August 2020

Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO BULAWAYO Progressive Residents Association (Bpra) has accused the city council of misplaced priorities — a development it says has exacerbated the current water crisis. The Bpra’s concerns come after the local authority recently suspended water supplies for two weeks without notice. Residents, who have been enduring a 144-hour water shedding schedule,…

AUTHORITIES’ decision to continue restricting mobile money transaction limits has negatively affected small businesses and the marginalised. In June, the central bank introduced a cocktail of measures, including limiting daily mobile money transactions to $5 000 as well as suspending the mobile money platform’s agent and merchant lines in what it said were measures to…

Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Gender Protocol Barometer 2020 has revealed that 68 percent of women in Zimbabwe have experienced gender-based violence (GBV), while 46 percent of men have perpetrated violence against females, the Daily News reports. This comes as Musasa Project recently revealed that its centres have…

RENOWNED international church organisations have said it is time the authorities dealt with the country’s worsening rot, including ending alleged human rights breaches, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has attracted searing criticism over its handling of last month’s foiled protests and recent attacks on Catholic bishops. In a pastoral letter to…