HARARE – Two Zimbabwean hospitality properties have made the best hotels in Africa list by leading UK newspaper The Telegraph. Falls Safari Lodge and Victoria Falls Safari Club were named among the best hotels in Africa. Both Victoria Falls hotels were described as having “fabulous sunset views and a waterhole in the ground frequented by…
ESIGODINI – President Emmerson Mnangagwa threw out the contentious motion to up the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years that had been reverently pushed by the war veterans and the ruling party women’s league. The Zanu PF national people’s conference declined to adopt the constitutional amendment to sideline opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from…
ESIGODINI – Amid deepening poverty in the country, Zanu PF splurged millions of dollars on its two-day annual conference on food, accommodation and transport, with the ruling party even gloating that it paid for all the services rendered. At least all the 6 000 delegates at the annual conference were treated to packed breakfast and…
CHIREDZI – Chiredzi North farmers are threatening to spear to death lions they say are killing their livestock. The lions have reportedly killed dozens of cows and goats at a small farmstead in Chiredzi North. The predators, said to be from Gonarezhou Game Park, are said to be going in search of food outside the…
HARARE – National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has handed 133 certificates to workers after undergoing eight weeks training under the Occupational Safety and Health Management Course (Oshemac). Speaking at the ceremony, Oshemac official Benjamin Mutetwa told graduates that the country has recorded 5 000 occupational injuries in the past five years. “We believe we have…
HARARE – Guruve Rural District Council (RDC) is scheduled to auction stray livestock on December 28, at the Sememeka Pound. In a statement, the RDC noted that the auction is done as permitted under the Stock Trespass Act of impounded and unclaimed stray livestock. “Notice is hereby given that there shall be by public auction,…
HARARE – The Labour Court ruled on Friday that the ongoing strike by doctors was legal. The Court threw out an application in which the Health Services board (HSB) sought to have the strike deemed illegal. In its application, the HSB condemned the doctors’ industrial action arguing that they are not supposed to strike as…
HARARE – The government said yesterday that it had begun addressing the dire situation at public hospitals — including bringing in critically short medicines and equipment, which has led to embarrassing claims that doctors are now even using condoms as surgical gloves during medical procedures. However, striking doctors retorted immediately, telling the Daily News that…
HARARE – Zanu PF bigwigs who gathered in Esigodini for their party’s annual conference last week pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to act quickly and decisively to stem the country’s worsening economic rot and corruption, in the interests of long-suffering Zimbabweans and social cohesion. In their end of conference resolutions at the weekend, which were…
HARARE – Zanu PF bigwigs who gathered in Esigodini for their party’s annual conference last week pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to act quickly and decisively to stem the country’s worsening economic rot and corruption, in the interests of long-suffering Zimbabweans and social cohesion. Sign up to receive DAILY NEWS mobile phone text alerts…
