ACCORDING to the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe, over 50 pedestrians are killed monthly in road crashes. To avoid that unnecessary loss of lives, TSCZ acting managing director Clifford Gobo has suggested to Parliament that there was a need to reduce speed limits in residential areas, near schools and shopping centres. Gobo said it was…
Tanyaradzwa MarabadaENTERTAINMENT WRITERmarabadat@dailynews.co.zw LEGENDARY playwright and Amakhosi Theatre Productions founder, Cont Mhlanga was admitted at a Bulawayo health facility on Friday, the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) has announced. Mhlanga, popular for productions such as Amakorokoza, Workshop Negative and Sakhumuzi, has been away from the limelight for some timenow mainly due to poor health….
FORMER Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has rebuffed calls for him and other exiled erstwhile Zanu PF top cats to return home and join a mooted splinter ruling party outfit, Zanu PF Original — warning that the governing party was “a beast not to be played with”. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mzembi said it…
Rutendo Ngara ZIMBABWE’S national population has increased to 15 178 979, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has revealed. The new population figure is a 16.2 percent increase on the 13 061 239 which was in the previous census held in 2012. Announcing 2022 population and housing census results yesterday, Zimstat director general Toguma Mahonde…
Blessings Mashaya and Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITERS BOTH ordinary consumers and business are hoping that tomorrow’s mid-term budget statement by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube will address soaring prices of basic goods in the country and include more tax cuts. Those who spoke to the Daily News yesterday added that they were also expecting Ncube to stem…
Rumbidzai NgwenyaSTAFF WRITERngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw HUMAN rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called on the authorities to bring to book a cleric accused of inciting members of the public to murder Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and his followers. This follows a video circulated on social media last week in which Habakkuk Apostolic Faith mission…
Hazel Marimbizain Bulawayo POLICE in Bulawayo have warned female drivers to be on the alert as robbers are reportedly targeting them and snatching valuables from their motor vehicles. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said they were investigating a series of theft cases from motor vehicles where female drivers driving…
Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERKunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw ZESA executive chairperson Sydney Gata, pictured, said the power utility is facing a headache over US$ 62million and $17 billion debts which are crippling its operations. Gata made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by Zesa chief financial controller Eliab Chikwe nhere at the handover ceremony to be used…
Tanyaradzwa Marabada THIS year’s literature festival, set for November, is aimed at celebrating the “Ties that bind us.” Aptly themed “We are joy — celebrating the ties that bind us,” the ninth edition of the festival will be held at several joint’s in the capital between November 23 and 26. “In life, there is always…
HIGH interest rates and inflation are eroding producer prices, thereby threatening the output of the coming 2022/23 summer cropping season, farmer unions have said. This comes as strategic crops such as maize are being paid in local currency which has in the past few months been ravaged by inflation leading to increases in the prices…
