CHIEF WRITER AUTHORITIES are escalating their push to address the longstanding water shortages that affect so many people in Harare. In this regard, the government is mulling constructing a new water treatment facility in the metro, as well as a 48km pipeline to service some of the capital’s eastern suburbs and parts of the planned…
CHIEF WRITER ZIMBABWE and Botswana are ramping up joint border patrols to curb rising cases of stock theft along their shared frontier, in a coordinated effort to strengthen security and protect livestock-dependent communities. The move comes amid growing concern that livestock rustlers were exploiting the porous border between the two countries, stealing cattle and undermining…
CHIEF WRITER THE government is planning to recruit up to 36 000 more police officers as part of a broader expansion of the security sector to strengthen law enforcement capacity amid rising crime rates. Responding to a question from Shamva South MP Joseph Mapiki in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the minister of Home Affairs,…
PARLIAMENT has urged the government to increase investment in rural and maternal healthcare to improve access to quality services, particularly for women and children in underserved areas. Raising a point of national interest in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Mashonaland West proportional representation MP Mutsa Murombedzi said healthcare must be treated as a constitutional right…
CHIEF WRITER AUTHORITIES have with immediate effect halted the recently launched pilot programme to digitise the country’s land administration system amid complaints that property owners were restricted to a closed list of conveyancers. The issue was raised by Chitungwiza South legislator Maxwell Mavhunga in the National Assembly on Wednesday after asking the minister of Justice,…
CHIEF WRITER THE government needs to do a lot more to bring down the country’s soaring cost of living to cushion hard-pressed consumers, key stakeholders said yesterday. In addition, they called upon authorities to urgently investigate the country’s fuel value chain, to ensure that consumers and businesses do not pay unreasonably high prices for their…
THE government has launched a pilot programme to digitise the country’s land administration system, as part of key steps to streamline and modernise the registration of properties. The initiative comes amid expectations that the ongoing national title deeds programme will help to address some of the country’s long-standing land challenges. “The objective of the programme…
THE government is set to introduce compulsory minimum standards for critical products and encourage the adoption of AI-driven manufacturing systems to boost industrial productivity and strengthen the country’s competitiveness in local and international markets. Speaking in Victoria Falls over the weekend during Zimbabwe’s CEO Roundtable, the Minister of Industry, Mangaliso Ndhlovu, said his ministry was…
THE country will face serious water challenges in the coming years due to the adverse effects of climate change. So warned the Minister of Water, Anxious Masuka, yesterday while marking World Water Day. In this regard, he said the government was investing in new dams to mitigate the effects of climate change. “With climate change,…
ZIMBABWE is making strides in clean energy adoption, with a growing shift toward renewable and environmentally friendly power sources, particularly in urban areas, the minister of Energy, July Moyo, has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday ahead of today’s commencement of the Sadc Sustainable Energy Week 2026, Moyo said the use of green energy…
