By Brandon Josphat A LEADING civil society group says authorities need to come up with new measures to end the menstrual health distress that many women and young girls in the country continue to deal with. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, the founder of…
NEW details have emerged in the trial in which Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife, Marry Mubaiwa, is accused of attempting to murder the retired army general while they were in South Africa in 2019 where he was seeking medical treatment. During cross-examination before Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka yesterday, the State’s second witness, Tawanda Dzungudza,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has put on notice poorlyperforming local authorities and State entities. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the signing of this year’s performance contracts for Cabinet ministers and senior public sector officials, Mnangagwa added that poor performers were retarding the country’s vision to become an upper-middle class society by 2030. “The performance of local…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is engaging residents and other stakeholders on its plans to expand the central business district (CBD) into the two bordering low-density areas of Khumalo and Suburbs in a bid to commercialise them. This came out yesterday during a consultative meeting in the city organised by the local…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has called for the extension of days in the on-going voter registration blitz in areas where the process has been affected by technical difficulties, power cuts and Tropical Storm Freddy-induced heavy rains. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, the opposition party’s elections deputy director Ellen Shiriyedenga said…
STEWARD Bank, the country’s largest bank by depositors, has unveiled Steward Pay, an online payment gateway, which facilitates the processing of local and international payments online via VISA, Mastercard, EcoCash and Steward Bank accounts. Steward Bank chief executive officer Courage Mashavave said the launch of Steward Pay is part of the bank’s ongoing cycle of…
ZANU PF is racing against time to conduct and conclude its primaries ahead of the country’s forthcoming elections, amid fierce jockeying for seats and concerns that the internal polls could be delayed to accommodate late candidates. This comes as the party’s provincial and national elections directorates are set to consider the CVs that have already…
By Rutendo Ngara AT LEAST 63 percent of Zimbabweans have no access to a balanced diet, the latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) poverty, income, consumption and expenditure survey (PICES) reveals. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a balanced diet consists of at least 10 percent of proteins, five to 30 percent of fats,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged parents to instil discipline in their children. Speaking at the chiefs’ conference here yesterday, Mnangagwa said disciplining children would go a long way in curbing rising juvenile delinquency and substance abuse among the youth in the country.“We owe it to our forefathers who preserved our culture, and so it is…
Rutendo Ngarangarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Civil Protection Department (CPD) says the country remains on alert despite the weakening of Tropical Storm Freddy, which made landfall in the country for the second time, last weekend. This comes as one person was swept away on Monday in Chimanimani, Manicaland Province, while panning gold in a flooded river and the…
