THE government and families of people who were slain during the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s — mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands — are at loggerheads over the official reference to the killings, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has recently stepped up its efforts to try and bring closure to…
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the country’s biggest opposition party, political analysts have said. Sikhala was arrested in July last year after he told an MDC rally in Bikita that Mnangagwa would be overthrown before the 2023…
THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has urged government to provide decent and fair working conditions in the health sector to avoid unnecessary conflicts between healthcare workers. This comes as doctors and nurses last week clashed over working hours after the latter complained that doctors are not reporting for duty as much as expected,…
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi has been sucked into a poultry scam after it was revealed in court yesterday that he allegedly recommended engagement of convicted rapist Munyaradzi Kereke to facilitate donor coordination, banking and finance in the institution. This was revealed during the trial of Nobert Chomurenga, 58, a senior…
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) yesterday tightened screws on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government after they maintained sanctions against the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), citing human rights abuses against civilians by the security forces. The European Union Council of Foreign Ministers of all 27 member states of the group resolved to maintain the arms embargo to prod…
OVER 60 percent of men are looking after children who are not their own, data analysis for tests conducted on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) specimens tested by Global DNA Zimbabwe for the year 2019 reveals. The 2019 statistics, which produced a 63 percent negative result, is lower than the 2018 statistical evaluation which showed 70 percent….
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he will approach Sadc and the African Union (AU) in a bid to compel the government to accept former South African President Thabo Mbeki as a mediator in the country’s political deadlock, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has effectively vetoed Mbeki’s mediation efforts by insisting that…
AS ZIMBABWE battles to rebuild its broken health delivery system, Parirenyatwa Hospital is to set up a centre to perform open heart surgeries, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country’s public health system has been plagued by myriad challenges over the past two decades, including operating with obsolete equipment and suffering acute shortages…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says the government must strengthen its social security nets to compliment humanitarian aid being offered to food insecure families. This comes at a time when the country’s food and economic crises are worsening with about eight million people facing starvation. It also comes after the WFP recently revealed that it…
LOCAL non-governmental organisations under the banner of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) have appealed to the public to reject the recently-gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill, saying it takes the country back to dictatorship. The much-criticised Amendment Bill proposes changes ranging from scrapping the contentious provision of presidential running mates to the selection of judges and prosecutors…
