HARARE – Government is yet to engage 2 300 teachers it wants to complement the new curriculum, Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora has told the National Assembly. Dokora was answering to a question by Maramba Pfungwe Zanu PF legislator Mabel Kaundikiza on government policy with regard to the shortage of agriculture teachers in…
HARARE – Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro, who is seeking to attach government property to recover over $1, 5 million confiscated by the police, has approached the Constitutional Court seeking confirmation of a High Court order handed down in March invalidating the State Liabilities Act. Government officials have been using the State Liabilities Act to…
HARARE – The late Daily News staffer, Sharon Muguwu, was laid to rest yesterday at her rural home in Chikomba District. Muguwu, 28, succumbed to leukaemia cancer on Tuesday. She was described by relatives, friends and workmates as a humble and hardworking journalist willing to learn. The only daughter and the first child in a…
HARARE – The annual rate of inflation for the month of May surged by 0,27 percentage points from 0,48 percent in April, spelling more trouble for the embattled consumer. Inflation refers to the rate at which prices are increasing. Before February this year, the country was in negative inflation territory for 29 months running. It…
HARARE – The looming increases in the prices of certain basic commodities due to a government directive to millers and manufacturers to add nutrients in their production is seen fuelling hoarding and creating a black market for the basics. This comes as large-scale millers of mealie-meal and flour as well as manufacturers of sugar and…
HARARE – The politburo would have to reconvene on Wednesday next week after Zanu PF’s supreme decision-making organ outside congress could not conclusively deal with a divisive report presented by a four-member committee set up by President Robert Mugabe to investigate the conduct of the party’s national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere. Led by politburo member…
HARARE – Police have warned that fake roadblocks were being mounted by expelled cops to extort money from motorists. “We are fully aware of the machinations of some unscrupulous elements who have formed a fifth column that masquerades as police, conducting illegal roadblocks, using spikes and collecting money for themselves,” police spokesperson senior assistant commissioner…
HARARE – Chief Justice Luke Malaba yesterday said Cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo did not exhaust all remedies available to him when he approached the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) to challenge the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (Zacc) arresting powers. Malaba said this during the hearing of a constitutional challenge brought before the…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF has taken the unprecedented step of banning its members from bringing cell phones to politburo meetings amid concerns that there were some in the party who are leaking information to the media. Politburo chair, President Robert Mugabe, was in a no-nonsense mood when he arrived at the venue of yesterday’s…
HARARE – Consumers must brace for massive increases in the price of bread, maize-meal, cooking oil and sugar, hovering around 10 percent, as millers begin to comply with a government directive that requires them to add nutrients in the production of these basic products to reduce the long-term effects of poor nutrition among citizens. Beginning…
