HARARE – Parliament has said the widespread practice of detaining poor people for unpaid medical bills was not government policy. Deputy minister of Health and Child Care, Aldrin Musiiwa, said hospitals must change their practices. “It is not government policy that people who have been attended to without money should be detained. Surely, all the…
HARARE – Fuel dealers have no right to set limits or reject debit cards at service stations. This comes as dealers in Harare are demanding cash at fuel stations, rejecting plastic money and mobile payment platforms such as Ecocash. Mutoko East MP Ricky Mawere wanted to know what was government policy as regards to usage…
HARARE – A new “Sports, Physical Education and Mass Display” subject is to be introduced to the school syllabus next year and will apply from ECD to ‘‘A’’ Level. It is understood that students in all schools will begin studying the subject in the first-term from 2017. A formal announcement, inviting schools and teachers to…
HARARE – Parliament will hold its customary post-budget seminar in Harare. This is a break with tradition, where legislators have travelled to the Elephant Hills in Victoria Falls for post-budget deliberations. “I have to inform the House that a post-budget seminar will be held for members of the National Assembly on Monday the 16th of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe plans to inject more “bond notes” amid a worsening cash crisis. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said government plans to introduce more local bond notes, a token currency that is so far trading at par with the US dollar, to cure a persistent liquidity crunch, even though analysts have warned that it may…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government has urged workers to quit their jobs and venture into entrepreneurship. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said the latest move was aimed at maximising returns on the country’s human capital by reversing the prevailing mentality of trained personnel being content to remain as employees. “Central to this is broadening…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is moving to establish a National Quality Standards Regulatory Authority (NSRA) with the intention to halt the importation of cheap imports. Industry minister Mike Bimha on Wednesday said the country lacked an authority specifically tasked with inspecting products that make their way into the country, a situation facilitating dumping of poor quality…
HARARE – Miss Deaf Zimbabwe, which last held a national pageant three years ago, will finally select a new national queen in Harare on February 25 next year. Pageant organiser and founder Madeline Yohane told the Daily News that her organisation — Miss Deaf Zimbabwe Trust — had decided to revive the beauty contest despite…
HARARE – Radio presenter, Mona Lisa Dube, 23, has been awarded the Youth Coach of the Year award by the International Coaching and Mentoring Foundation (ICMF]. The ICMF is a trust which supports, develops and preserves the standards of professional coaches in Zimbabwe with the aim of empowering young people to navigate life with self-awareness,…
HARARE – Renowned fashion designer and Zuvva label proprietor Joyce Chimanye says many promising and established designers will only fullfil their potential after undergoing training. Chimanye made the remarks during a workshop held in Harare early this week. “To most designers, you need training. You see people calling themselves a designer yet they never got…
