Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynew.co.zw CASH-STRAPPED Harare City Council (HCC) has blamed its water provision challenges on shortages of aluminium sulphate, a major chemical used to treat raw water. The local authority said it is currently receiving a third of its daily aluminium sulphate requirements. “We are currently experiencing depressed water production and onward…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Women Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya has been taken to court in a land dispute relating to residential stands in Glen Forest, Harare. Mama Mafuyana Housing Cooperative (MMHC) cited Nyasha Chikwinya, Susan Sibanda, Jacob Madhanganyi, Honest Nyamaka and Munyaradzi Zimunya as respondents. They want Chikwinya and the others stopped from…
Brighton Goko STAFF WRITER gokob@dailynews.co.zw THE China and Zimbabwe Agricultural Company has started an ambitious US$2,5 million seed breeding project in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central, to help the government to revamp the agricultural sector. The investment was made through the China Industrial International Group, the parent company of the China and Zimbabwe Agricultural Company….
THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has increased water allocation for electricity generation at Kariba power station to 30 billion cubic meters, following a favourable outlook for the 2020/21 rain season. The allocation, which was increased from 27 billion cubic meters, will be shared equally between Zambia’s ZESCO Limited and the Zimbabwe Power Company for their…
EDITOR — When State-owned transporter Zimbabwe United Omnibus Company (Zupco) returned to the fray, ferrying intra- and intercity commuters, its modus operandi had changed for the worse. Back then during the days of the famous Dakota version of buses, the firm not only had a respectable fleet of buses but also exhibited a near-flawless efficiency….
AFTER close to a year without any international football, the Warriors return on the continental stage with crucial backto-back 2022 Afcon Group H qualifiers against Algeria this week. Zimbabwe is scheduled to travel to Algiers to take on the Desert Foxes at the July 5 Stadium on Thursday night in the first game. Four days…
DONALD Trump’s attempt to subvert the US election, has inflamed people without cause, sullied arguably the grandest office on earth and created long-term problems for America. After a close election, and four draining years, the relief of a slight majority of Americans and many people around the world is understandable as Joe Biden waits to…
THE government is having a hard time over citizens’ resistance to adhere to preventive measures against the lethal coronavirus, including putting on face masks, amid reports the country is set to be hit by a second wave of the pandemic. This comes as the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its epidemiological update revealed that this…
PUBLIC service workers including doctors, nurses and teachers have decried the government’s alleged unilateralism and intimidation during salary negotiations. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has, since its inauguration in 2018, been under pressure from restive civil servants demanding to be paid in US$. It also comes as teachers have been on strike for…
POLICE have raised concern over the number of rape cases that have been recorded over the past month. The period has seen a spike in the number of juveniles to grown-up women, who have been raped across the country. “Parents and guardians are warned against leaving the girlchild in the company of male relatives. A…
