HARARE – Crafty Zanu PF politicians are making a killing by allocating space at sites designated by the Harare City Council (HCC) for vendors who are being moved from the central business district (CBD) following the outbreak of cholera early this month. In the wake of the cholera outbreak which has killed nearly 50 people,…
HARARE – Former Botswana president Ian Khama has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against entertaining fly by night foreign investors who do not add value to the country’s tottering economy, the Daily News on Sunday can report. Speaking during a Confederation of Zimbabwe Industry Investment Forum in Bulawayo on Thursday,the truth-telling Khama who fell out with…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is strengthening voluntary compliance measures in order to tackle rampant tax evasion, the tax collector’s chief Faith Mazani, has said. This comes as the issue of tax corruption and evasion has become complex countrywide with experts likening it to organised crime. Zimbabwe’s compliance rate is only 25 percent,…
HARARE – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for the review of the cholera vaccine following revelations that the infectious disease which broke out in Harare this month is multi-drug resistant. WHO’s disease prevention and control officer Anderson Chimusoro told the Daily News yesterday that the specialised health agency of the United Nations had…
HARARE – Government will provide $500 and two bags of rice to cater for funeral arrangements for each family that lost loved ones in a bus accident which occurred in Polokwane, South Africa. At least nine Zimbabweans perished in the Limpopo Province of South Africa in a road crash involving an Intercape bus travelling from…
HARARE – CBZ Holdings Limited has successfully raised the $75 million required by government to fund the purchase of maize from farmers for the 2018 buying season. In a notice issued yesterday, the bank which is the financial advisor to the Agricultural Marketing Authority (Ama), said the grain bills were fully subscribed for. “The Agricultural…
HARARE – Members of the public have been invited to submit information on the politically-motivated violence that rocked central Harare on August 1, resulting in the death of seven people. In a statement, the secretary to the commission, Virginia Mabiza, said the submissions would be protected by law and will be received on a “without…
HARARE – Government will continue to train teachers at various tertiary institutions despite its failure to absorb them owing to a recruitment freeze placed by the Public Service Commission. This was revealed by Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira during a question and answer session in the Senate on Thursday. He was responding to…
HARARE – Lactating female inmates will soon benefit from an open prison system to be introduced by government, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. The new system is meant to ensure that the incarceration of mothers does not infringe on the rights of their children. “I want to advise that those are…
HARARE – Government is mulling prohibiting commuter omnibuses from operating in central business districts (CBDs) in order to restore sanity in city centres, the Daily News can report. The move was first initiated by the Harare City Council (HCC) in February this year only to be reversed by the Local Government ministry, citing inadequate consultations…
