© A 42-YEAR-OLD Murewa woman has been arrested after being found in possession of over 1 000 kilogrammes of ivory worth US$176 000. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi, said the woman was arrested this week after a tip off that she was keeping ivory at her homestead, with an intention of smuggling it out of…
© GOVERNMENT is set to improve conditions in the country’s prisons, Justice, Legal and Parliamen- tary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. “We are looking to improve our prisons in terms of infra- structure and we are looking at how we can grow our own food at prison farms so that we can improve our…
© ZIMBABWE National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) has projected that the country’s population will grow to 21,39 million by 2032, at an average annual growth rate of 2,35 percent. Zimbabwe’s last population census in 2012 estimated the population to be 13,5 million, but Zimstats estimates that the current population is 15,76 million. The next census will…
© GOVERNMENT’S land reform programme has failed to end rural poverty in the country almost 29 years after landless black Zimba- bweans got access to the resource, World Bank economists say. This is contained in a report titled: “How can Zimbabwe tackle its entrenched poverty traps” written by Rob Swinkels in collaboration with World Bank…
© GOVERNMENT has pleaded with civil servants to be patient as it is reportedly working tirelessly to ensure they get a decent living wage. This comes as civil servants, who declared incapacitation recently, have threatened to sabotage government programmes if authorities continue to disregard their demands for better working conditions. [GoogleAd] Finance and Economic Development…
BRITISH Labour party MP Katey Hoey has sensationally-claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is destroying the country like his predecessor Robert Mugabe did. Posting on her Twitter ac- count, Hoey said Mnangagwa has failed to run Zimbabwe. “It has been a privilege to chair the All Party Zimbabwe Group in Parliament and speak up for that…
© THE council nurses’ strike is affecting service delivery, especially the maternity section, council health services director Prosper Chonzi said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, Chonzi said the number of nurses who report for work on night duty has decreased since their declaration of incapacitation, but some do come on morning call. [GoogleAd] “Today…
© THE Chamber of Mines has painted a gloomy picture of the country’s mining sector, saying it is shadowed by high costs of pro- duction, regular power outages, inadequate foreign exchange retentions, unpredictable policies, among a litany of other challeng- es which are affecting competi- tiveness on the global market. [GoogleAd] Mining contributes around 16…
© ZIMBABWE Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrieta Rushwaya was on Wednesday night involved in a car accident just outside Kwekwe on her way from Gweru, but escaped unhurt in a crash which claimed one person. The ZMF boss was coming from the artisanal miners’ Annual General Meeting at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the guest…
© THE High Court has granted a request by mem- bers of the Cattle Ownership Society Association (Cosa), who were seeking to join Marvellous Shumba in a case in which they lost over $8 million in a botched cattle breeding scheme. In August, the members filed summons against Cattle Ownership Trust seeking an order to…
