Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw NURSES have written to the government demanding over $200 0000 per month if their salaries are to continue being paid in local currency. In the letter dated July 14 to acting Health minister Amon Murwira, the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) said their salaries are too low. “If we are…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A SENIOR police officer and his juniors together with a law officer from the National Prosecuting Authority have been arrested on allegations of receiving housing stands as bribes from council officials who were involved in a US$1 million stands scam. It is alleged that assistant commissioner Obeylaw Moyo, who is…
BULAWAYO legislator Anele Ndebele has revived calls for the city’s on-going water crisis to be declared “a state of national disaster” as 13 residents have died due to diarrhoea-related diseases arising from contaminated tap water. Two months ago, government rebuffed calls by residents to declare the city’s water crisis a national disaster citing a report…
AT least 11 895 kilogrammes of dagga was recovered in Beitbridge after a police patrol team along Limpopo River intercepted three men carrying two wooden drawers and a wrapped cardboard box which they abruptly abandoned. “The trio fled to the South African side after police informed them that they were under arrest for violating Covid-19…
A RUWA man has been nabbed on allegations of sneaking into his stepdaughter’s blankets before raping and impregnating her. Isaac Whisky, 39, was not asked to plead to a charge of rape when he appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko. He was remanded in custody to today for the State to verify the age of…
THE Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the global beverage giant, has availed funding to boost Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS)’s response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) which has so far claimed 20 lives out of over a thousand people who tested positive to the killer virus. As a result of the partnership, ZRCS) is currently…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office after allegedly seconding his personal assistant to the board of the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) without due process, has raised complaints against the conduct of the State in handling…
THE State wants bail revoked for lawyer Tapiwa Makanza who is accused of filling a case with a fictitious name at the Constitutional Court while challenging the appointment of the Prosecutor-General. Makanza, who is jointly charged with Joshuwa Chirambwe, is out on $20 000 bail and the State alleges he is interfering with investigations which…
A total of 13 student nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19 amid concern that frontline health workers remain exposed to the deadly pandemic. This comes as 14 nurses at the same institution also tested positive for the virus last month. Earlier on, about 197 health workers were sent on self-isolation after…
A 42-YEAR-OLD man from Chitungwiza landed himself in trouble after he was arrested for stealing a billboard at the National Sports Stadium. Phillip Maphosa was seen cutting the billboard into pieces outside the stadium premises before fleeing from security guards. He admitted to theft charge when he appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko. Maphosa is…
