NEW details have emerged that five people who were arrested last week on charges of extorting US$3 000 from a Chinese national in Harare are all police officers. This was revealed in court yesterday when it was disclosed Primrose Tarumbiswa and her alleged accomplices, Lawson Muchongwe, Perseverance Chisango, Fredrick Moyo and Weston Muzoriwa, are cops…
ZIMBABWE yesterday took delivery of 18 medical, air policing, search and rescue helicopters from Russia. President Emmerson Mnangagwa received the helicopters at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The helicopters would be used by health and security sectors, while some would be used for natural disasters operations. The helicopters were part of the government’s public private…
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe has explained the causes of the network challenges that its customers experienced over the past week, saying it was…
LABOUR unions representing both private and public sector workers are pushing for an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as the country’s economic challenges are mounting, amid a prices spiral and shortages of some basic goods — both blamed on the worsening volatility of the Zimbabwe dollar. The secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress…
LEGISLATORS have questioned why the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda stopped a parliamentary committee inquiry into illicit gold inflows in the country. This comes as Mudenda has blocked the probe by the public accounts committee (Pac) over the illicit flows of gold in the country and had summoned the Reserve of Bank of…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has confirmed the arrest of over 400 council officials across the country with the highest number of arrests recorded in Harare and Chitungwiza municipalities in the past three years. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, on the sidelines of a local authorities training by the anti-corruption agency,…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) is scaling up its efforts of eradicating rabies in the country through controlling the population of stray dogs and intensifying the programme of vaccinating dogs and cats. This comes after the recent ministry of Health surveillance report showed that by February, 2023 cumulative figures for suspected cases of rabies were…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) senior member Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole yesterday sought to stop the State from playing an alleged video, in which the two opposition politicians appear inciting public violence. The pair is currently facing trial before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti after they allegedly incited violence that broke out…
CASES of intra-Zanu PF confl ict are rising, amid ongoing fallouts over the party’s recent primaries. This has compelled the former liberation movement to organise peace meetings across the country, ahead of the country’s crunch national elections. The meetings — meant to pacify losing parliamentary and council candidates, as well as their supporters — are…
By Shamaine Chirimujiri THE Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), the publishers of the Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday, will tomorrow hold a Drugs and Substance Abuse Conference at the Cresta Lodge in Msasa, Harare, where various stakeholders will deliberate on sustainable solutions to tackle drug and substance abuse in the country. The…
