PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent his condolences to the Nahyan family and United Arab Emirates (UAE) at large after the death of President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan last week. The UAE ministry of Presidential Affairs announced on Friday that there would be 40 days of official mourning with flags at half-mast and three…
A 16-YEAR-OLD girl, Rutendorwashe Mugure, was allegedly killed by her own father on Thursday night while restraining him from assaulting her mother. The incident took place in Chatsworth, Masvingo, around 10pm. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the father, Perai Mugure, 41, came home drunk and allegedly attacked…
HWANGE Local Board (HLB) is set to twin with local authorities from neighbouring countries in a bid to help improve service delivery through sharing of concepts and ideas, in line with the smart cities concept. The local authority says the conclusion of the twinning arrangements with local authorities in Namibia and South Africa were at…
AUTHORITIES warned yesterday that the heavy bouts of flu that have been ravaging Zimbabweans in recent weeks could be linked to coronavirus. Speaking to the Daily News, the Covid-19 national co-ordinator in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office, Agnes Mahomva, pictured, said many more people were still going to be affected by flu given the onset of winter, which…
POLICE have banned with immediate effect the use of hand-held spikes by officers. This comes amid a huge public outcry over the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday unveiled a new clinic in Stoneridge, Harare South, a move that will see residents benefitting from accessible and affordable healthcare. This comes as Harare South residents, particularly pregnant women and mothers, had long been suffering amid shortage of health facilities with most having to go to Glen Norah, Machipisa, and Waterfalls…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has expressed its displeasure at the snail’s pace at which corruption cases are being prosecuted in the country’s courts, with some going for as far as three years un-concluded. This is despite the fact that in 2018 the Judicial Service Commission established anti-corruption courts in all the country’s 10 provinces…
THE government says there is a need for the local authorities and the private sector to join hands with the government in addressing challenges in the health sector. Speaking at a handover ceremony of donated medical equipment at Thorngrove Infectious Hospital on Wednesday, Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube said challenges faced in the health sector…
THE debate over what authorities should do to stabilise prices of basic goods and the Zimbabwe dollar continues to rage, with experts generally agreeing that the government needs to do much more to achieve macro-economic vitality. Speaking on independent television channel 3Ktv’s popular Vantage programme last night, two of the country’s leading economists, Christopher Mugaga and…
Melisa Chatikobo THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has ordered all banks to disclose their suspended and other internal accounts as some are now being used to buy foreign currency on the black market. In a statement yesterday, the FIU director general Oliver Chiperesa said the financial records are being manipulated…
