HARARE – A member of the Presidential Guard accused of stealing 119 laptops, three desktop computers and accessories belonging to former president Robert Mugabe has been acquitted. Pepukai Zvakavapano, 32, who was said to have broken into Zimbabwe House in early April last year, was freed by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande who ruled that the…
HARARE – The national rate of road deaths rose during the holiday period, recently-released data shows. In the past two weeks, 111 people have died, and there have been 1 590 major crashes. Several crashes in different provinces over the Christmas period involved multiple fatalities. But statistics for the year immediately preceding the holiday period…
HARARE – At least 60 babies were delivered on January 1, at major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo, while some of us were busy staring at the fireworks going off in the sky on New Year’s Eve. The first babies of the New Year arrived to much fanfare for their families, with 2019 decorations to…
HARARE – The Meteorological Department (Met Department) is forecasting torrential rains to cause havoc throughout the country in the coming few days. According to the Met Department, rains and windstorm will strike tomorrow morning with meteorologist James Ngoma saying the weather would be in a turbulent mood for the next few days. Ngoma said precipitation…
MUTARE – Hlanganiso Matangaidze, a leading businessman from Manicaland Province, who died on Saturday, was laid to rest at the provincial shrine in the eastern border city of Mutare yesterday. The businessman had been declared a provincial hero for his immense philanthropic work and contribution to society through his vast business interests. The who’s who…
HARARE – Striking junior doctors have vowed to continue with their month-long industrial action despite claims by government that the two sides have reached a consensus on the majority of their demands. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) secretary-general Mthabisi Bhebhe told the Daily News yesterday that no such consensus had been reached with the Health…
HARARE – Junior doctors have lost their quest to get permission to appeal against a Labour Court ruling that ordered them to end their month-long industrial action. The doctors had filed an application for leave to appeal in a bid to challenge justices Betty Chidziva and Gladys Mhuri’s ruling that the medical practitioners did not…
HARARE – Government was yesterday left with egg on its face after Zimbabwe’s embassy in the United Kingdom was named among 23 diplomatic missions that are not paying their rates. The diplomatic missions now owe the British taxman more than £1,5 million in unpaid business rates, which should have been paid on December 31, 2017….
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing lives. In a statement, Mnangagwa said he ended his annual leave to directly engage his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga, over the…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing lives. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
