© THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Climate Services Centre (CSC) has forecast heavy rainfall in most parts of the region for the period December 31, 2019 to January 6 ? except Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] According to the CSC, there is a likelihood of rainfall exceeding 50mm in some parts of the Sadc region during the…
© AT LEAST 111 people died in 1 406 reported road accidents during the recent festive season — December 15, 2019 to January 2, 2020 — a 13 percent decrease compared to 128 people killed in the same period last year. [GoogleAd] The police attributed the cause of accidents to speeding, reversing errors, following the…
© TYPHOID and cholera vaccination should be included in the childhood immunisation programme to curb the spread of the water-borne diseases among children and ensure immunity, a health expert has said. [GoogleAd] Speaking to the Daily News, Harare City Council’s health services director Prosper Chonzi said the local authority’s health department is working with the…
© MAPHISA Growth Point in Matobo, Matabeleland South, has gone for more than four months without electricity in a development that has left the area without running water, posing a health time bomb. [GoogleAd] Thieves stole copper cables connecting Maphisa and Gwanda, plunging the area into darkness, affecting major operations in the area and left…
© UNIFIED Councils Pension Fund has taken Chitungwiza Municipality to the High Court for reportedly failing to pay over $13 million towards its employees’ pension contributions. [GoogleAd] The fund, which recently took a number of other local authorities to court, said despite Chitungwiza Municipality having made an undertaking to pay the debt in 2017, nothing…
© A JEALOUS Odzi man who assaulted and ordered his ex-girlfriend to strip before forcing her to walk back to her house naked has been jailed for four months. [GoogleAd] Charles Mbaara of Chiwere area under Chief Marange, Manicaland, had found Laiza Karenje chatting with another man. Magistrate Notebulgar Muchineripi convicted Mbaara on his own…
© THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has courted the ire of residents and stakeholders after it emerged this week that the local authority could not effectively provide emergency services due to fuel shortages. [GoogleAd] This comes at a time most service stations in the city had fuel despite the high demand owing to the busy…
© MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, yesterday warned his ambitious lieutenants and those who are not pulling in the same direction with him that he will not hesitate to cut them loose in order to make the country’s biggest opposition party a formidable force. [GoogleAd] In his new year message, the opposition leader outlined the…
© CHIVI South legislator Killer Zivhu has accused some Zanu PF bigwigs in Masvingo of stealing 15 tonnes of rice that was meant for his constituency, the Daily News reports. [GoogleAd] The embarrassing development comes as half the population of Zimbabwe is facing starvation, including those settled in Masvingo — which is among the regions…
© POLICE are throwing the kitchen sink at machete gangs around the country, with scores arrested in Mashonaland Central this week alone as fed-up authorities step up their crackdown on the criminals, the Daily News reports. [GoogleAd] This comes as rights groups have warned that grisly killings by machete-wielding gold panners risk plunging the country…
