BY STELLA MADZIVANYIKA THE Agricultural Marketing Authority (Ama) has started the distribution of cotton inputs for the 2024/2025 summer season across the country. The country is targeting to produce 270 000 metric tonnes of cotton from 180 000 hectares to be planted in the upcoming season. In a statement yesterday, Ama said the initiative was…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned rabble rousers within Zanu PF that their agenda to foment divisions within the ruling party will fail, and that they will be dealt with decisively. Opening the Zanu PF annual conference here yesterday, Mnangagwa also reminded all followers of the former liberation movement that no party member was bigger than…
THE Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) has reached over one million school children this year, the minister of Public Service and Social…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa officially launched Zimbabwe’s online National Anti-Sanctions Petition which seeks to rally Zimbabweans at home and abroad in a unified call for the removal of Western-imposed sanctions. The initiative seeks to collect one million signatures in a call for the unconditional removal of sanctions imposed by Western nations, a stance…
By Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe has been dragged into a Chegutu land dispute between one Simbarashe Mhungu and Eunice Chahwanda where the latter occupied a piece of land in the former’s farm. According to court papers, the land measuring 260 hectares belongs to Mhungu who has an offer letter which he…
By Nyasha KunyiswaSENIOR STAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw PARIRENYATWA hospital says most women are taking a long time to get screening for breast cancer This comes after Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating breast cancer awareness month in October.Addressing the media in Harare on Thursday, the hospital head of department for radiotherapy Nothando Mutizira encouraged…
Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi ZANU PF’s annual conference, which officially gets under way in Bulawayo today, will focus on coming up with more policies to further improve the lives of all Zimbabweans. So said the spokesperson of the ruling party, Christopher Mutsvangwa, who also told the Daily News yesterday that the former liberation movement…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s ongoing power crisis is seriously affecting critical services at the country’s hospitals, Health minister Douglas Mombeshora has said. Speaking during the handover of solar equipment to the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (Natpharm) in Harare yesterday, Mombeshora confirmed that health facilities were struggling to keep up essential services due…
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has implored the government to build resilient education systems equipped with adequate digital platforms to ensure all children get necessary skills. In a statement yesterday, ZLHR said resilient education systems were not only crucial in Zimbabwe, but in the whole African continent. “In some African countries such as…
Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw SADC chairperson, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, says illegal sanctions imposed by Western countries continue to derail the country’s economic development hence the need for them to be lifted. This comes as today (25 October) was set aside by Sadc countries to call for the removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe. Mnangagwa yesterday said…
