HARARE – Harare’s potholed roads could be rehabilitated if Harare City Council (HCC) signs an agreement with a Chinese firm Sinohydro Corporation Limited. HCC’s director of works Phillip Pfukwa told the environmental management committee that Sinohydro had already submitted their expression of interest in the rehabilitation of the city’s roads as well as treatment of…
HARARE – Zimbabweans from all walks of life yesterday bemoaned the wretched life that they continue to endure under President Robert Mugabe and his warring Zanu PF’s misrule of the past 37 years of the country’s independence from Britain. This comes as Zimbabwe’s economy continues to die — as manifested by rising poverty levels and…
HARARE – Hyenas continue to prowl at the door of embattled Zanu PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, with his party enemies vowing yesterday that it is “just a matter of time” before he faces the firing squad in the warring former liberation movement. This comes as it emerged yesterday that Manicaland is now also…
MUTARE – Poor planning and lack of market linkages are responsible for the huge post harvest loses local farmers routinely suffer, a senior government official has said. Agritex director, Bernard Mache told the Daily News on the sidelines of a Multi-sectoral Community Based Approach Stunting (MCBAS) meeting that farmers needed to secure markets and monitor…
HARARE – The police service has started incentivising the neighbourhood watch committees by giving them job offers and uniforms, Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni has said. The neighbourhood watch scheme was introduced in 1984 by the police in a bid to involve the public in policing issues. The scheme mainly targets property owners who…
HARARE – National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) has demanded that President Robert Mugabe disbands the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) after it failed to censure his ruling Zanu PF over electoral violations in recent by-elections. The lobby group’s head of legal affairs, Douglas Mwonzora, told the Daily News recently that Zec failed the basic test of…
HARARE – A Domboshawa man brutally stabbed his wife with a knife for refusing to move from their Hatcliffe residence to his rural home, a Harare court heard yesterday. Moregood Mverechena, 32, of Mudzimu Village in Chinamora in Domboshawa appeared before Harare regional magistrate Noel Mupeiwa facing attempted murder charges. He was remanded in custody…
HARARE – Villagers re-located to a sprawling farm complex in Zvishavane to make way for a platinum mine have said their living conditions are appalling. Scores of families were moved in 2002 from a village adjacent to the Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats) Zimbabwe unit’s Unki Mine field in Shurugwi to Zvishavane, a farm settlement about…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s consumer price inflation rose by 0,21 percent year-on-year in March from a 0,06 percent increase in February, according to data from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat). This comes after inflation moved into positive territory for the first time in two years in February. “The year-on-year inflation rate (annual percentage change) for…
HARARE – Tobacco farmers are struggling to get their money at auction floors, as the country’s severe cash crunch continues to worsen. This is despite the government’s recent directive to banks to pay tobacco farmers $1 000 for their initial sales. Frustrated farmers who spoke to the Daily News yesterday confirmed that they had battled…
