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LEGISLATORS have pressurised Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to increase their supplementary budget vote to $15 billion which will cater for their welfare and Constituency Development Fund (CDF). This comes after Parliament last week arm-twisted Treasury to avail an additional $2 billion budget which pushed Parliament’s vote to $4,8 billion. Debating the recently passed supplementary budget,…

Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITER WOMEN Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni has called for a gender equality approach that is inclusive of men to avoid future gender imbalances against men. Speaking at the 30th anniversary celebrations of Care International in Zimbabwe held in Harare on Thursday, Nyoni said for the country to be able to eradicate poverty there…

A PIRATE taxi driver who hit pedestrians at a bus terminus while doing car burnouts in the Central Business District of Harare has been denied bail. Garish Tsamvi was captured in a video that went viral on social media while driving a white Toyota Fun Cargo vehicle with his door open and is shown being…

Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITERjosphatb@dailynews.co.zw CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has bemoaned rising political violence in the country, saying the international community now needed to intervene ahead of next year’s elections. Speaking at a press conference in Harare yesterday, Chamisa claimed that Zanu PF supporters were behind the violence and unleashing terror on political…

THE government will in future allow healthcare professionals to go on strike when they are not satisfied with their conditions of work. This was revealed in Parliament on Wednesday by Health and Child Care deputy minister, John Mangwiro, during the second reading of the Health Service Amendment Bill. Mangwiro said the proposed law would be…

BUSINESSMAN Wicknell Chivayo will now stand trial on September 1 in a fraud case in which he is alleged to have swindled the Zimbabwe Power Company of US$5,6 million in the Gwanda Solar Project. Chivayo’s forthcoming trial follows the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse his acquittal by the High Court. This was after the National…

Dionne KanyowaSTAFF WRITERkanyowad@dailynews.co.zw INCARCERATED former Mines permanent secretary Francis Gudyanga’s appeal against conviction and a two-year custodial sentence for criminal abuse of office has been dismissed. Gudyanga, whose sentence was handed down at the magistrates’ court in February this year, was represented by Advocate Sylvester Hashiti when he appeared before High Court judges Justices Benjamin…

Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE move by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to peg the nomination fees in foreign currency encourages foreign sponsorship and inflames external financial influence to the country’s democracy, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) says. This comes amid an outcry from would-be candidates in the polls who have described the US$20…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling a review of the proposed high fees that presidential and legislative hopefuls are set to be charged when they take part in next year’s national elections. This comes amid an outcry from aspirant candidates who have described the US$20 000 and the US$1 000 that presidential hopefuls and parliamentary contestants…