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TAMARY CHIKIWA  PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday described the late Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso (SB)  Moyo as a dedicated cadre who played a pivotal role in negotiating the lifting of illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States and its Western allies and reuniting the diaspora community  with their motherland.  Speaking during Moyo’s memorial service held at…

MELISA CHATIKOBO ZIMBABWE’S livestock sector has been told to identify its own domestic markets before it seeks to export as it is still struggling to meet local demand.  Speaking during a workshop organised by the Competition and Tariff Commission and Livestock Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) in Harare recently, economist Reneth Mano said the sector is…

ANDILE TSHUMA CHURCHES have joined the fight against gender-based violence (GBV), calling for love, peace, social cohesion and tolerance from congregations especially during this 16 Days Against GBV.   Speaking to Daily News on Sunday yesterday, Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) executive director Useni Sibanda said they were rallying churches under its umbrella body countrywide to introduce…

THE government is currently not contemplating re-introducing a hard national coronavirus lockdown to contain rising cases of the lethal respiratory disease in the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the national Covid-19 co-ordinator in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office, Agnes Mahomva, said authorities had gained enough experience to appreciate that hard lockdowns disrupted businesses and livelihoods terribly….

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, has ordered banks not to convert civil servants’ bonuses from United States dollars (US$) and pay them out in local currency.  This comes as the government workers started receiving their 13th cheque last month ahead of the festive season. “As of November 30, 2021, bonus payments in foreign currency have been…

Melisa Chatikobo  THE government in collaboration with the Food Agriculture Organisation (Fao) has embarked on a land reclamation and forest restoration exercise as it scales up the fight against food insecurity.  Fao working with the ministry of Environment, and other stakeholders has managed to complete development of a US$10,4 million project which will promote sustainable…

Rumbidzai Ngwenya  ZIMBABWEANS have been urged to change behaviours that lead to climate change as the world at large is battling with the effects of excessive emissions of greenhouse gases that are destroying the ozone layer.  Following the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (Cop 26) that was held last month in Glasgow, the UN…

RELATIONS between Harare and London — which had lately showed signs of thawing — are regressing, with both sides increasingly taking hardline stances towards each other again. Political analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday attributed the fresh tensions between the two sides to Zimbabwe’s fast-approaching 2023 national elections and the pressure that UK Prime Minister…

ZANU PF is moving to end party fights after politburo members on Wednesday agreed that no province will run its own elections, but they will deploy other provinces to supervise.  This comes as factionalism which reared its ugly head during the last days of the former president Robert Mugabe is now threatening to tear the…