PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned students in schools to desist from engaging in drug abuse and bullying. This comes amid several reports of drug and substances abuse among the youth, particularly in schools as well as bullying that has led to a number of suicides by learners. Speaking at the Independence children’s party in Murambinda,…
ZIMBABWE this week moved a gear-up to abolish the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday commuted several serving prisoners on death row to life imprisonment. The prisoners should have served over 10 years of their sentences. This comes as the Cabinet in February this year approved a Private Member’s Bill that, if passed…
ZIMBABWE’s quests for crucial economic reforms and re-engagement with the international community continue to receive vital support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and regional bloc Sadc. Posting on her X account after meeting a Zimbabwe delegation led by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube in Washington DC yesterday, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the Bretton…
BRANDS under the fast-growing Jester Media Services Group (JMS) continue to do very well in the market despite the country’s challenging economic…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government has assured farmers that there will be no disruption of power and water supplies during this winter cereal production after ring-fencing the two. This comes as the country bids to improve food security after most of the rain fed crops failed this season owing to the El Nino-induced drought…
By Rutendo Ngara THREE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) members and six other suspected notorious armed robbers were arrested over the weekend on charges of allegedly terrorising and robbing various companies and individuals in Harare, Ruwa and Shamva. The charges are backdated to May 2022. The nine are Farai Chauke, 38, Simbarashe Vhazhure, 33, Winston Matizanadzo,…
A SURVEY conducted by Germany’s Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in partnership with the Bulawayo Informal Sector Working Group has revealed that only 31 percent of Bulawayo’s street vendors in the central business district are licensed. Speaking at a Bulawayo informal sector survey presentation yesterday, FES consultant Ruth Chomola said more needed to be done by…
AUTHORITIES will deal ruthlessly with all those caught manipulating or undermining the country’s new currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), Zanu PF has warned. Speaking in Harare yesterday, the ruling party’s spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa said law enforcement agents would — in this regard — come down hard on those trading foreign currency on the parallel market.“To…
AUTHORITIES are concerned about the rising risk of many HIV-positive pregnant women transmitting the disease to their unborn children. The programme officer of the National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmissions (PMTCT) project in the Ministry of Health, Brian Komtenza, told the Daily News yesterday that it was worrying that a high number of HIV-positive expectant women…
By Masimba Makwembere NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda has urged MPs to craft laws that will curb carbon emissions and attract foreign investors. Carbon emissions are the primary driver of global climate change and it is widely recognised that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to urgently reduce emissions.Speaking at…
