By Rutendo Ngara MAJOR differences remain between the government and public sector trade unions over salary negotiations and other conditions of employment for civil servants. This comes as restless civil servants who say they are currently “incapacitated” have turned down the offer which the government brought to the National Joint Negotiating Forum (NJNF) on Friday…
THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) has made an impassioned plea to politicians not to divide the nation. In a recent pastoral letter, the ZCBC said politicians must thus campaign peacefully ahead of next month’s polls, bearing in mind that after the elections there would still be a need to build Zimbabwe and to unite…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) says Zimbabwe is among Southern African countries that are likely to receive below normal rainfalls in the 2023/24 rainy season owing to El Nino conditions. Fewsnet is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) global provider of timely, accurate, evidence-based, and transparent early warning…
Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE Bindura magistrates court has dismissed an appeal filed by the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party challenging a police ban of its campaign rally. Addressing the media after Bindura magistrate Mary Msika made her ruling, CCC lawyer Agency Gumbo slammed what he termed selective application of the law by the…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO SOME Bulawayo residents have hailed the recently enacted Marriages Act as a step forward on the journey to empower women in the country. This comes as the Law Development Commission, under the ministry of Justice held public engagements in Bulawayo last Friday to shed light on the provisions introduced by the…
WITH prices of basic goods continuing to hold steady in retail shops, both experts and consumers say it is crucial that authorities jazz up the recent measures that they put in place to fix the country’s ailing economy. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, experts and consumer watchdogs said it was…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT POLICE say they could not sanction the venue that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) intended to use for their star rally, as it needed approval from other stakeholders. This comes after police had stopped CCC from holding their star rally in Bindura today. In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has given unscrupulous business entities defying government economic policies a one week ultimatum to desist from hoarding basic commodities and manipulating the economy. This comes after authorities have claimed that there are some companies and individuals that want to sabotage the government’s economic development efforts so that citizens turn…
SOUTH AFRICAN opposition leader Julius Malema has offered transport to Zimbabweans living there who are registered to vote in this year’s general elections to come home and exercise their right. Addressing the media on Thursday, Malema, who leads the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), said his party was ready to hire buses to transport Zimbabweans so…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THE Airports Companies of Zimbabwe (ACZ) is eyeing the expansion of the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (JMN) Airport runway in Bulawayo, as well as rehabilitating other airports in the country. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, chief executive officer of ACZ, Tawanda Gusha, said with the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport…
