THE government says it is monitoring the Covid-19 situation in learning institutions before schools are allowed to resume sporting activities amid fears of a fifth wave of the pandemic. Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, called on citizens to be vaccinated saying it was the only sure way…
ZESA subsidiary, Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), says it has surpassed its power generation targets by 18,55 percent in the first quarter of 2022. The power utility which surpassed its third quarter power generation targets by 7,69 percent in 2021 said the latest feat was largely driven by output from Hwange and Kariba power stations. In…
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo’s notice of appeal against a provisional order setting aside his letter to remove Jacob Mafume and Arnold Batirai Dube as councillors for ward 17 in Harare and 24 in Bulawayo respectively has been dismissed with costs. On March 28, Moyo wrote to Harare City Council town clerk declaring a vacancy…
ZANU PF is counting on its newly-elected youth league executive to launch a vigorous campaign for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of the much-awaited 2023 general elections, party national political commissar Mike Bimha says. Bimha told the Daily News in an interview yesterday that the former liberation movement had changed its modus operandi ahead of elections to allow…
ZIMBABWEANS showed little appetite for yesterday’s planned national shutdown, with analysts calling on activists to adopt new strategies to push authorities to…
MEN are at the top of the list for mental health patient admissions at Ingutsheni Central Hospital, at 75 percent of the total cases at the country’s biggest referral hospital for such conditions. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Ingutsheni Hospital clinical director Wellington Ranga said men who get admitted at the hospital presented multiple mental health…
A Zimbabwean woman, Josphene Mudzingwa, was recently elected as the councillor for Benton, United Kingdom (UK) under the Labour party ticket. The Chirumanzu-born Mudzingwa garnered 1577 votes with the Conservative party candidate getting 534 votes. Speaking to Daily News yesterday, Mudzingwa, who has lived in the UK for 22 years, said getting elected as a councillor in a…
THE Zimbabwe Passengers Transport Organization (ZPTO) is targeting to buy 1 300 buses this year after the authorities said they are liberalising the country’s transport sector. Zupco has been enjoying monopoly in the transport sector since 2020 after the government gazetted Statutory Instrument 83 of 2020 putting a blanket ban on commuter omnibuses on the…
VICTORIA Falls City Council is struggling to keep its operations afloat ostensibly because the ongoing loss of value in local currency is immensely eating into its annual budget. This emerged during last Friday’s stakeholders’ consultation over fluctuating economic headwinds which have left the council operating with a deficit of more than $15 million from its…
ZIMBABWEANS are keeping their fingers crossed that the raft of measures announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the weekend will stabilise prices of basic goods, calm the parallel forex market and end the country’s transport blues. This comes after consumers, labour unions and business cautiously welcomed the new policy pronouncements yesterday, while former Finance minister…
