January 2025

FORMER Speaker of the National Assembly Lovemore Moyo says authorities should improve the deteriorating lives of ordinary citizens this year by implementing policies focusing on economic growth. Speaking to the country’s most influential newspaper, the Daily News, yesterday, Moyo said most ordinary people were wallowing in abject poverty. “The year 2024 was indeed a challenging…

Blessings Mashaya POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES will crack down on people who stand accused of abusing social media to denigrate President Emmerson Mnangagwa and to instigate social unrest in the country, police warned yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — ZRP national spokesperson, Paul Nyathi, said law enforcement agents…

Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw A CHITUNGWIZA businessman lost US$13 500 after locals stormed his home and stole the cash saying it was part of the loot from the US$4 million Bulawayo bank heist last year. This followed social media posts that the bank money had been found at the businessman’s house. It also comes…

Shamaine Chirimujiri STAFF WRITER AUTHORITIES, have with immediate effect, banned all activities at Lake Chivero, Harare, until pollution levels are brought under control, affecting around 20 000 families who rely on the lake for their livelihoods. This comes after the lake was last month contaminated with cyanobacteria killing four rhinos, three zebras, fish and other…

THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management (ZimParks) says it is a miracle that an eight-year-old boy survived for almost a week in a game park. ZimParks spokesperson, Tinashe Farawo, told the Daily News yesterday that Tinotenda Pudu’s survival in the wildlife-infested Matusadona Game Park was an “incredible mystery”. This comes after Tinotenda disappeared on Christmas…