HARARE – Schools begin the third term with parents facing a myriad problems including having to fork out steep prices for uniforms and other essential due to cash shortages which have seen retailers introducing different prices under a three-tier payment system. Yesterday, a number of parents complained of their frustrations with the prevailing situation at…
HARARE – Government has hired 2 300 teachers as part of the 7 000 needed to fully implement the Primary and Secondary education curriculum. The teachers are being hired in batches. They are replacing those whose contracts were terminated in the 2016 and 2017 financial year and begin work this week following the re-opening of…
HARARE – Opposition parties and civic society groups have warned that President Robert Mugabe’s proclamation of the voter registration commencement this week and giving its cutoff date will compromise the credibility of the crucial elections due next year. This comes as opposition parties suspect that Mugabe wants to have elections held early next year. Mugabe…
HARARE – The continued onslaught on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) could drive the 74 year-old politician to a point where he might have to make difficult choices if it is indeed true that he harbours ambitions to succeed the incumbent, analysts have said. Since his elevation to the position of vice president in 2014,…
HARARE – Legendary newscaster, Godfrey Majonga, yesterday broke his silence on whether Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa forced him to plunge several storeys out of a Harare apartment window during an alleged clash over a woman in 1987, the Daily News can report. This comes after Mugabe told a bumper crowd in Bindura on Saturday that…
HARARE – Lawyers representing a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, have petitioned police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to take appropriate action against top detective Joseph Nemaisa, who is accused of severely assaulting their client during an unusual arrest at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts recently. Harare lawyer Jonathan Samukange said Nemaisa and his unnamed colleagues,…
HARARE – Leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) have vowed they will go to the ends of the earth to try and stop Zanu PF from its plans to depose them by causing election of a new leadership. This comes as First Lady Grace Mugabe and Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi on…
HARARE – In an unprecedented move, President Robert Mugabe on Saturday revealed hitherto unknown goings-on in Zanu PF — telling thousands of party supporters who gathered in Bindura some of his party’s secrets which included Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s latest dossier he wants to use against Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo in the politburo anytime soon….
HARARE – A planned demonstration by opposition political parties against South Africa’s decision to grant First Lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity after she reportedly assaulted a 20-year-old model is in limbo after the police told the group to first seek clearance from the South African Embassy. The parties coalescing under the National Electoral Reform Agenda…
HARARE – Despite government claims of a bumper harvest, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos in various provinces are not yet full with the national granary still accepting grain from farmers. This comes amid claims by proponents of Command Agriculture and Presidential Input Scheme that GMB depots in many provinces are overflowing with the national…
