OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora yesterday said it was never his wish to part ways with his former deputy, Thokozani Khupe saying the move was regrettable. Mwonzora was in Bulawayo for the first time since parting ways with the former deputy where he launched his party’s March 26 by-elections campaign at Phelandaba Hall saying there…
POLICE had to be called in on Monday after a resident unearthed a grenade in Montrose suburb while cultivating his field. Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident in an interview with the Daily News yesterday. “The grenade was found in a small urban field in a bush, at the corner of Dundee and Ullswater…
NEWLY formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was over the weekend plunged into further chaos after a group of its placard-wielding members in Bulawayo’s ward 26 demonstrated against the imposition of candidates. This comes after the party fielded double candidates in Masvingo and Bulawayo provinces for the March 26 council by-elections. However, one of the…
BULAWAYO City fathers are fuming after companies that were contracted by the government to rehabilitate roads in the country’s second largest city…
THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has engaged the Standards Association of Zimbabwe seeking the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) certification as part of its mission to improve the quality of its services. According to ZTA acting chief executive officer Givemore Chidzidzi, the new strategy was critical in the implementation of the government’s five-year economic blue-print,…
EX-WENELA workers, who were exposed to harmful substances and ended up contracting Silicosis or Tuberculosis at South African gold mines, yesterday bemoaned the Covid-19 pandemic for delaying their terminal benefits. This comes after the High Court in Johannesburg approved the settlement in the Silicosis and Tuberculosis class action reached on July 26, 2019 and came…
THE chaos that has been long ravaging the opposition reached new depths yesterday after suspended MDC deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, announced a breakaway party. The announcement comes hard on the heels of her surprising suspension by opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora over “taking party issues to court”. Yesterday’s announcement by Khupe came amid continuing warnings by…
TRANSPORT blues have once again resurfaced in the second largest city after police intensified their clampdown on unregistered vehicles. According to police, over 2 000 drivers have already been nabbed in an ongoing operation that is set to weed out criminal elements while also forcing all drivers to comply with vehicle registration requirements. A survey…
MISS Pan African Queen International 2019 Pauline Marere, pictured, will host and organise the Zimbabwe edition of Miss Culture International in May. The…
THE cash-strapped Bulawayo City Council’s woes are far from over as its employees are demanding a salary review citing a volatile economic situation in the country. Last year during the same period, all council employees downed tools demanding better working conditions in a development that crippled service delivery in almost all of city departments. The…
