BY RUTENDO NGARA VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has urged leaders across all sectors to uphold transparency, ethics, and accountability while shunning drug and substance abuse. Chiwenga made the remarks at the African Women Leaders Network conference in Harare while responding to a question from the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace in Southern Africa, Mpule…
ZIMBABWE’s food security outlook is showing a notable improvement, driven by an above average harvest, stable local currency, and several resilience interventions across the country, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said. In its food security and markets monitoring report for July 2025, released on Friday, the WFP said there is widespread availability…
BRANDON JOSPHATChief Writer PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration is committed to preserving the legacy of the late former President Robert Mugabe by improving the livelihoods of ordinary citizens. In his commemoration message to the late founding president who died on September 6, 2019, Mnangagwa said the government would soon unveil the National Development Strategy…
PARLIAMENT has urged the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to relocate the Dema tollgate in Mashonaland East Province from its current site near residential areas. This follows recommendations contained in the Auditor General’s report on Zinara’s audited financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2023, which was tabled in the National Assembly last Tuesday…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE debate continues to rage around how successful authorities will be in their escalating push to stop the use of foreign currencies, including the dominant US dollar, in all local transactions by 2030. This comes after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said earlier this week that the under way move…
By Thabiso Mutirwara mutirwarat@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE is set to become one of the world’s top blueberry suppliers to the vast Chinese market, following a number of deals that were signed by authorities in Beijing earlier this week. In this regard, the chief executive of the Horticultural Development. Council of Zimbabwe (HDC), Linda Nielsen, said yesterday that…
THE National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has set a target of 450 units of blood in its latest Bulawayo donation drive as demand for lifesaving blood continues to rise. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday during the campaign held in partnership with Redan Petroleum, NBSZ southern region coordinator Sifundo Ngwenya said the goal is slightly…
CHINA President Xi Jinping and his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday announced upgrading the two countries’ relations to an all-weather community…
By Tapiwa Chirume chirumet@dailynews.co.zw WATER supplies in Kariba are under immediate threat after the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) disconnected electricity to all municipal water stations. The action was taken due to an unpaid debt of ZiG24 million. The Municipality of Kariba announced the power cut yesterday, warning that it would directly impact…
SMALL business owners are pleading with the Harare City Council (HCC) to slash crippling market and operating fees in the upcoming 2026 budget, saying the current charges are driving many informal traders out of business. Speaking after a pre-budget consultative meeting on Tuesday, HCC’s Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) committee chairperson, Denford Ngadziore, said there…
