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THE Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has distanced the organisation from its deputy president Passion Java’s endorsement of Mashonaland West Provincial Affair minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka’s candidature for the Zanu PF chair post, saying the empowerment lobby group is apolitical. The Mashonaland West chairpersonship post fell vacant after Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was last month appointed by…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has given the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) an ultimatum to recover all externalised funds and assets, while also urging…

FINANCIAL challenges are delaying the completion of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam, amid claims the Chinese contractor — China International Water and Electric Corporation (CIWE) — is owed millions of dollars by the government dating back to 2018. The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) resident engineer, Paul Denge told minister of State for Presidential Affairs Responsible for…

CHEGUTU West legislator Dexter Nduna has filed a court application seeking to compel the Chegutu Rural District Council (CRDC) to allocate residential…

THE government says fake news and lack of discipline by a large cross-section of ordinary Zimbabweans have been militating against vaccinating as many citizens as possible. However and despite these, the authorities said they remained hopeful of providing the jabs to at least 10 million people by year end to reach much-needed national herd immunity….

BUSINESSMAN Philip Chiyangwa has filed a Supreme Court appeal against a High Court judgment nullifying the property magnate’s sale of 526 hectares of land in Chegutu to the National Social Security Authority (Nssa). High Court judge Charles Hungwe, recently invalidated the deal between a firm owned by Chiyangwa, Gabroc Enterprises (Gabroc), and Nssa, arguing the…

WITH nearly 5 000 teenage girls falling pregnant between January and February alone this year and 1 800 ending up in early marriages, the question now is whether or not to give them contraceptives at such tender age. While authorities are blaming it on the Covid-19-induced lockdown, which left many children idle after schools were…

BOTH the government and health experts are optimistic that the arrival of more coronavirus vaccines in Zimbabwe will help to curb the…