HARARE – The commission set up to probe corruption at Chitungwiza Town Council is planning to conduct a skills audit of the local authority’s employees, the Daily News has learnt. The Madzudzo Pawadyira-led team reportedly wants to weed out all staff members employed without requisite qualifications. This comes after Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere suspended…
HARARE – Joice Mujuru’s opposition National People’s Party (NPP) is set to hold its elective convention in Harare next month. While her spokesperson, Gift Nyandoro, could not reveal the exact date of the fledgling party’s inaugural congress “for strategic and security reasons”, he told the Daily News that the rallies NPP is currently holding were…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has reshuffled a number of permanent secretaries, chief secretary to the Cabinet Misheck Sibanda announced yesterday. Thokozile Chitepo has been moved from the Rural Development ministry to replace retired Florence Nhekairo as the Tourism ministry permanent secretary. Long-serving civil servant Francis Gudyanga — who was Mines ministry secretary — is…
HARARE – The fatal policy inconsistencies of President Robert Mugabe’s ever-blundering government — which have left the Zimbabwean economy on its knees — have once again been cruelly exposed. This comes after Industry and Commerce minister Mika Bimha said yesterday that the ban on the importation of basic consumer goods into the country would stay…
HARARE – Terror-stricken supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s warring ruling Zanu PF say the former liberation movement’s mindless bloodletting is fast reaching “a tipping point” — after its followers in Bulawayo engaged in an unprecedented orgy of intra-party violence at the weekend. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, a shaken senior party official in Bulawayo…
BULAWAYO – The Welshman Ncube-led MDC has unfurled a door-to-door voter registration campaign in Matabeleland dubbed #valangebhetshu. Party spokesperson Kurauone Chihwayi said the campaign — which is being carried out by party members from all the structures — has so far covered areas such as Makokoba, Pumula, Luveve suburbs and the city centre. Chihwayi said…
HARARE – Harare CBD shop operators are now boycotting paying rates arguing the influx of vendors is dampening their businesses. Acting town clerk Josephine Ncube told councillors of the informal sector committee that the boycott was in protest over vendors eating into their profits while they also littered their shop fronts. With unemployment hovering above…
HARARE – Legislators last week grilled Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere over land degradation caused by Chinese mining companies. According to the legislators, the Chinese conduct has created conflict in Karoi where they are extracting sand from Badze River. Zanu PF proportional representation legislator Goodluck Kwaramba was the first to take the minister — who…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is far from digital migration in accordance with the International Telecommunications Union, as the country is still to complete the process nearly three years after the deadline, experts said. The country was required to migrate from the current analogue broadcasting technology to the digital broadcasting technology by June 17, 2015. The migration…
HARARE – A Harare man, Tofara Dube, has launched a website that provides mathematics tutorials in local languages. He said the move is part of efforts to assist students in easily grasping the subject’s key concepts. This follows the introduction of a new education curriculum, which demands that children in Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres…
