By Shamaine Chirimujiri chirimujiris@dailynews.co.zw THERE are growing calls for the country to review its outdated abortion laws to meet the modern needs…
THE Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) says it is strengthening strategies against tick-borne infections to curb major animal health challenges ahead of the 2024/25 rain season. Speaking to the Daily News, director of veterinary services Pious Makaya said efforts were underway to ensure livestock remained healthy. “With the approaching summer season, the major animal health…
THE government says the country has recorded significant growth in locally manufactured products, a development that is expected to result in reduced imports. Speaking during a stakeholders meeting over the weekend, the minister of Industry, Mangaliso Ndlovu said the government was pushing to transform the manufacturing sector. “The country has increased production and manufacturing of…
THE government has been urged to prioritise tax education within communities to equip potential taxpayers with essential information supporting revenue collection efforts. This call comes from tax experts who participated in the inaugural Bakertilly Tax Summer School held recently in Nyanga, where concerns were raised about the lack of awareness regarding tax obligations among many…
THE ruling Zanu PF says it is regrettable that its detractors have poured “lots of money” over the years into needless campaigns to discredit and create false narratives of instability within the former liberation movement. So says the party’s director of Information, Farai Marapira, who also told independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs…
BY NYASHA KUNYISWA HEALTH minister Douglas Mombeshora says the government is currently in the process of testing Mpox clades with assistance from South Africa. A clade, also known as a monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that includes a single ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades represent unbroken lines of evolutionary descent. This…
BY MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE THE police have named and shamed 32 drug barons who were convicted for selling and also illegally possessing drugs across the country. In a statement yesterday, police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi said some of the suspects were made to pay fines by the courts while others were serving prison sentences. “The Zimbabwe…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) says it is setting up a new resident magistrates’ court in Wedza, Mashonaland East province in an effort to decentralise the justice system. This comes as the Commission recently commissioned a court in Triangle and Chiredzi, Masvingo prov – ince. This was revealed by the Commission’s secretary…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE ministry of Local Government has ordered some local authorities who did not attend the second phase of heritage based training under the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology to attend the second phase. This comes as in August some councillors attended the first phase of ideological training, drawing anger from the opposition….
ZIMBABWE’s hospitality industry is facing a safety crisis, with a staggering lost time injury frequency rate exceeding acceptable standards for three consecutive years covering 2017 to 2019, according to latest statistics. The revelations were made during a recent National Employment Council for the Catering Industry in Zimbabwe’s multi-launch of the Sectoral Occupational Safety and Health…
