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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has put on notice poorlyperforming local authorities and State entities. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the signing of this year’s performance contracts for Cabinet ministers and senior public sector officials, Mnangagwa added that poor performers were retarding the country’s vision to become an upper-middle class society by 2030. “The performance of local…

Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is engaging residents and other stakeholders on its plans to expand the central business district (CBD) into the two bordering low-density areas of Khumalo and Suburbs in a bid to commercialise them. This came out yesterday during a consultative meeting in the city organised by the local…

By Ketty Nyoni THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has called for the extension of days in the on-going voter registration blitz in areas where the process has been affected by technical difficulties, power cuts and Tropical Storm Freddy-induced heavy rains. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, the opposition party’s elections deputy director Ellen Shiriyedenga said…

ZANU PF is racing against time to conduct and conclude its primaries ahead of the country’s forthcoming elections, amid fierce jockeying for seats and concerns that the internal polls could be delayed to accommodate late candidates. This comes as the party’s provincial and national elections directorates are set to consider the CVs that have already…

By Rutendo Ngara AT LEAST 63 percent of Zimbabweans have no access to a balanced diet, the latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) poverty, income, consumption and expenditure survey (PICES) reveals. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a balanced diet consists of at least 10 percent of proteins, five to 30 percent of fats,…

Rutendo Ngarangarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Civil Protection Department (CPD) says the country remains on alert despite the weakening of Tropical Storm Freddy, which made landfall in the country for the second time, last weekend. This comes as one person was swept away on Monday in Chimanimani, Manicaland Province, while panning gold in a flooded river and the…

By Ketty Nyoni THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has urged consumers to invest in renewable sources of energy, especially solar, as there seems to be no immediate respite to the current rolling power cuts in the country. Speaking at the World Consumer Rights Day celebrations in Harare yesterday, CCZ chief executive Rose Mpofu, pictured,…

OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora wants the Constitutional Court(ConCourt) to annul the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(Zec)’s recently gazetted delimitation report, and stop it from being used in this year’s crunch national elections. In an application filed at the apex court yesterday, Mwonzora said Zec’s delimitation exercise was unconstitutional and should thus be done afresh, incorporating the final…

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says its ongoing final voter registration blitz ahead of the upcoming general elections is being hampered by power outages and bad weather. This comes as the elections management body is targeting to register over 400 000 new voters nationwide during the 10-day period which started on Sunday. Zec yesterday said…