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THE government says the country will conduct its fifth population and housing census between April 21 and 30 next year. Finance minister…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says China is playing a critical role in Zimbabwe’s development path, adding that the two countries have an unbreakable…

WITH Zanu PF continuing to reel from its long-standing internal wars, party bigwigs are moving with more urgency to lance these divisions as the 2023 national elections loom ever closer. Party secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that senior officials were now fed up with the infighting, prompting them to work more…

BOGUS Criminal Investigations Department (CID) operatives are on the prowl in Harare, targeting residential areas in daring criminal acts, the Zimbabwe Republic Police have said. This comes as robbery cases involving bogus operatives have been on an increase, with a gang recently pouncing on an unsuspecting man in Harare’s Zimre Park at midnight on the…

THREE cattle rustlers, who were sentenced to a collective 124 years in jail, have approached the High Court challenging their sentences. Prosper Musamanyi, Joram Chinyati and Batsirai Changoya, who were sentenced to 50, 25 and 49 years respectively, told the High Court that the sentences were too harsh. “The applicants also humbly submit that the…

BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube,  has slammed people in the second city for their complacency which is fuelling Covid-19 new infections and deaths in the region.  This comes as Bulawayo currently has at least 912 active Covid-19 cases with a number of hospitals in the city now running out of beds.  However, the huge amount…

MORE than 20 percent of people with chronic illnesses, such as HIV, hypertension and diabetes, in rural areas are defaulting on their medication due to high costs, the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Zimvac) says. According to the organisation’s 2021 Rural Livelihoods Assessment report, Matabeleland North province constituted the largest percentage of defaulters at nine percent….

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday implored hesitant Zimbabweans to get vaccinated now, warning that this was not the time to gamble with people’s lives. Addressing mourners who had gathered at the National Heroes Acre in Harare for the burial of retired major general Clever Chiramba, Mnangagwa said it would be folly for citizens to let down…

A NOTORIOUS armed robber was shot dead, while seven others were arrested in a series of shootouts with the police in Harare on Saturday. This comes amid an increase in spates of armed robberies across the country, a situation President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently said had become a national security threat. The Saturday suspects are linked…