ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) selectors have named a 25-man provisional squad for the home two-match Test series against Sri Lanka comprising experience and youth. Harare Sports Club will host both encounters, with the opening match scheduled for January 19-23 while the second is scheduled to start on January 27. Leading the pack on the list of…
© DEFENCE ministry procurement director Peter Muchakazi and an accountant, Mervyn Kunofiwa Madondo, were yesterday barred from entering Defence House after they appeared in court facing charges of criminal abuse. Muchakazi was released on $5 000 bail while Kunofiwa paid $3 000, and both were ordered to continue residing at their current addresses, report thrice…
© THE number of couples that filed for divorce at the Bulawayo High Court between January and December last year marginally declined to 674 compared to 820 the previous year. During the same period, 1 267 couples got married in terms of the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11 at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Courts. Lawyers and religious…
© THE African Development Bank (AfDB) yesterday gave Zimbabwe a US$10,4 million grant to improve the country’s domestic resource mobilisation and public sector management systems. The government will provide an additional US$1,1 million to the grant. The grant, which would be released under the Tax and Accountability Enhancement Project (TAEP), will benefit the Zimbabwe Revenue…
© MASVINGO United Ratepayers and Residents Alliance (Murra) has hit out at unscrupulous people who are selling water at boreholes sunk by non-governmental organisations to ease severe shortages in Zimbabwe’s oldest town. Murra spokesperson Godfrey Mutimba told the Daily News there was an upsurge of water barons who are capitalising on the water shortages in…
© SUSPENDED Chitungwiza town clerk George Makunde has been implicated in a recent audit report for illegally allocating fuel to a female council official since 2013. According to the audit report, Makunde allocated 80 litres of fuel to a human resources manager who was supposed to get only 40 litres weekly. In his letter to…
© MARONDERA Town Council plans to allocate 14 000 medium, high and low density housing stands this year in a bid to clear a 17 000 housing backlog. Marondera mayor Chengetai Murowa told the Daily News that the town had set an ambitious target of cutting the housing backlog by 82 percent. He said the…
© WOMEN rights activists have implored the government to reinstate the free-user fee policy under which public hospitals did not charge expectant mothers. In 2018, the Health ministry under the new dispensation re-introduced the free-user fee policy for expecting mothers, children under the age of five and citizens above 65 years as part of the…
© THE government yesterday received the first consignment of medicines and medical consumables under a US$20 million deal sealed between NatPharm and a Swiss-based firm. The arrival of the much-needed drugs and consumables comes as Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in over a decade which saw restive public sector workers — including junior and…
© THOUSANDS of children in rural areas are failing to attain secondary education due to poverty and economic challenges among other things, the 2019 Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS) results have shown. This comes as schools have hiked fees, with the government saying schools should justify their reasons for increasing fees and seek permission before…
