PUBLIC sector workers have renewed their push to be paid in foreign currency citing the high cost of living in the country, as seen in skyrocketing prices of basic goods. The chairperson of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), Cecilia Alexandra, pictured, said on Monday that civil servants were now wallowing in…
THE government has escalated its efforts to improve the country’s strategic fuel reserve by procuring US$40 million worth of fuel to hedge them against the uncertainty triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, said the government’s intention was “to maintain at least a 30-day…
A SOCIAL media personality, who was nabbed for allegedly smuggling and selling sex toys to an underage girl in Waterfalls, Harare, has…
THERE was drama yesterday at the Treadgold Building which houses Bulawayo Magistrates’ Courts after a 28-year-old man facing unlawful entry charges fled from the first floor courtroom through a window while his matter was in session. This was after Clarence Burayayi appeared to have been angered by magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa’s suggestion that he be checked…
LIBERATION struggle stalwart Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa to “swallow their pride” and work together to help resolve Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic challenges. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the plainspoken Gumbo — a former Zanu PF bigwig and senior Cabinet minister — said…
THE government said yesterday that the country’s coronavirus situation remained under control as evidenced by the current reduced numbers of pandemic deaths and severe cases. Speaking to the Daily News, the Covid-19 national co-ordinator in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office, Agnes Mahomva, also pleaded with Zimbabweans to remain vigilant againt the disease. This comes amid fears that…
THE government says it is on course to completing work on transforming the remaining 30 transmitters from analogue to digital terrestrial television…
ONE hundred and thirteen heads, directors and board members of illegal Harare schools face arrest with their institutions closed for contravening the Education Act, the government has said. Secretary for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Harare Province Tafadzwa Muguti yesterday said the province has zero tolerance towards lawlessness and corruption. “On the 17th of January 2022,…
FORMER Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, is set to lose his Marondera property after failing to pay back a US$250 000 loan advanced to him by one Exevia Maoneke. The 4 199 square-metre stand was tendered as security in the acquisition of the loan through mortgage bonds that were executed separately on September 7 last…
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, says the need for national dialogue has never been more urgent in the wake of the country’s escalating prices and Zimbabwe dollar crisis. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the MDC boss also warned that the country was headed for even more wretched political and economic times unless bickering politicians…
