LABOUR unions representing both private and public sector workers are pushing for an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as the country’s economic challenges are mounting, amid a prices spiral and shortages of some basic goods — both blamed on the worsening volatility of the Zimbabwe dollar. The secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has confirmed the arrest of over 400 council officials across the country with the highest number of arrests recorded in Harare and Chitungwiza municipalities in the past three years. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, on the sidelines of a local authorities training by the anti-corruption agency,…
LEGISLATORS have questioned why the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda stopped a parliamentary committee inquiry into illicit gold inflows in the country. This comes as Mudenda has blocked the probe by the public accounts committee (Pac) over the illicit flows of gold in the country and had summoned the Reserve of Bank of…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) is scaling up its efforts of eradicating rabies in the country through controlling the population of stray dogs and intensifying the programme of vaccinating dogs and cats. This comes after the recent ministry of Health surveillance report showed that by February, 2023 cumulative figures for suspected cases of rabies were…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) senior member Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole yesterday sought to stop the State from playing an alleged video, in which the two opposition politicians appear inciting public violence. The pair is currently facing trial before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti after they allegedly incited violence that broke out…
By Rutendo Ngara SWEDEN has donated US$6 million to Zimbabwe to cater for child protection from violence, abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, child marriages and teenage pregnancies, while Unicef will implement the programme that will run in 10 districts in the country. Speaking at the Unicef child protection signing ceremony in Harare yesterday, Swedish ambassador to…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO OVER 80 families, some of whom have been staying at the Bulawayo Municipal Compound (BMC) flats, face eviction after the council resolved that the occupied houses should be reserved exclusively for its security personnel. According to the latest council report, the local authority has instructed the housing and community services department…
TWO Chitungwiza Town Council senior officials, who allegedly unprocedurally created 30 commercial stands on reserved municipal land, yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court facing criminal abuse of duty charges as public officers. Chitungwiza municipality town planner, Rosemary Maridza, 41, and the council’s land survey technician, Henry Kandawasvika, 45, appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje…
By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has partnered with a local engineering company to build a 50 megawatt (MW) solar plant at its Ncema farm as part of sustainable measures to have alternative power sources. This is in the face of recurrent power cuts which have been destabilising water supplies to residents and…
THE Sadc Parliamentary Forum (PF) has heightened its calls for the Zimbabwe Government to ensure that local women participate in all processes of the upcoming general elections. Speaking yesterday at a regional high-level dialogue on women’s participation, the Sadc PF secretary-general, Boemo Sekgomo, said there was need for more effort to ensure women took part…
