By Ketty Nyoni AUTHORITIES have warned that they will suspend and revoke the operating licences of all bus owners caught using defective vehicles or whose drivers endanger the lives of passengers. Speaking in Harare yesterday at a meeting which spotlighted national road safety, the minister of Transport Felix Mhona, said all bus operators needed to…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has been accused of failing to account for funds availed to it by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) in 2021 and 2022 for road rehabilitation. As a result, Zinara has withheld the local authority’s funds for 2023.This comes after Harare City Council mayor Jacob Mafume told the media on…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa A TOP government official has said that parents and guardians of learners in primary and secondary school will continue to pay their levies despite the introduction of free education. In 2020, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law the Education Amendment Act, which compels the State to provide free basic education in line…
A SUSPECTED serial rapist who targeted young girls in Glen View and Budiriro, Harare, has been arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, facing eight rape and robbery charges. Crispen Bonda, 35, was arrested on Tuesday morning at Churu Farm, Glen View 1 and is believed to be connected to six counts of rape, four of…
AUTHORITIES will throw the book at everyone who breaks the law in the country regardless of their political affiliation, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid charges that the government was clamping down on the opposition ahead of Zimbabwe’s crunch national elections this year, Ziyambi said the law was…
Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES say poverty is contributing to the high cases of congenital heart defects (CHD) in the country. CHD is a general term for a range of birth defects that affect the normal way the heart works.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Simukai Machawira, said many of…
Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw AS ZIMBABWE’s population grows and new settlements emerge, the country faces a school deficit of close to 3 000. This was revealed by the Education ministry’s permanent secretary Thumisang Thabela while addressing a high-level policy dialogue on education financing yesterday. “The estimated demand for schools is 13 100 in order to adequately service…
Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw Relatives of patients admitted at Sally Mugabe Hospital in Harare have expressed anxiety about their inability to visit their loved ones because the hospital is turning away visitors not vaccinated. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, unvaccinated people at the facility’s visitors’ entrance trying to negotiate their way to see their relatives said…
THREE teenagers from Harare have been jailed for an effective 10 years for stealing electricity cables worth US$450 in the central business district. The trio, Richard Musunda, 18, Tatenda Nyakura, 18, and Honest Warambwa, 19, appeared before the Harare magistrate’s court recently. They were facing allegations of cutting, damaging, destroying and interfering with apparatus for…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political leaders to settle their differences in the interests of the country and its citizens. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa also said the country still had enough time to hold needed political dialogue ahead of this year’s crunch national…
