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'Support Zanu-PF, Mnangagwa for peace'
President of the Chiefs Council, Fortune Charumbira, has once again demanded that all traditional leaders must support President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF to promote peace in the country....Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:49hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa touched by Battlefields tragedy
President Mnangagwa has mourned artisanal miners who perished after mining shafts at Cricket No. 3 and Jongwe Mining Cooperative in Mhondoro-Ngezi were flooded on Tuesday. It is estimated that...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:51hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
24 bodies retrieved from flooded Zimbabwe gold mine
Rescue workers retrieved 24 bodies and eight survivors Saturday from two flooded gold mines in Zimbabwe where officials fear dozens more illegal miners are still trapped, state television reported....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:38hrs | 4506 | by AFP
WATCH: 8 miners pulled out alive after 5 days in flooded tunnel
Rescuers pulled out eight illegal gold miners alive at Cricket Mine on Saturday, five days after they were trapped in flooded shafts.Rescue efforts were continuing to find about 60 others whos...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:21hrs | 2397 | by Reuters/ZimLive
Rescuers to begin retrieval of bodies of up to 70 Battlefields mine disaster victims
Rescuers are expected to start retrieving trapped illegal gold miners in Battlefields on Friday, but none are expected to have survived flooding in the shafts and the number of casualties could rise t...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:05hrs | 289 | by Reuters§
Chief Charumbira to be disciplined for supporting ZANU PF
The High Court of Zimbabwe has upheld an order compelling the Minister of local government July Moyo to institute disciplinary on the Councilor of Chiefs President of his remarks calling for all chief...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:30hrs | 3311 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF losing councillor gets nod to initiate twinning deals
Government has set in motion an urban councils twinning initiative which will see councils benefit from cities in developed countries by engaging a United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean in a bid to improve ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:52hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
False start to Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot's trial
THE trial of an Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot Tashinga Musonza (29) who is accused of brutally murdering his girlfriend Miss Lucy Duve (32) in a crime of passion late last year, failed to kick off on Mo...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:13hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend 'killer' pilot's trial kicks off
THE trial of an Airforce of Zimbabwe pilot accused of killing his lawyer girlfriend in a crime of passion late last year, kicks off in Gweru today. The case is part of the 17 murder cases line...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:38hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Smart cities first phase requires $1,5 billion
ZIMBABWE needs $1,5 billion to roll out the first phase of the smart cities programme which is aimed at improving transport networks, energy efficiency and urban management, a Cabinet Minister has sai...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:34hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Exiled Gukurahundi survivors return
Hundreds of survivors of Gukurahundi atrocities and political violence who have been living at a refugee camp in Botswana were yesterday expected to return to Zimbabwe after decades of residing in the...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1715 | by Staff rpeorter
Civil servants warn Mnangagwa
CIVIL servants yesterday warned government that a full-blown national strike was imminent if their employer fails to review its decision to offer them a paltry $41 pay rise.Civil servants who ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:20hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants reject $41 (bond notes) pay rise
GOVERNMENT business is now headed for a grinding halt after salary negotiations collapsed yesterday, as civil servants rejected their employer's "paltry" 10% pay rise offer and vowed to down tools in ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's defining moment
GOVERNMENT will today meet its restive employees in a crunch meeting for salary negotiations in a desperate bid to stop a full-blown strike that could cripple State operations.This comes as wo...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 3531 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa given a 14-day notice
CIVIL servants representative groups announced Tuesday they were all going on strike within the next 14 days if government failed to meet their wage demands.This follows a crisis meeting they ...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:16hrs | 3208 | by newzimbabwe.com
Swiss foreign minister in Zimbabwe
The Head of the Federal Department Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Councillor Ignazio Cassis has arrived in Zimbabwe on a private visit which will see him tour of the Newlyweds Community Clinic in High...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:12hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Harare, water purification dealer fight over $500k project
Harare City Council and a local water purification dealer are embroiled in a dispute over a $500 000 mobile water treatment plant meant to provide water to Mabvuku, Tafara and nearby suburbs.C...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:25hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
No deal!
