THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has urged residents in flood-prone areas to open their weep holes or risk facing legal action as the local authority seeks to push residents to ensure that storm-water drains naturally. This comes as some residents have defiantly refused to open their weep holes, in a development that has seen some…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw OPPOSITION leaders have renewed their bid for national dialogue to help mitigate the country’s escalating economic challenges which have recently seen some major businesses shutting down or downsizing their operations. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — they said yesterday that the nation’s economic hardships manifested Zimbabwe’s…
Ashley Moyo SENIOR LIFESTYLE WRITER moyoa@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s leading independent national commercial television station, 3Ktv, is continuing to set the pace for…
Masimba Makwembere makwemberemv@dailynews.co.zw A DEVASTATING road traffic accident that claimed the lives of 24 people yesterday along the Beitbridge-Masvingo highway near the Lutumba tollgate, has been declared a national disaster by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The horror crash came as the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe recently revealed that a staggering average of five people die…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw WANTED war veteran and Zanu PF central committee member, Blessing Geza, yesterday failed to turn up at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts where he is the complainant in a US$1,3 million fraud charge. Geza is reportedly on the run over four counts which, according to the police, include incitement to…
Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts to be the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) secretary general, has blocked the party’s MPs from attending a public lecture by the outfit’s leader Welshman Ncube as the infighting in the party rages on. This comes as Ncube organised the Morgan Tsvangirai Memorial Lecture on Saturday in…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw POLICE have launched a manhunt for war veteran and member of the Zanu PF central committee, Blessed Geza — who is facing four criminal charges, including alleged theft. National police spokesperson, Paul Nyathi, said yesterday that anyone who knew Geza’s whereabouts should get in touch with the police. “The Zimbabwe Republic Police…
STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw POWER utility Zesa is continuing to reel from its US$350 million foreign debt that is negatively impacting electricity supply in the country, it has emerged. As a result, Zesa is — for example — being forced to export 80 megawatts of electricity to Namibia every day, in a bid to service part…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy drowned in a drainage system in New Lobengula after slipping and being swept away by running water following heavy rains on Monday after – noon. The boy, identified as Sibusiso Methembe Moyo, was walking home with his eight-year-old brother when the incident occurred around 4pm. Confirming the incident,…
Masimba Makwembere makwemberemv@dailynews.co.zw THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) says it failed to meet its funding target of US$26,8 million last year as it only got 39 percent of the total amount they required to offer humanitarian assistance in the country. In a report released yesterday, Unicef said with the funds they got from their…
