HEALTH experts say although the country is not yet experiencing a third coronavirus wave, Zimbabweans should adhere to the current strict public management regulations of the pandemic to stop the cases of the virulent respiratory disease from spiking further. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the president of the Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA), Shingai…
POLICE are facing strong criticism in the wake of brutal attacks on vendors and desperate commuters in downtown Harare this week by rogue members of the force, acting under the guise of enforcing the country’s fortified coronavirus measures.The Daily News was told by hurting members of the public yesterday how delinquent and baton-wielding police officers…
FOREIGN currency shortages and inflation have negatively affected network expansion across the country, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director general Gift Machengete has said. In the first quarter telecommunications sector performance report released on Wednesday, Machengete said foreign currency shortages had resulted in mobile network operators’ failure to import spares. “Foreign currency shortages will…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere for misconduct. This comes after he received a report from a tribunal he set up last year to investigate Ndewere on whether she was still fit to remain in office after a slew of misconduct allegations levelled against her. “The tribunal established in terms…
By Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO SOUTHAMPTON Building that houses police officers in the Bulawayo city centre was yesterday gutted by a fire, which is suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault. The 13-storey building, which also houses Bulawayo West Police headquarters situated on Joshua Mqabuko Street and 9th Avenue, caught fire on its…
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has described crystal meth (mutoriro) as a great danger for Zimbabwe’s youth and called on the government to come up with ways to eradicate the illicit drug. Mutevedzi made the remarks while sentencing Mathew Hopkins to an effective two-and-half-years in jail for possession of the drug yesterday. The 29-year-old Hopkins pleaded…
MINING giant Freda Rebecca Gold Mine produced 300kgs of the yellow metal last month, cementing the country’s aim of creating a US$12 billion economy by 2023 as part of a broader macroeconomic roadmap towards an upper middle-income economy by 2030. The firm’s general manager Eliakem Hove told journalists in Harare yesterday that the latest achievement…
DIVERSIFIED retail and wholesale giant N Richards Group yesterday opened another branch in Hatcliffe, Harare, bringing the group’s total operating stores throughout Zimbabwe to 38. The new Hatcliffe branch is now the 18th N Richards Group branch in the capital city. The retail and wholesale giant, which has been in business for over eight decades,…
THE Zimbabwe Cross Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) intends to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on their members by importing goods on their behalf from neighbouring countries. Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Zimbabwe’s land borders have been closed as a measure to curb the spread of the virus. This has…
TOBACCO company Grandicore has intensified efforts to recover tobacco and money channelled to farmers and inputs under the Tobacco Contract Farming Credit Scheme. Grandicore finance director Donald Ganyaupfu said their company and the industry was worried about the selling of contracted crop to a buyer other than the one who financed it. This comes as…
