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Brighton Muronzereyi muronzereyib@dailynews.co.za PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared, posthumously, national hero status to the founding president of Zanu, Ndabaningi Sithole and nationalist James Chikerema. Sithole died in 2000, while Chikerema died in 2006, but were not declared national heroes by the late former president Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa also conferred the same honour to Brigadier General…

Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw NATIONAL Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) yesterday said the country is facing a serious shortage of blood and appealed for more blood donations. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, NBSZ spokesperson Kuda Chidziye said the situation needed immediate intervention.“As NBSZ we are short of all blood types. Statistically, we are below our average…

Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmuronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to always cherish the gains of the liberation struggle and guard against people who seek to foment divisions in the country. Speaking at the National Heroes Acre in Harare yesterday, as the nation marked Heroes’ Day, Mnangagwa also reiterated that his government was committed to engaging…

Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zw CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) party says it will continue to participate in all national events despite their deep-rooted political differences with Zanu PF. In their Heroes’ Day commemoration statement, CCC spokesperson Fadzai Mahere said the party would rise above party politics and continue to participate in national events.“We acknowledge and respect…

INCARCERATED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice chairperson, Job Sikhala, and his comrades have suffered a setback in their bid to be represented by international lawyers, after authorities said yesterday the jurists were not welcome in country. Sikhala, fellow MP Godfrey Sithole and 14 others have been languishing in remand prison since June this…

HARARE has gone for five days without potable water. Residents have dug shallow wells and are relying on open and untreated water sources to cope with the dire situation. Zimbabwe authorities shut down the main water-treatment plant in the capital due to a failure to secure chemicals. “We wish to advise all our clients that…

Melisa ChatikoboSTAFF WRITERchatikobom@dailynews.co.zw MOTORISTS in the capital will have to contend with even higher parking fees, after the Harare City Council (HCC) hiked its charges again yesterday. The increase comes as motorists in Bulawayo have been boycotting central business district (CBD) parking in the second city, after a company working with the council there recently…

masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw  A HARARE house maid has been nabbed on allegations of conniving with her boyfriend to rob her employer. Laina Mabhauti,  26, allegedly left the door open for her boyfriend and his accomplices to gain entry without hurdles before making away with money and other valuables. She was not asked to plead to robbery charges…

OUTSPOKEN former Cabinet minister and still Zanu PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube, has pooh-poohed ongoing calls for the exhumation of the revered late vice president, Joshua Nkomo, from the National Heroes Acre in Harare for reburial at his rural home in Kezi, Matabeleland South. Speaking on Thursday on independent television station 3Ktv’s popular programme, Vantage,…