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Brighton Muronzereyi muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council has stopped installing pre-paid water meters for residents amid funding challenges and reports that the billing gadgets were being vandalised. This comes as the local authority had installed the meters in a pilot project in Sunningdale and Kambuzuma. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, city spokesperson Michael Chideme said the removal…

Cloud Fusire fusirec@dailynews.co.zw THE football fraternity has reacted with anger to Zimbabwe’s axing from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. This came after the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) refused to reinstate the suspended Zifa board led by Felton Kamambo at least two weeks before the start of the qualifiers, in line with Fifa’s…

Jeffrey Muvundusi muvundusi@dailynews.co.zw IN A move that is set to stir emotions and raise much debate, the son of the late veteran nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo — Sibangilizwe — is stepping up his bid to have the remains of his father exhumed from the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Sibangalizwe, who now leads ZAPU, says…

Melisa Chatikobo BLACK farmers who lost land during the land reform programme will either get back their property, while others will be included in the US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Deed for white farmers, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has said. Speaking to the Daily News on the sidelines of the borehole rigs handover ceremony to Zimbabwe Water Authority…

AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro has been granted $50 000 bail, ending his incarceration on allegations of conniving in defrauding the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) of fertiliser and seeds worth US$73 000. Karoro yesterday described his arrest as the work of his political adversaries eying his political seat in Mbire constituency when he appeared before…

Andile Tshuma THE government has called on policy makers to consider the interests of indigenous communities who bear the brunt of human-wildlife conflict. In his welcome remarks at the African Elephant Conference in Hwange yesterday, permanent secretary in the Environment ministry, Munesu Munodawafa said communities should be catered for as the results of high elephant…

IT IS just a matter of time before President Emmerson Mnangagwa gets on top of the current prices crisis facing the country, his spokesperson George Charamba has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Charamba also said Mnangagwa’s detractors who lived under the “illusion” that the surging prices of basic goods would still be an issue during…

Hazel Marimbiza  THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says they are engaging the government so that school’s curriculum includes anti-corruption subjects and civil servants must be also trained to curb the scourge. Speaking to the Daily News in an interview yesterday, Zacc spokesperson John Makamure said the graft body and relevant stakeholders have come to a general consensus…