FOOTBALL clubs and stakeholders are concerned with the local game’s ability to meet the high costs of the bio-secure bubble in light of the government’s recent decision to allow Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) to tour Pakistan. ZC became the biggest local sporting code to be given the green light to return to international competition after they…
THE government has, through Statutory Instrument (SI) 223 of 2020, gazetted regulations for the resumption of inter-city travel, which will see operators applying for the routes they want to service to the Commissioner of Road Motor Transportation. This comes as the government is relaxing Covid-19 lockdown measures to allow for the resumption of various economic…
THE United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned that failure to manage the environment and natural resources threatens the country’s vision towards achieving sustainable development and an upper middle-income economy by 2030. Speaking during an environmental capacity building seminar recently, UNDP poverty reduction, environment and climate change team leader Anne Madzara said Zimbabwe was facing…
A 40-YEAR-OLD man from Murewa has been arrested in connection with the suspected ritual murder of a seven-year-old boy whose body was found without the head. Tafadzwa Shamba is alleged to have connived with two other men, who are on the run, who reportedly promised him US$1 500 for beheading the boy. National police spokesperson…
The High Court yesterday stopped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) faction led by Lucia Matibenga from recalling Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and councillors for Mutare and Bulawayo. This was after Mafume and the councillors, Simon Chabuka and Arnold Dube for Mutare and Bulawayo respectively, approached the court seeking to interdict Local Government minister July Moyo,…
ZANU PF has once again had to rope in the party’s security department to deal with the unabating ructions in the former liberation movement, which are threatening elections to choose members of its re-introduced district co-ordinating committees (DCCs), the Daily News reports. At the centre of the latest fire-storm are allegations that remnants of the…
CORRUPTION busters in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office have swooped on Criminal Investigation Department (CID) national director Chrispen Charumbira over a slew of allegations relating to graft. The Daily News understands that Charumbira was being held overnight at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare. This comes as police commissioner general Godwin Matanga has transferred a number of…
ZIMBABWE cricket team interim captain Chamu Chibhabha says the mood in the team’s training camp was immediately lifted after the government granted them permission to go ahead with the tour of Pakistan on Wednesday. Since March, all sporting events were put on ice after the global spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19). As a result,…
HARARE West Member of Parliament Joanna Mamombe has been sent to Harare Remand Prison where she will be examined by two doctors to ascertain her mental capacity to stand trial. Mamombe is jointly charged with Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa on allegations of faking abduction and the trial was postponed last week after she failed…
VICE PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, yesterday said his ministry is working on amending the Public Health Services Act in a bid to improve adolescents’ access to reproductive health, the Daily News reports. This comes as various advocacy groups have called on the government to amend the Act to enable children below the…
