THE Harare City Council (HCC) has announced that the ongoing rehabilitation of the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant is scheduled for completion in the next 14 months. The extensive project involves upgrading the treatment plant, installing a smart metering system, and repairing the dilapidated distribution network in phases. This initiative comes as residents continue to…
ZIMBABWE now has one of the most unequal societies in the world, which is neither good nor sustainable, veteran economist and presidential biographer Eddie Cross has said. The concerned Cross lamented at the weekend that while a few people in the country, who included both black and white, had amassed obscene wealth — many of…
ZIMBABWE recorded a significant increase in tourist arrivals in the second quarter of 2025, with 471 041 visitors entering the country, up from 381 293 during the same period in 2024, according to Zimstat. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa implored international exhibitors to continue supporting the country’s tourism products. In a transport statistics brief,…
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has called for urgent reforms to the Immigration Act, which currently allows for the arrest and imprisonment of undocumented immigrants. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, ZHRC chairperson Jessie Majome said the commission is working in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to establish dedicated detention centres…
MORE than 15 000 children under the age of five in the country were treated for malnutrition last year — from the 1,9 million who were screened then. In this regard, the United Nations agency for children, Unicef, has been implementing various interventions nationwide to complement the government’s efforts, including distributing vitamin supplements to marginalised…
THE country recorded eight common diarrhoea deaths from the 9 705 cases that were recorded in the week ending September 14. The Ministry of Health and Child Care confirmed the deaths yesterday, saying Mashonaland West Province had been the worst hit by the infectious disease during the period, with most of the cases that were…
A FIRE broke out at the Jambanja informal market in Chitungwiza late Friday night after vendors burning trash failed to control the blaze. This is the third fire in recent weeks, following two incidents that devastated Glen View 8 Home Industry in Harare, leaving many traders destitute. Chitungwiza Municipality spokesperson Tafadzwa Kachiko confirmed no one…
A SEX workers’ organisation has launched a nation-wide campaign to combat rampant sexual exploitation of children. Speaking at an outreach event in Epworth on Thursday, the national coordinator for Springs of Life, Precious Msindo, said the drive was meant to protect children. “We are running a campaign to educate and raise awareness about guardians who…
ZIMBABWE needs to come up with innovative financing solutions to enhance domestic resource mobilisation amid rising health demands, such as for anti-retroviral drugs, said UN resident and Humanitarian coordinator Edward Kallon. The call comes after USAid funding cuts led to the termination of numerous vital health and development projects, including those related to malaria prevention,…
THE government is taking steps to end the country’s power outages by approving a partnership between the Zimbabwe Power Company and Jindal (Private) Limited. This collaboration will focus on rehabilitating Hwange Power Station units one up to six and their auxiliary equipment, which have become obsolete and are a major cause of the ongoing crisis….
