By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF says it will deploy 1 000 foot soldiers to conduct door-to-door campaigns as it seeks to win two constituencies in Harare Metropolitan Province. The April 27 by-elections were occasioned by the resignation of Citizens Coalition for Change Mt Pleasant MP Fadzayi Mahere and his Harare East counterpart Rusty Markham…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has cholera under control notwithstanding its water challenges. This comes as the local authority is currently monitoring four suspected cases of cholera patients to ensure that the water borne disease is kept at bay. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, BCC Health director Edwin Sibanda said the situation…
LOCAL financial institutions should assist women entrepreneurs to grow their businesses as the development of the country is hinged on their efforts,…
FORMER National Social Security Authority (Nssa) investment director, Brian Murewa, was yesterday granted US$500 bail following his arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on Wednesday on fraud charges. He was remanded to May 14. In granting Murewa bail, Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei ordered the accused not to interfere with State witnesses. “The accused is…
THE Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, has rebuked legislators who take naps and dress inappropriately while in Parliament. This comes as lawmakers have recently been under the spotlight for coming late and dozing off in the august House while parliamentary business is under way. Mudenda said on Wednesday that sleeping and dressing inappropriately…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)’s water challenges are set to worsen with its supply dams level continuing to drop amid high temperatures fuelled by the ravaging El Nino-induced drought. This comes after it emerged yesterday that the water levels had dropped to almost 40 percent with months to go before the next rainy season. “The combined…
Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES say they will thoroughly inspect and monitor food aid donated by international relief organisations to curb the coming in of genetically modified maize for human consumption. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared the current drought a national disaster, while also appealing for at least US$2 billion in…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has revealed that the local Fire and Ambulance Department has not acquired a single ambulance in the past 15 years. This is according to the BCC chamber secretary, Sikhangele Zhou, who said the local authority was relying on donated ambulances and fire brigade trucks for the critical department. Zhou was…
A MT HAMPDEN man, 24, has appeared before the courts after he was arrested for raping a girl aged 13 before giving her US$1 to silence her. The man was remanded in custody to April 12 and advised to apply for bail at the High Court by Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei. It is the State…
Ashley Moyo moyoa@dailynews.o.zw VETERAN musician Willom Tight has teamed up with award-winning producer Oskid to remix the song Ndinoda Wangu — the 2000 hit that made him the darling of romantics. Oskid, born Prince Tapfuma, told the Daily News yesterday that they had breathed a new lease of life into the old hit by making…
