. According to a notice by the local authority’s town clerk Webster Tembo, the project will deliver housing stands in the low density area of Kasese at $8 per square metre and…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is proposing amending the food hygiene by-law to include a clause on how food handlers operate and will be regulated. According to environmental committee minutes, the by-law had skipped food handlers and only concentrated on the premises. In the minutes, council noted that the old by-law was half-baked because…
HARARE – Public hospitals could be driven towards the brink of closure through the implementation of a long-standing government policy compelling them to offer free treatment to expecting mothers, children under the age of five, and citizens above the age of 65 years. This follows a recent directive issued by the ministry of Health and…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will next week hold crisis meetings of his party’s top organs in a bid crush dissent and re-energise the movement that appears to be running out of steam ahead of crucial polls. Tsvangirai, who has been in the opposition trenches for nearly two decades, is expected to read the…
HARARE – With only a few months left before make-or-break polls, the country’s opposition parties are in disarray due to the never-ending inter-party fights over issues that would otherwise pale into insignificance when compared with their desire to wrest power from Zanu PF, the Daily News can report. It had been widely expected that the…
