Blessings Mashaya and Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITERS POLICE will increase their patrols and roadblocks countrywide, in a bid to curb crime and carnage on the roads during the festive season, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Kazembe also warned that police would not hesitate to deal decisively with…
RENOWNED thought leader and academic Professor Mandivamba Rukuni will headline the State of Services Economy Survey (SOSES) launch in Harare tonight. The…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has commissioned the first phase of fully serviced residential stands in Mahatshula East suburb in a bid to reduce its housing backlog which currently sits at 125 000. This comes barely a month after the local authority commissioned 300 more stands in Pumula. Speaking at the commissioning…
POLICE yesterday named and shamed 39 suspected drug lords who have since been arrested and arraigned before the courts. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said law enforcement had increased its surveillance through the national committee on the elimination of drugs and substance abuse, resulting in the recent arrest of the 39 suspects. “The national (police)…
ZANU PF says there is no room for electoral malpractices such as vote-buying and violence during its primary elections in six constituencies today. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa set February 3 as the date for another set of by-elections in six constituencies where opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs were recently recalled. Speaking…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES say they are open to progressive ideas and proposals from all stakeholders on how to improve the country’s economy and lift the lives of hard-pressed Zimbabweans. This comes as many ordinary people, labour unions and business representatives have expressed varying degrees of disappointment with the 2024 national budget —…
INDUSTRY has implored authorities to liberalise the exchange rate to deal with the shortages of foreign currency in the country, which have seen the prices of basic commodities increase. This comes as MPs will today scrutinise the 2024 national budget in Parliament before it is passed.Giving submissions before the parliamentary portfolio committee on budget and…
ZIMBABWE’S first-ever State of Services Economy Survey (SOSES) will be launched in Harare tomorrow at a ceremony to be attended by the…
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has demanded that all ministers must, without fail, attend parliamentary business in order to fulfil their constitutional mandates. This comes amid concerns that the leader of government business in the National Assembly and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi is morphing into a super minister because his Cabinet colleagues are…
By Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE government says the effects of the El Nino phenomenon are threatening the national herd, as livestock is now vulnerable to diseases and hunger due to shortages of water and feed. This comes as the country has been on a growth trajectory, targeting to restock the national herd to six million…
