THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over an increase in fire incidents this month attributed mainly to carelessness in discarding lit materials. BCC acting chief fire officer Linos Phiri told the Daily News yesterday that the increase in cases of fire resulted in one fatality, saying a daily average of three calls the…
SOME potentially harmful skin care drugs have flooded the local market, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has warned the public, amid fears that they cause miscarriages. The concerned MCAZ said yesterday that it had identified the medicines as isotretinoin and thalidomide, which are prescription drugs. According to the medicines authority, the drugs which…
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) have called on police to refrain from incarcerating people who use drugs, saying the solution to ending the drug menace is to rehabilitate the affected. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, director for Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drugs and Network (ZCLDN), Wilson Box, said they have partnered with Accountability Lab Zimbabwe…
MINISTER of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, has downplayed the recent attack on him by Bulawayo councillors over developmental projects he is carrying out in Cowdray Park, saying he enjoyed good relations with council management. Bulawayo councillors last month took a dig at Ncube, who is an aspiring parliamentary candidate for Cowdray Park constituency, for fixing roads…
ALL six Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring senatorial candidates for Bulawayo yesterday afternoon failed to file their nomination papers until the close of the nomination court sitting at the Tredgold Magistrates’ Court. A lawyer engaged by the candidates and CCC provincial official Tsepiso Mpofu were late yesterday evening making frantic efforts to engage the…
FOOD insecurity levels in local urban areas have decreased this year by 13 percent as a result of government strategies, a report released this week by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVac) reveals. According to the report, the measures and strategies being implemented have had positive outcomes for urban households’ food security situation. “The food…
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a Northend woman, Priscilla Muchape, who allegedly assaulted her six-year-old stepdaughter to death last month after she refused to wake up during the night and relieve herself. This comes after police arrested the father, David Zhou, on allegations of trying to cover up for Muchape’s actions and…
AT LEAST 85 percent of the 57 districts in the nation lack high quality public health facilities, endangering the lives of most people who seek their services. This is according to research by the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd). The research released on Monday and titled “Social service delivery”, appealed to the government…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has called on the government and relevant stakeholders to increase children’s access to information and communication technologies in order to close the digital gap. In a statement yesterday, ZGC, to commemorate the Day of the African Child, which was running under the theme; The Rights of the Child in the…
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested three security guards for allegedly sodomising a 23-year-old man from the Nguboyenja suburb, whom they accused of stealing a radio speaker from Zanu PF provincial offices, Davies Hall. Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube yesterday told the Daily News that last Tuesday, Philisani Khumalo, Shelton Luphahla and another suspect only identified…
