Magistrates’ courts have increased criminal offence fines by 100 percent as the cost of the country’s justice delivery system rises beyond the reach of many. [GoogleAd] The new fines which were published in a recent Government Gazette have since become law according to Section 27 of the Finance Act. The new scale follows the repeal…
ELECTORAL Resource Centre (ERC) has launched a post-election initiative meant to mobilise Zimbabweans to follow-up on election promises and election reforms among other things. [GoogleAd] ERC executive director Tawanda Chimhini said engaging citizens in the electoral reform process was important in ensuring credible, free and fair elections in 2023. He said starting this process eight…
ZANU PF Bulawayo province is deeply divided over firebrand former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda, pictured, who is being tipped to take over the province’s chairmanship. The province was left without a chair after Callistus Ndlovu passed away last month. [GoogleAd] A few weeks later, President Emmerson Mnangagwa dissolved its entire leadership and assigned his…
ON three occasions, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, has been forced to cut short his foreign trips to attend to pressing matters back home — raising questions about the quality of advice he is getting from those around him. In January, Mnangagwa abandoned his annual holiday after his deputy Constantino Chiwenga failed to contain a strike…
WORKERS in the funeral industry have been awarded a seven percent salary increase to cushion them against the harsh economic conditions, government has announced. According to this week’s Government Gazette, the salary adjustment is with effect from January 1. [GoogleAd] The least paid employee in the funeral services sector was earning $297,05 a month prior…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday left the country for Angola on a one-day visit. In his absence, Vice President Kembo Mohadi will be the acting president. [GoogleAd] The ministry of Information posted on its twitter handle yesterday that Mnangagwa will be attending the commemoration of Southern African Liberation Day, the Cuito Cuanavale. The day was declared…
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) board is said to have agreed in principle to a tariff adjustment by the country’s mobile network operators (MNOs). [GoogleAd] The Daily News on Sunday learnt yesterday that the newly-appointed Potraz board acceded to requests from MNO for an upward review in tariffs at its meeting…
AS the country joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Tuberculosis Day today, Zimbabwe has made significant steps in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). [GoogleAd] Statistics show that Zimbabwe recorded 751 drug-resistant cases last year, compared to 920 the previous year. Health experts attribute the reduction to HIV and TB screenings being undertaken…
THE human toll of Cyclone Idai which hit parts of Manicaland and Masvingo recently has exceeded official estimates with the scale of the tragedy imprinting deep emotional scars on those directly affected by it. The Daily News on Sunday crew and aid agencies on the ground in Chimanimani detail how entire villages and business centres…
GOVERNMENT, through the ministry of Health and Child Care, will next week administer the second dose of the Oral Cholera Vaccine (OVC2) amid reports that no new cholera cases have been recorded in Harare since November 2018. [GoogleAd] The initiative, being undertaken with support from the World Health Organisation and other partners, follows the first…