Talk between government and its employees produced nothing tangible yesterday, heightening tensions between the two sides.After a marathon meeting called by government yesterday to calm restiv...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 20:59hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt engages workers in crucial meeting
Members of the Apex Council, which brings together unions in the civil service, will today meet representatives of government in a crucial meeting that will discuss civil servants' working conditions ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:11hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Govt ready with offer for civil servants
Government says it has an offer ready for civil servants and it will be tabled at the National Joint Negotiating Council soon. This was said by Acting Minister of Public Service July Moyo afte...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 14:44hrs | 4460 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe heads for shutdown
Government could be headed for a complete shutdown if it does not urgently address the concerns of its employees who are downing tools to press for better pay and improved working conditions, analysts...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:05hrs | 5876 | by Staff reporter
Meeting won't stop strike, says Teachers
GOVERNMENT will today face off with its restive workers in a last-minute ditch to stifle a proposed nationwide civil servants' strike, but teachers unions yesterday vowed to go ahead with the industri...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:37hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Schools ready for new term
All is set for schools opening tomorrow as a high-powered Government team today meets civil servants' unions to discuss their salaries and conditions of service. Teachers have ruled out a premature st...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to hold crunch meeting with govt
GOVERNMENT will tomorrow hold a crunch meeting with the statutory body representing its employees to discuss salaries and working conditions, amid positive signs teachers await the indaba to map the w...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa succumbs to pressure
ZIMBABWE'S restive civil servants have managed to nudge government into negotiations after they threatened to embark on a nationwide strike starting next week in protest over their poor salaries and t...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:08hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Ministerial delegation to meet civil servants
A HIGH-powered ministerial delegation will on Monday meet civil servants' representatives in Harare to discuss the prevailing challenges faced by Government workers. Acting Minister of Public ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:05hrs | 501 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe govt succumbs to pressure
ZIMBABWE'S restive civil servants have managed to nudge government into negotiations after they threatened to embark on a nationwide strike starting next week in protest over their poor salaries and t...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | 2975 | by Staff Reporter
Slain lawyer's father makes demands
THE father of the slain Gweru lawyer, Lucia Duve has made some demands to the family of the suspected killer boyfriend to mark the beginning of dialogue between the two families as per African traditi...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:45hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Government assures murdered lawyer's family of justice
GOVERNMENT has assured the family of a lawyer, Miss Lucia Duve, who was allegedly killed in a crime of passion by her boyfriend last month, that justice will prevail.Tashinga Musonza (29), an ...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:19hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Makokoba, Sakubva, Mbare set for a facelift
GOVERNMENT has mobilised $139,24 million to regenerate the country's oldest urban settlements, with Mbare, Makokoba and Sakubva suburbs set to benefit, a Cabinet minister has said.Addressing j...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:20hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
Local authorities begin setting up devolution structures
LOCAL authorities have started setting up structures to start the process of devolution, a Cabinet Minister has said. Government, through the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, rece...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 08:06hrs | 1550 | by Staff Reporter
China leads Zimbabwe cities revamp
THE future has arrived, and it looks nothing like what anyone expected. In the midst of a debilitating economic crisis, Zimbabwean urban centres are plagued by pollution, poverty and crumbling infrast...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
'Jail corrupt people without trial'
ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial chairperson and resident minister Ezra Chadzamira said people accused of corruption should go straight to jail without trial.Speaking during the party's victory cel...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | 662 | by Staf reporter
Buses banned from travelling at night
The government has escalated measures to prevent road accidents and has also banned public transport vehicles from travelling during the night.These were some of the resolutions arrived at dur...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 20:16hrs | 11660 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Smelly legacy of patronage
Smelly Dube, a businesswoman from Midlands province who was once close to former president Robert Mugabe's family, has been throwing a stink over a controversial housing project that is now giving the...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:22hrs | 1862 | by BRENNA MATENDERE
Beitbridge councillors breathe fire
BEITBRIDGE town councillors have allegedly unsettled sections of the executive in the local authority with numerous strict demands for clarity, accountability and transparency.The councillors,...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1120 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa splashes on new house
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is building a majestic house in the leafy Borrowdale suburb in Harare, which is likely to become his retirement home.The Daily News crew visited the president's ne...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 14:55hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
22 investors eye struggling Zupco
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo yesterday told Parliament that 22 investors from local and abroad had expressed interest in struggling State-owned transport operator, Zimbabwe United Passenger Com...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cries
Harare South legislator, Tongai Mnangagwa broke down in parliament this morning as he narrated how the government has left land seekers at the mercy of land barons.Narrating to the situation i...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 19:42hrs | 10033 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to set up battery manufacturing factories
Minister July Moyo says Zimbabwe is going to set up battery manufacturing factories in the Midlands Province as part of lithium beneficiation efforts, ...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 16:14hrs | 3098 | by Staff reporter
Debate on Mnangagwa's 'billion-dollar mansion' blocked
THE Speaker of Parliament last week blocked debate on the construction of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claimed multi-billion-dollar private Harare mansion.The Zanu-PF leader also has a prope...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 11:03hrs | 6026 | by newzimbabwe
Councils warned against engaging debt collectors
GOVERNMENT has warned local authorities against engaging debt collectors saying it is illegal to do. Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister July Moyo said investigations were und...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:01hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally declares West Nicholson accident a national disaster
Local Government minister July Moyo told journalists yesterday in Bulawayo that another person had died later on admission at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, bringing the death toll to 33. ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:47hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims to be buried after two weeks
THE identification of the Brooklyn bus accident victims will take two weeks with the Government calling on families of the victims to be patient as authorities go about the meticulous process of ident...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:39hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Govt okays council's non-performers' retrenchment
HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has disclosed that government recently approved plans by the local authority to retrench non-performing senior managers and staff, with "substantial" funds set to be put asi...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Rusape bus crash declared a national disaster
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:05hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe horror accident death toll jumps to 50
Fresh details from the Rusape bus disaster indicate that the accident was not a head on collision but a side swipe.It has also emerged that 50 people died contrary to earlier reports that had ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:06hrs | 4844 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt reviewing city by-laws to manage vendors
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo says government is reviewing harsh by-laws targeted at managing vendors in a bid to contain cholera outbreaks.Addressing councillors from across the Midland...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:23hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
Elected officials should shun sense of entitlement
PUBLIC officials in Zimbabwe appear to have increasingly grown a sense of entitlement where they feel, because of their positions, they must have free access to certain amenities and other luxury perk...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 190 | by Editorial - newsday
Councillors demand cars
RURAL and urban councillors in the Midlands province are demanding motor vehicles and an upward review of their allowances when they travel away from their stations on business to align their working ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
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