HARARE – The entire Manyame River — providing water to more than 3 million Harare residents is contaminated, a top official has warned. Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council (UMSCC) compliance assistant Susan Nyarugwe told commemorations of the UN World Water Day hosted by Wildlife and Environment Zimbabwe (Wez) on Wednesday that Manyame — which connects to…
HARARE – Our news editor Gift Phiri talks to chairperson of Parliament’s Legal and Procedural Affairs Committee, Kuwadzana East MP and opposition MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: You have stirred controversy by reportedly demanding a hike in MP salaries from about $2 000 to $10 000 at a…
HARARE – The prospects for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe next year are remote without some concrete actions now to make that possible, including significant international involvement, a leading think-tank has said. Cape Town-based NKC African Economics said it is not just the potential for rigging that is a concern but the state of…
HARARE – A University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student, Emmanuel Tsuro, who was on attachment at Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) on Friday died from severe burns suffered after a fire erupted when he was conducting a procedure at the company’s laboratory in Harare, the Daily News on Sunday has been told. PSMI yesterday confirmed the…
HARARE – As the watershed 2018 national polls beckon, President Robert Mugabe’s warring ruling Zanu PF is in a big quandary about what to say on account of its dismal failure to deliver on any of its 2013 election promises. Among the promises that are coming back to bite Zanu PF are its utopian pledges…
BULAWAYO – The political careers of embattled Zanu PF women’s league heavyweights, Sarah Mahoka and Eunice Sandi Moyo, now appear dead in the water after the league’s provincial chairpersons — supported by militant youths — staged yet another big demonstration against the duo in Bulawayo yesterday. This prompted a senior Zanu PF official to tell…
BULAWAYO – More than 300 mental health patients and inmates at Mlondolozi Prison are living in better conditions after a refurbishment that created a conducive environment for psychiatric treatment, and social rehabilitation. The institution, situated in the outskirts of Bulawayo, caters for inmates on remand and those doing time. The improved facilities were commissioned by…
BULAWAYO – Former Magwegwe legislator Felix Mafa Sibanda — through his Post-Independent Survivors Trust (Pist) — is moving to pressure government to address Gukurahundi atrocities. The atrocities have become known as the country’s worst genocide. Thousands of men, women and children were shot, starved, and tortured to death by members of the Fifth Brigade as…
HARARE – The on-going water shortages in Harare have forced municipal authorities to deploy water bowsers to parts of the city. This comes as residents of the densely populated Hatcliffe suburb, which receives water only twice a week — have blamed shortages of the precious commodity for causing a cholera outbreak that has so far…
HARARE – Government is clearing its $62 million debt to tertiary institutions, paying $30 000 monthly, the National Assembly has been told. This comes as Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa admitted that the multi-million debt was stifling the development of universities, which now rely on students’ fees as nothing is coming from Treasury. “We…
