HARARE – Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old. Nurses in the country’s public hospitals as well as their counterparts in the education sectors downed their tools yesterday to force…
HARARE – The bond note is increasingly suffering rejection from the corporate sector after Delta Corporation Limited went public on Wednesday saying it will be selling its products in hard currency. Delta said the move was aimed at sustaining its operations in the wake of serious shortages of foreign currency. Analysts told the Daily News…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa’s opposition MDC has called for an inquiry into an Alouette III helicopter that was forced into crash landing in the Mchakazi area in Gutu Central this week. The helicopter crash-landed near Ranga School after it developed a fault while airborne. According to State TV, the chopper was travelling to Gutu from…
HARARE – The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) is prepared to provide assistance to the general population in the event of impending heavy rains as forecast by the Meteorological Services Department. In an interview the CPU director, Nathan Nkomo, yesterday said the department — which is housed under the Local Government ministry — had ready food…
HARARE – A South Africa-based Harare woman yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts on charges of smuggling drugs with a street value of $27 018 and is to be sentenced today. Appearing before magistrate Learnmore Mapiya, Judith Munemo, 33, pleaded guilty to the charge of contravening section 3(1) of the Medicines and Allied Substances…
HARARE – Harare residents have warned that the water-rationing regime mulled by the city will further plunge the capital city into a disease outbreak era. Community Water Alliance national coordinator Hildaberta Rwambiwa told the Daily News that they had warned council on the need to protect the city’s catchment areas but to no avail. Rwambiwa’s…
CHITUNGWIZA – Chitungwiza councillor Kiven Mutimbanyoka yesterday came to the rescue of the local authority after he donated diesel for service delivery. Chitungwiza Town Clerk George Makunde said the Zanu PF councillor supplied 630 litres of diesel that will fuel refuse collection vehicles. The donation comes as the local authority has been struggling with refuse…
HARARE – Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday made his first appearance in months following his battle with a kidney ailment last September. Moyo made a surprise appearance at the State House, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa received credentials of new ambassadors from United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Spain and Rwanda. The new ambassadors are Santiago Gomez-Acebo…
HARARE – Prices of school uniforms have gone up once again ahead of the beginning of the first term for the 2019 calendar year on Tuesday. Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers president Denford Mutashu told the Daily News yesterday that the price increases were a result of the steep cost of accessing foreign currency on the…
HARARE – A company owned by former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has applied for a licence to operate a 36 megawatt (MW) solar plant. According to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority, TD Energy (Private) Limited wants to construct, own, operate and maintain the solar plant called Ecosoft Solar Plant at the corner…
