Brandon Josphat SENIOR STAFF WRITER PUBLIC sector workers are pressing for an urgent meeting with authorities to review their salaries in light of skyrocketing prices. They want the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting to be held before they are paid salaries for this month. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, secretary general of the…
By Emmanuel Marambe SPORTS WRITER THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League’s stadium crisis is set to ease amid indications that Mutare’s Sakubva stadium is likely to be available to stage top flight league games later this month. The coming in of Sakubva, as well as the anticipated availability of Harare’s Rufaro stadium, The Heart Stadium…
FARMERS say the prolonged dry spell being experienced in most parts of the country has negatively affected their crops as some are now wilting while others have been written off. This comes as the country is experiencing a two week long dry spell which started on January 20 and was expected to end on February…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw GARMENT manufacturing firm, Paramount Garment, says it lost property and goods worth approximately US$30 million after their premises were destroyed by fire in December last year. Addressing a press conference in Harare yesterday, Paramount Garment group finance director Jeremy Youmans said their insurer had since accepted liability. “We have lost property…
THE Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) is stepping up its campaign to nudge the country to do more to tackle the myriad challenges that are being faced by cancer patients. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, CAZ Information, Research and Evaluation officer, Lovemore Makurirofa, once again lamented the many gaps that continued to be there…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO TWO Mahatshula neighbourhood watch committee members who allegedly caused the death of a 20-year-old man whom they suspected to have been a thief in a video that went viral on social media have been dragged to court facing a murder charge. The duo, Mduduzi Ntonisani, 25, and William Nyoni, 28, were…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THREE Harare armed robbers allegedly stole US$56 000 from their employer, Runwave Petroleum, where they work as fuel attendants. The trio, Luckson Tsoka (22), Collen Maweni (26) and Norest Chimbumu, all from Ushewekunze suburb in Harare allegedly blasted their employer’s safe using a suspected dynamite and took away the cash. They…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERbrandonj@newsday.co.zw YET another Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Fortune Daniel Molokele has resigned from both Parliament and from the opposition outfit. His resignation followed that of the party’s former MP for Mt Pleasant, Harare, Allan Rusty Markham in solidarity with CCC ex-leader Nelson Chamisa who quit in a huff over…
A GWERU man Tafadzwa Chiradza (39) appeared in court yesterday facing charges of allegedly inciting violence soon after the announcement of last year’s general election results. Chiradza appeared before Harare magistrate Apolonia Marutya facing incitement to commit public violence offence and granted him US$200 bail. According to the court documents, Chiradza was arrested over the…
IN 2020, the High Court made a series of very important rulings on illegal infrastructure developments on wetlands in the country. One of the rulings was made by Justice Edith Mushore who ordered Harare City Council to demolish houses constructed on a wetland in Greendale. Friday was World International Day for Wetlands. With the world…
