THE government is set to enrol its first batch of 750 National Youth Service (NYS) students beginning next month, Information minister Jenfan Muswere has revealed. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Muswere said the NYS, which seeks to provide a platform to groom youth to uphold Zimbabwean values and identity, would resume in…
PARLIAMENT is pushing for the amendment of the country’s laws to enable the government to issue title deeds to rural dwellers. In a motion on National Assembly order paper, MP for Chipinge South Clifford Hlatywayo said giving title deeds to people in rural communities would change their lives for the better. “Rural communities must be…
CIVIL servants yesterday said their negotiations with the government over salaries are now useless owing primarily to their employer’s alleged intransigence. Speaking to the Daily News, Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) secretary-general David Dzatsunga said the volatility of the exchange rate also made their situation worse. “Salary negotiations are becoming useless without…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE new governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John Mushayavanhu, should leave no stone unturned in the quest to shore up the local currency and to stabilise prices. So say economic experts who told the Daily News yesterday, ahead of the expected release of his first monetary policy statement…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw MANY Zimbabweans have criticised the move by the government to ban the importation of personal vehicles that are more than 10 years old. This comes after the government gazetted a Statutory Instrument (SI) last week, which completely outlaws the importation of such vehicles. The secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade…
Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF says it will soon commence an exercise to reorganise its structures from the cell to provincial executives in order to keep the party visible on the ground. This comes as the ruling party last week directed all provinces to stop the restructuring of its district coordinating committees (DCCs) and focus…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE government has called on youth, women as well as people with disabilities to take climate change action and have their voices heard. Speaking to the Daily News on the side-lines of a two-day climate change action training recently, ministry of Environment climate change scientist Tatenda Mutasa said the government was…
THE government has implored schools to initiate peer counselling sessions to curb the rising cases of drug abuse among the youth in the country. Speaking during a drug awareness campaign recently, minister of State for Bulawayo province, Judith Ncube said schools had to play a major role in curbing drug abuse. “We urge schools to…
ACTING Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Welshman Ncube, says the party is stepping up its efforts to end long-running divisions within the country’s opposition. Ncube also told the Daily News at the weekend that although the CCC’s fresh push for national dialogue in the country was in its infancy, he was optimistic that this…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw PARLIAMENT is set to conduct public hearings for the repatriation and reburial of liberation war fighters who died in foreign lands and locally. This comes as many liberation war heroes and heroines were buried mostly in mass, shallow and in some cases unmarked graves in Zambia and Mozambique as the country…
