IT IS looking increasingly unlikely that the ruling Zanu PF and the opposition will agree on much-debated electoral reforms ahead of the fast-approaching 2023 harmonised elections. This has caught the under-pressure opposition on the horns of a dilemma — where they have to choose between two equally difficult choices: to participate in, or to boycott…
BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI POLICE have threatened to clamp down, name and shame people who are allegedly using the name of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family to commit criminal activities. In a statement yesterday, the police said they have received numerous reports of criminal acts being committed by suspects who are openly abusing Mnangagwa and the…
DEVELOPMENT agencies and non-governmental organisations involved in food relief programmes should use existing distribution channels to pro- mote transparency and avert corruption, the government has said. This comes at a time government has adopted a food deficit mitigation strategy meant to provide relief to 3.8 million food insecure people.Addressing a food deficit mitigation strategy sensitisation…
BRANDON JOSPHAT THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has requested the government to pay teachers a US$200 cushion allowance to enable them to return to school tomorrow. This comes after teachers’ unions said the failure by the government to address their salary grievances would force them to go on industrial action when schools…
TAMARY CHIKIWA LOCALS have challenged the government to rehabilitate roads linking rural and urban areas which they say are now in a deplorable state. Contributing during a stakeholders meeting that was attended by rural farmers, captains of the industry and government officials held in Zvishavane on Thursday, Andrew Masango, a horticulture farmer based in rural…
Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmurozereyib@dailynews.co.zw BOTSWANA and Zimbabwe are going to strengthen their border security and put in place measures to curb the spread of animal diseases. Officially opening the 112 edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show in Harare yesterday, Botswana president Mokgweetsi Masisi said six months ago in Victoria Falls the two countries had formalised and…
Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has expressed concern over the conduct of public officials, saying their corruption rate remains the highest and keeps on increasing. This comes after several public officials have been arrested by Zacc for crimes involving money laundering and criminal abuse of office, among other cases. Zacc yesterday said…
Hazel Marimbiza in BULAWAYO THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has intensified efforts to curb increasing vandalism cases against its property by introducing various measures, including use of drones to protect railway equipment. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, NRZ loss control and security officer Richard Mhakure said they were concerned with the rate at…
Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmuronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE government has created an inter-ministerial committee to establish a border authority, which will coordinate movement and activities to ease chaos on the country’s ports of entry. Speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said the country was experiencing chaos on its ports of entry hence the need…
Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmuronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF says its recent victory in the closely-watched Gokwe-Kabuyuni parliamentary by-election is a harbinger of worse things to come for the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), as the 2023 polls loom. Speaking last night on national independent television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa also…
