CIVIL society leaders and churches in Matabeleland have rejected plans by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to take leading roles in the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 1980s killings, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as Mnangagwa is set to convene a meeting with Matabeleland chiefs, to co-ordinate and fast…
ACTING chairperson of Parliament’s Women Affairs portfolio committee Miriam Chikukwa has disputed Higher and Tertiary Education ministry’s assertion that only three cases of sexual harassment of female students in tertiary institutions had been reported in the past year. Presenting oral evidence before the Women Affairs portfolio committee, Thomas Pamire from the Higher and Tertiary Education,…
FOR nearly two years, Zimbabwe has been experiencing fuel challenges characterised by intermittent supply in a two-pronged problem caused by foreign currency shortages and the country’s failure to produce. While authorities claim that there are enough stocks of fuel in the country, it is only accessible from fuel traders after the government through the Reserve…
ZIMBABWE is facing the threat of the lethal coronavirus anew, after a woman who was earlier detained in a Harare hospital — but was later released after testing negative to the virus — was re-admitted yesterday after her health deteriorated, the Daily News reports. This comes as the deadly virus — which has killed nearly…
POOR Zimbabweans may soon feel the pinch of the country’s economic woes even more, after business warned yesterday that it could soon be forced to start charging all goods and services in United States dollars, the Daily News reports. The threat by big business, which underlines the growing lack of market confidence in the Zim…
MEMBER states at the just ended African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (AFRSD) adopted the Forum’s declaration, dubbed the Victoria Falls Declaration, which places major focus on accelerating action to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2020 while pushing Africa’s agenda 2063. During the closing ceremony of the Forum which ran from February 24…
FIVE people were this week killed across the country over petty disputes, the Daily News can report. In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi warned the public against taking matters into their hands, which results in unnecessary deaths. “In Silobela, on February 25, 2020, two men who were drinking beer at a bar…
ZBC yesterday told the parliamentary portfolio committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services that it will soon enact a policy that prohibits its staffers from contesting in future political elections. This comes after the State broadcaster came under fire after some of its employees contested in the 2018 harmonised elections on Zanu PF ticket and…
THERE is no respite in sight for long-suffering Zimbabweans, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) joining other important bodies this week in warning that the country is headed for a mega economic and humanitarian crisis, the Daily News reports. Rather damningly, the IMF — one of the few key international organisations that have not been…
CIVIL servants have not only rejected the government’s plans to introduce a welfare fund — that will see them contributing 2,5 percent of their salary to this pot every month — they have also slammed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, for the idea, the Daily News reports. This comes after the government announced on Wednesday…
