THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has dismissed several complaints filed by a top Harare businessman, Tendai Mashamanda, seeking a probe into alleged corrupt acts by JSC secretary Walter Chikwana, several Supreme and High Court judges. Mashamanda was accusing the judges of ignoring his numerous complaints and “sweeping them under the carpet”. In his letter to…
By Ketty Nyoni THE escalating slump of the Zimbabwe dollar has reignited debate over whether the country should encourage greater local use of the South African rand. This comes as the prices of basic goods in the country have continued to rise sharply over the past few weeks, a crisis that is largely blamed on…
LAWMAKERS across the political divide are unhappy over the delays by the government to allocate them serviced residential stands they were promised by the government in 2019. However, four years later the MPs are yet to receive the stands and last Thursday, they took the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda to task over…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says a total of 4 562 deceased voters are set to be removed from the voters roll in terms of the Electoral Act if no objections are made. In a general notice published in the Government Gazette, Zec’s chief elections officer Utloile Silaigwana said any person with objections to the…
HEALTH minister Douglas Mombeshora has bemoaned the current state of the country’s health situation saying a lot needed to be done to spruce it up and cater for the ever-growing population. He was speaking at the commissioning the first magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) scan at Bulawayo’s largest referral medical centre, Mpilo Central Hospital on Friday, where…
BY YVONNE NCUBE THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is conducting a feasibility study on the Matobo aquifer as part of the city’s multiple efforts to explore ways of bringing to an end perennial water challenges in the second capital. An aquifer is a body of porous rock with groundwater. Speaking at a stakeholders…
CONSUMERS, unions and business say it is now imperative that authorities convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ meeting to deal with the country’s prices emergency. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, they warned that the current situation could not be allowed to continue if the crisis was not to degenerate into an even bigger national calamity. This…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country will not allow same sex relationships and marriages, authorities have reiterated. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Foreign Affairs minister, Fredrick Shava, said homosexuality ran contrary to both the local culture and laws. He added that Zimbabwe’s re-engagement with Western countries would thus not see authorities sanctioning homosexuality….
THE proposal to construct a new US$100 million Bulawayo water supply, Glass Block dam, viewed as a medium-term measure to address the city’s perennial water crisis, has divided the city fathers. The dam is earmarked for construction in Insiza district, Matabeleland South Province, by a private company. While the government and other stakeholders have approved…
By Ketty Nyoni SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts to be the secretary general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has been nominated as one of the party’s representatives to the Senate. The seats fell vacant at the end of last year when Tshabangu wrote to the Parliament notifying it that he had recalled dozens of…
