HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been condemned for its continued harassment of families at Arnold Farm in Mazowe in Mashonaland Central, whose homes are being callously destroyed in a bid to evict them without alternative shelter. This is despite a consent order by High Court Judge Justice on March 24 that barred…
MUTARE – Zanu PF youths have vowed to invade Nyanga National Parks and an Allied Timbers plantation in Chimanimani as well as seize urban land in Mutare in a desperate bid to award themselves residential stands before the watershed 2018 elections. Zanu PF Manicaland provincial youth league chairperson Mubuso Chingunu told a provincial youth league…
HARARE – A bumper harvest does not translate into food security for the country if storage facilities are not adequate, World Food Programme country director Eddie Rowe said. In an interview with the Daily News, Rowe said the country’s storage facilities are either in poor shape or non-existent, and thus may affect the country’s maize…
HARARE – Despite the fact that the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) outlawed child marriages, the practice is still common in remote areas like Hurungwe and Magunje as children are marrying early to fend for their families and also because there is nothing to do after school, Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa said. With…
HARARE – After years of mudslinging, the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Tendai Biti, are now back on talking terms with the latter saying it has now realised that it was pandering to Zanu PF whims when it used to attack the former prime minister. Speaking to…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says the chaos and irregularities witnessed in the weekend’s Mwenezi East by-election — which had an unusually high voter turnout despite the warring Zanu PF contesting against little known opponents — were a bad omen for 2018. The MDC’s statement yesterday came in the wake of Zanu PF…
HARARE – The Zanu PF enemies of the party’s under-siege national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, are raining in deadly blows and ratcheting up their fierce assault on him all round — making his political future in the warring former liberation movement look increasingly tenuous. This comes as it was confirmed to the Daily News yesterday…
HARARE – World Food Programme (WFP) has exceeded its school feeding scheme by more than 1 000 from its targeted 76 000 children. In an interview with the Daily News on Sunday, WFP country director Eddie Rowe said the programme had been targeting drought-stricken areas of the country. “We actually surpassed our target and were…
HARARE – When Mwatsara Beta began working as a gold panner along Chiambuka River in Ngorima communal lands of Chimanimani — in the sun, mud and noise of one of Zimbabwe’s prime panning sites, the other miners laughed in disbelief. They asked her if she had mistaken the Chiambuka River for a hairdressing salon. And…
HARARE – Propasals for Zimbabwe to adopt the South African rand as the major instrument of trade amid growing United States dollar shortages has attracted mixed views, with some economists firm that it will boost the economy while some warn it could upend the country’s wealth through devaluation. The comments by leading economists in a…
