AUTHORITIES say they are going to employ smart traffic management technology, in a bid to help curb rampant reckless driving in the country. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said the government would do everything in its power to mitigate the ongoing carnage on the country’s roads. This comes after…
AUTHORITIES say the African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled a US$25,5 million fund that will be managed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for emergency food production programmes by smallholder farmers. The AfDB seeks to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries and contribute to poverty reduction while FAO…
Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITER THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has set up 513 polling stations in nine parliamentary constituencies and 58 councils. The by-elections come after the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general, Sengezo Tshabangu, has recalled dozens of MPs, senators and councillors over the imposition of candidates. However, in a statement yesterday,…
HIGH Court Judge, Justice Webster Chinamhora, who was facing allegations of corruption, has resigned rather than face a tribunal, the Judicial Service…
THE Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Midlands, Owen Ncube has called upon the Drug and Substance Abuse Committee in Kwekwe district to provide him with regular updates on the apprehension of drug barons. The Drug and Sub – stance Abuse Committee at Kwekwe District Hospital, chaired by Fortune Mupungu, District Development…
AUTHORITIES have begun consultations with key stakeholders as the country seeks a viable roadmap towards establishing the Zim dollar as the sole local currency. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, the deputy minister of Finance, David Mnangagwa, said these consultations would not affect the current local use of the United States dollar — which has been…
THE government says it has with immediate effect banned street vending in Harare’s central business district (CBD) as authorities intensify the fight against the spread of cholera across the country. This comes as of Monday, Zimbabwe had recorded 7 267 suspected cholera cases, 1 218 confirmed cases, 6 977 recoveries, 49 confirmed deaths and 143…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s sole gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), has introduced mobile gold buying units across the nation to ease the burden on small-scale miners who operate in remote areas. This was confirmed in the National Assembly on Wednesday where Mines deputy minister Polite Kambamura was responding to a question…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced State-assisted burials for the 22 people who were killed in a road accident on Tuesday evening along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road. In a statement yesterday, Mnangagwa said authorities would avail funds to assist the bereaved families. “The government will weigh in by according the victims of this horrendous crash State-assisted burial….
FORMER Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe, and his accomplices, Same Kapisoriso, Ngonidzishe Mutsvene and Joseph Taderera, were yesterday sentenced to three years in prison each. They were also ordered to pay a fine of US$12 780 per individual. The four were convicted on November 8 after they were found guilty of smuggling a tanker containing…
