HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa left the country in suspense yesterday after he deferred naming his two deputies to another day, the Daily News can report. “We have vacancies for vice presidents (VPs). This will need me to clear other areas, so I am delaying the appointments of these two for another two days,” Mnangagwa…
HARARE – The opposition MDC is heading for an implosion that could seriously expose the party amid intense jostling for power as well as growing opposition to the MDC Alliance. With MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s health failing him, party insiders told the Daily News that MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe and her allies are convinced…
HARARE – It’s exactly a month since the then Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) Major General Sibusiso Moyo — now Foreign Affairs minister — went on national television announcing a military takeover of government in Zimbabwe also promising to arrest criminals that were around former president Robert Mugabe. A lot has happened since then and in…
HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has said it will soon be decentralising the High Court to other parts of the country in a bid to provide efficient service delivery to members of the public. Speaking to journalists yesterday after the appointment of eight High Court judges, judge president George Chiweshe said they will…
HARARE – Typhoid has continued to break out in Harare, the Health and Child Care ministry said in a notice, warning of further disease outbreaks unless sanitation is restored in the capital currently under appalling conditions. At least 646 cases of typhoid were confirmed by the ministry, and its epicentre is Mbare. The first case…
HARARE – The number of foreign tourists visiting Zimbabwe are projected to jump by around 10 percent on the back of the recent political transition, the Zimbabwe Council for Tourism (ZCT) has said, putting the country firmly on track for another record year for tourism. “The previous year (2016) our target was 2,1 million tourists…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) in collaboration with the Election Resource Centre (ERC) has been carrying out documentation clinics in the Matabeleland region to assist potential voters to get documented and registered to vote. ZimRights engaged Abammeli Lawyers for Human Rights Network to do documentation of beneficiaries, where they assisted in drafting…
HARARE – The government is picking up the tab for former president Robert Mugabe, 93, who has flown to Singapore for a medical check-up, his ex-spokesperson said on Thursday. Mugabe and his wife Grace have not been seen in public since he was forced to resign after a military takeover brought a sudden end to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is receiving a significant boost to its drug supplies, allowing it to expand its health care interventions after collecting $18 million from an airtime tax introduced earlier this year. Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa said what remained was to improve drug distribution efficiency to hospitals and clinics, as drugs stocks…
HARARE – Government is in a fix over the fate of thousands of Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers churned out by primary teacher-training colleges. This comes in the wake of pronouncements by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in the national budget that government can no longer afford to employ ECD teachers. “Government recognises the complementary role…
