Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO THE Mozambique Ports and Railways (MPR) has rescued the National Rail- ways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) through provision of 150 wagons and four locomotives in a bid to recoup the struggling parastatal’s operations. Speaking after an inaugural meet- ing between the two firms held in Bulawayo last week, MPR president and chairperson…
ALL indications are that the country’s much-talked-about national dialogue is edging ever closer, with authoritative sources telling the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora were happy with National Assembly Speaker, Jacob Mudenda, being the mediator for the mooted talks. Contacted for a comment, Mudenda himself would neither…
REFERRAL hospitals are starting to discharge patients with less life-threatening conditions, while also being more selective about who gets admitted, to create space for people suffering from coronavirus — as the lethal respiratory disease threatens to spiral out of control in the country. Among the major health institutions taking these measures is Zimbabwe’s biggest referral…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora have agreed to join forces to canvass support from other African countries for Chief Fortune Charumbira’s Pan-African Parliament (PAP) presidency bid. Charumbira will battle it out with Haidara Aichata Cisse from Mali and South Sudan’s Albino Mathom Ayuel Aboug when PAP reconvenes in October to choose a…
POLICE shot dead one armed robber and wounded three others in separate incidents at the weekend as authorities launched a full scale war against violent crime in the country. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned criminals that his government would come down hard on them. It also comes amid a spike in the…
HARARE regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje has thrown out MDC Alliance Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala’s application in which he sought to have his charges of publishing falsehoods quashed. Through his lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, Sikhala had applied for the quashing of the charges, arguing that the High Court had declared that there was no such an…
By Tariro Sajeni and Mugove Tafirenyika AMID continuing public complacency, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, has hinted that the government could soon make it mandatory for people to be vaccinated against coronavirus, after the lethal disease claimed at least 96 lives this month alone. Speaking in Harare yesterday, after receiving about US$1,4 million worth of…
THE MDC Alliance has expressed concern over the low voter registration, blaming it on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), which it said has few registration centres across the country. Addressing the media this week, MDC Alliance secretary for elections, Ian Makone said that the current Zec centres were not enough to cater for all…
A BULAWAYO man of fixed abode, who strangled his 81-year-old ex-employer to death in Upper Rangemore, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in jail by the High Court. Iphithule Moyo was found guilty of killing Naomi Titsha during a salary dispute that occurred in May last year. Bulawayo High Court judge,…
ZANU PF acting-political commissar Patrick Chinamasa has threatened to go after and deregister non-governmental organisations (NGOs) deemed hostile to Zimbabwe and are pushing a regime change agenda. This comes as the ruling party and President Emmerson Mnanagwa’s government has come under constant criticism especially from human rights-based NGOs and civic society over a number of…
