HEALTH minister Douglas Mombeshora has bemoaned the current state of the country’s health situation saying a lot needed to be done to spruce it up and cater for the ever-growing population. He was speaking at the commissioning the first magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) scan at Bulawayo’s largest referral medical centre, Mpilo Central Hospital on Friday, where…
THE proposal to construct a new US$100 million Bulawayo water supply, Glass Block dam, viewed as a medium-term measure to address the city’s perennial water crisis, has divided the city fathers. The dam is earmarked for construction in Insiza district, Matabeleland South Province, by a private company. While the government and other stakeholders have approved…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has finally won the long-running battle of removing marauding politically-linked space barons who had turned the popular 5th Avenue into an illegal vending site by wantonly parcelling out vending bays. This comes at a time that the local authority a fortnight ago issued a combined statement with the government on…
AS HEARINGS on Gukurahundi are about to kick off, authorities have implored the media to report responsibly on the issue. This comes as traditional leaders are about to start holding public hearings on the killings and related trauma that were experienced mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands in the 1980s, as part of the government’s…
AS THE country prepares to hold public hearings on Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s, authorities say those who wish to make submissions to the chiefs leading the process are encouraged to do so in person. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the deputy president of the Council of Chiefs, Fortune Charumbira, said they would limit…
POLICE in Bulawayo have confirmed the arrest of 10 pupils who were caught boozing and taking drugs at a Vuzu party in Malindela low-density suburb. “We confirm the arrest of six boys from Milton High School, one male school leaver aged 17 and three girls from Evelyn High School who were at a Vuzu party…
SCHOOL heads in Bulawayo have appealed to the government to fast track teachers replacements in public schools as some schools were failing to fill-in the gap of teachers who would have relocated, or left for various reasons. The school heads made the plea to Education minister Torerayi Moyo who was touring learning centres in the…
GOVERNMENT has joined the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) efforts to bring sanity into the city’s streets by removing vendors, who are accused of congesting the central business district (CBD). The BCC has for a few years been battling politically-backed space barons who wantonly parcel vending bays to locals in the CBD against the local authority’s…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says there is no going back in the government’s drive to seek the long overdue closure on the emotive Gukurahundi issue through a community outreach programme being led by local chiefs. The Gukurahundi disturbances took place between 1983 and 1987 in the Matabeleland and Midlands regions, claiming thousands of lives. Mnangagwa told…
THE main political parties in the country’s southern region yesterday snubbed the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera), with only five fringe parties and one civil society organisation turning up for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU is meant to be part of renewed efforts by Nera to push for electoral reforms…
