THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is scaling up its support for tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy in Zimbabwe by assisting the government and other relevant stakeholders to introduce a mobile application meant to ease screening of the disease. This comes after statistics by WHO indicated that Zimbabwe experienced a decrease in TB Preventive Therapy…
By Rutendo Ngara FORMER commercial white farmers, whose land was expropriated by the government in the early 2000s, say they are concerned with the continued delay by the government in compensating them. This comes as the government has made a new proposal to Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) representatives on how it would compensate the former…
THE harvesting season for both irrigated and some rainfed tobacco has begun, the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) says. This comes as the Tobacco Research Board (TRB) has said the 2022/23 production season has some early tobacco flowering that compromises the quality of the tobacco output. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, TIMB spokesperson Chelesani…
Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw A BUOYANT Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says the results of last year’s parliamentary and municipal by-elections show that the party can win this year’s crunch harmonised polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, CCC national spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere also said the party was approaching the elections having factored in the probability that…
Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) says it continues to battle a serious shortage of blood, which has seen its stocks plunging to a mere day’s supply in Harare and Bulawayo. As a result, NBSZ says it has partnered with a major fuel retail company, Redan Coupon, which will give blood donors free…
THE trial of jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala failed to start again after the magistrates’ court yesterday postponed the matter to next Monday to allow both the prosecution and defence to file written submissions. This comes after Sikhala filed an application seeking to have his trial for allegedly inciting violence in…
Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@daiynews.co.zw CASES of typhoid and diarrhoea in the capital continue to rise, with the Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday confirming it had recorded a total of 73 infections from December last year to January 3 in high density suburbs. Speaking to Daily News yesterday, the HCC epidemiologist and disease control officer, Michael Vhere, said…
GOVERNMENT is set to dish out residential stands to Members of Parliament after recently directing local authorities around the country to speed up the allocation of the land to the legislators. This comes barely three months after Zanu PF, MDC and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators received US$40 000 housing loans each from the…
INVICTUS Energy, the company that was awarded a contract to explore gas and oil in Muzarabani basin, Cahora Bassa region, has closed drilling operations at its first exploration well, Mukuyu-1, due to technical challenges. In a statement yesterday, Invictus Energy managing director Scott Macmillan said some testing tools used in the exploration and drilling processes…
SOME Zanu PF affiliates are stepping up their bid to sink the draft delimitation report which was handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). The affiliates — Men BelievED, Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) and Councillors for Economic Development — told the Daily News yesterday that the delimitation…
