TWO female Harare City Council employees have been taken to court accused of stealing over US$6 000 and using the cash to buy furniture and clothes. Miriam John, 32, and Mercy January, 41, were arraigned before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda over the weekend facing a charge of theft. The pair is also facing a charge…
ONLY about 25 percent of urban households around the country which can receive potable water are actually getting supplies. These worrying statistics are contained in the just released 2023 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) report. This comes as the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) said yesterday that all districts in the country were now affected…
AUTHORITIES expect to get on top of the current Zim dollar and pricing crisis soon, on the back of the various measures that they are implementing to mitigate the situation. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Institute for Strategic Thinking (Zist) policy discussion in Victoria Falls last week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) chief economist, Nicholas Masiyandima,…
AS HAD been correctly predicted by the Daily News, it was confirmed yesterday that many Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs, including prominent sitting MPs, were cast aside during the party’s candidate selection exercise ahead of the country’s harmonised elections. However, CCC leader Nelson Chamisa later told the media in Harare that those who lost…
A SENIOR government official on Friday challenged local farmers to increase productivity to reduce production costs and poverty levels in communities, and…
Emmanuel Marambe SPORTS WRITER SKIPPER Craig Ervine and Sean Williams struck unbeaten centuries as Zimbabwe made a perfect start to the ongoing ICC World Cup Qualifier with an eight-wicket victory over Nepal at Harare Sports Club yesterday. Chasing 291 to win, Ervine (121 off 128 balls) and Williams (102 off 70 balls), who came on…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has called on the government and relevant stakeholders to increase children’s access to information and communication technologies in order to close the digital gap. In a statement yesterday, ZGC, to commemorate the Day of the African Child, which was running under the theme; The Rights of the Child in the…
WE welcome reports that the government has at long last promised to disburse US$2.4 million towards the repair of cancer machines at Mpilo Central Hospital and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals. We are, however, disappointed that it took the government this long to finally agree to avail the money needed to repair life-changing cancer machines at…
BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) has partnered with a private insurance company and will offer the first-ever package for informal traders in the second capital. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the BVTA director, Michael Ndiweni, said informal traders have over the years been recording losses through natural and man-made disasters and have failed to recover…
PARLIAMENT has urged the government to develop policy initiatives that ensure energy security for industries. A report by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy following its recent visit to Sweden urged the government to grant investment start-up capital to the private sector in order to revive the country’s energy sector. “The ministry of Mines working…
