HARARE – Zimbabwe Local Government Association (Zilga), comprising 92-local authorities, has pitched for the fielding of female candidates in at least 50 percent of council seats in the forthcoming key 2018 general elections. The powerful organisation — which came out of the merger of Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (Ucaz) and the Association of Rural…
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 – Political careers of a number of bigwigs in Zanu PF are hanging by the thread as more and more cadres in the lower ranks of the party are itching to take them head on during primary polls set for the first quarter of this year, the Daily News can report. In previous party…
HARARE – The National Education Union of Zimbabwe (NEUZ) has blasted the government after declaring that Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers that were on government’s payroll will no longer be funded by Treasury. While government said it recognised the complementary role that parents play in the ECD Programmes, the takeover of management and financing of…
HARARE – Civil society groups have said it was an “outrage” for government to arrest 10 Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) youths who exercised their right to demonstrate in Bulawayo last weekend against President Emmerson Mnangagwa for his alleged involvement in the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide. About 10 youths were allegedly beaten to pulp by members of…
HARARE – MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa has declared his party a government-in-waiting in a triumphant New Year message for 2018. The attorney-at-law and Parliamentarian said “2018 is the year of new ideas, new direction, new dynamism and renewed hope for total change, real change and absolute transformation.” “Let’s make history and make 2018 a…
HARARE – After several months of haggling, the Land Commission Bill is now being submitted to the President for assent and gazetting after the National Assembly ignored amendments proposed by the Senate. While the Bill was passed by the National Assembly in January last year, it suffered a series of setbacks after Senator Chief Mtshane…
