SENIOR doctors will now be attending to more critical patients in hospitals after expanding their emergency services mode aimed at assisting stranded Zimbabweans while they continue with their strike. The doctors downed tools last October citing incapacitation of hospitals in terms of drugs, sundries and equipment and doctors’ poor remuneration which they said does not…
YESTERDAY we led with an extraordinary story of Njube High School students in Bulawayo who held a protest over fees hikes while also demanding that their teachers be paid better salaries by the government. This was unprecedented! The students marched from the high density suburb to a service station in neighbouring Entumbane, before they were…
© A 56-year-old Harare woman faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment after being found in possession of post and telecommunication cables at her residence. Mavis Chawabvunza was charged with contravening provisions of the Postal and Telecommunications Act and the Electricity Act which prohibit possession of any material used in connection with the transmission, distribution and…
© A HARARE man, who duped local businesses of $1,5 million after misrepresenting that he could facilitate purchase of goods in bulk from South Africa, has been brought before the courts. Munyaradzi Paraiwa, 49, who fronted Sedcom Marketing (Pvt) Ltd, was charged with fraud when he appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa recently. He is…
© MEMBERS of the newly-formed Judiciary Employees Union of Zimbabwe (JEUZ) have claimed intimidation and victimisation of its members at the Bulawayo Master of the High Court office. JEUZ, which was formed in September last year in a bid to promote the welfare of judiciary workers, has since written to the Judicial Services Commission (JSC)…
© DEFENCE ministry procurement director Peter Muchakazi and an accountant, Mervyn Kunofiwa Madondo, were yesterday barred from entering Defence House after they appeared in court facing charges of criminal abuse. Muchakazi was released on $5 000 bail while Kunofiwa paid $3 000, and both were ordered to continue residing at their current addresses, report thrice…
© THE number of couples that filed for divorce at the Bulawayo High Court between January and December last year marginally declined to 674 compared to 820 the previous year. During the same period, 1 267 couples got married in terms of the Marriage Act Chapter 5:11 at the Bulawayo Magistrates’ Courts. Lawyers and religious…
© THE African Development Bank (AfDB) yesterday gave Zimbabwe a US$10,4 million grant to improve the country’s domestic resource mobilisation and public sector management systems. The government will provide an additional US$1,1 million to the grant. The grant, which would be released under the Tax and Accountability Enhancement Project (TAEP), will benefit the Zimbabwe Revenue…
© MASVINGO United Ratepayers and Residents Alliance (Murra) has hit out at unscrupulous people who are selling water at boreholes sunk by non-governmental organisations to ease severe shortages in Zimbabwe’s oldest town. Murra spokesperson Godfrey Mutimba told the Daily News there was an upsurge of water barons who are capitalising on the water shortages in…
© SUSPENDED Chitungwiza town clerk George Makunde has been implicated in a recent audit report for illegally allocating fuel to a female council official since 2013. According to the audit report, Makunde allocated 80 litres of fuel to a human resources manager who was supposed to get only 40 litres weekly. In his letter to…
