THE MDC Alliance structures in Bulawayo have recommended the expulsion of the party’s provincial chairperson James Sithole over a slew of allegations, including his alleged links to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC. This emerged in a heated eight-hour long provincial committee meeting which took place at the party’s offices last week, in a latest development of…
BINGA traditional leader Chief Siabuwa says years of neglect of the district’s roads have contributed negatively to the growth of its tourism industry. Binga is known for a wide range of attractive, but less publicised sand beaches along the Zambezi River, hot springs, sight-seeing, hunting, fishing, boating and a rich culture. Speaking to the Daily News recently,…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has reached out to the sparsely-populated and marginalised San community in Tsholotsho, as the organisation starts the mapping and household listing exercise ahead of next year’s population census. This comes as the government last week announced that the head counting exercise will commence in April next year with results…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has finally been given the green light by the Local Government ministry to fill all its vacant staff posts. Service delivery in the city has been greatly crippled as BCC had at least 1 341 vacant staff posts, especially in the health department where workers were resigning en masse for greener pastures…
INFORMATION Communication Technology minister Jenfan Muswere hopes Community Information Centres (CICs) the government is setting up across the country will help fight drug abuse as the youth will have less idle time on their hands. Muswere was speaking in Binga yesterday where his ministry and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) were…
VICTORIA Falls residents are up in arms with council over its proposal to hike rates, arguing their major source of income —…
RESIDENTS, here, say they are now living in fear following an increase in the number of violent armed robbery cases in the city. This also comes as Bulawayo police commissioner Patton Mbangwa recently told business leaders that resource constraints were hampering effective policing in the city, as the service was battling motor vehicle shortages. Residents…
THE government says it is struggling to plug gold leakages, which has seen the country losing at least US$100 million monthly. Speaking to journalists in Bulawayo at the weekend, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said Zimbabwe was losing a substantial amount of foreign currency due to smuggling. “We are also aware of the leakages where gold…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, says Zimbabwe will have surplus electricity in the next four years, with a capacity to generate over 5 000 megawatts due to the country’s relations with China, which he claimed are paying dividends. This comes as deputy Energy minister Magna Mudyiwa recently told Parliament that Zesa Holdings (Zesa) was in serious…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says shortages of refuse removal vehicles are to blame for the local authority’s failure to collect rubbish…
