TAMARY CHIKIWA WHILE some parents are already scrambling to secure Form 1 places, others in rural areas have not seen their children’s results as they are failing to access them online due to the digital divide. Grade 7 results were released last week Friday and learners have since started applying for Form 1 places. The…
MDC says it has started a process to stop the Nelson Chamisa-led camp from using the MDC Alliance name. This comes amid serious divisions in the MDC emanating from the nasty battle to succeed the late founding father Morgan Tsvangirai, which saw the Supreme Court stripping Chamisa of the party’s presidency and conferring it…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in four new ministers at State House. The four include a Cabinet minister, a provincial affairs minister and two deputy ministers. Chikomba Central MP Felix Mhona took the oath of office as minister of Transport. The post was left vacant following the death of national hero Joel Biggie Matiza last…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO PENSIONERS in Bulawayo have implored the city council to revise new council rates which they say are beyond their reach. Pensioners told the Daily News that their payouts, which range between $400 and $1 500, are not enough to cater for bills that amount to almost $5 000 per month. Henry Lunga, a…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has added two more weeks to the Covid-19 lockdown as authorities prepare to inoculate 60 percent of its citizens after receiving 200 00 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from China earlier today. MORE TO FOLLOW…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, yesterday urged the country’s political leaders to work in the interest of all Zimbabweans and emulate the spirit of magnanimity that was a hallmark of the late founding father of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai. Speaking on the third anniversary of Tsvangirai’s death, Mwonzora also…
Loyd Matare STAFF WRITER matarel@dailynews.co.zw THE government must formulate policies to support and increase the participation of women and girls in science, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said. ZLHR made the call on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science which is celebrated once every year on February…
Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw PEOPLE with disabilities have been ranked the most vulnerable in Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 era as their monthly incomes have shrunk by 50 percent, putting them much lower than the poverty datum line, the United Nations has said. This comes as the government has been struggling to fulfil its…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO A TSHOLOTSHO man is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed with a knife several times in the stomach, leaving his intestines protruding. The man, whose identity was not revealed, told the Tsholotsho Magistrate’s Court that he was stabbed when he tried to stop his attacker, Ndabezihle Matrabuli, 42,…
Lloyd Matare HARARE City Council could face sanctions from the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) after failing to comply with an order to clear garbage that has piled up at bus termini around Mbare. HCC has only managed to clear only three out of seven of the garbage mounds, in violation of Ema’s directive, which became…
