AS THE country’s second city continues to grapple with hordes of inebriated halfwits who routinely urinate in public spaces, municipal officials will now go after all unlicensed liquor stores. Speaking during a full council meeting this week, the mayor of Bulawayo, David Coltart, said there was an alarming increase in shebeens being established by residents…
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has died. He was 84. Ministry of Information permanent secretary Nick Mangwana confirmed the death to the Daily News yesterday. He died in India where he was receiving medical attention. Mphoko, a veteran of the country’s liberation struggle, was born on June 11, 1940. A politician, businessman and former military…
ASPIRING Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) vice president Gift Banda has been granted US$500 bail pending trial on allegations of forging an Ordinary Level (‘O’ Level) examination result slip. Banda yesterday appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Sibongile MsipaMarondedze facing one count of forgery and pleaded not guilty. He was remanded to January 3, 2025 for trial….
Brighton Muronzereyi and Brandon Josphat STAFF WRITERS THERE are growing concerns over the future of major retail shops in the country, in the face of the ubiquitous and unregulated informal sector. Appearing before the parliamentary committee on Budget and Finance this week, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR), Denford Mutashu, confirmed that…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday dismissed an application for referral to the Constitutional Court filed by fraud-accused Harare businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe. In his ruling, Justice Kwenda, who described the application as frivolous and vexatious, said that the two should have raised their issue at the…
Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing a grave crisis in its cemetery operations, as ongoing challenges with equipment shortages and deteriorating infrastructure threaten to further complicate burial services in the city. During a recent full council meeting, councillors raised alarm over the state of the city’s cemeteries, particularly the Luveve…
Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw TEACHERS say ZiG 46 billion allocated to their ministry by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is inadequate to meet their needs. This is despite the fact that the ministry of Primary and Secondary Education was given the biggest chunk of the ZiG 276 billion 2025 National Budget which was delivered by…
STAFF WRITER THE ministry of Health and Child Care has revealed that more than 600 cases of dog bites were recorded in the past week alone. The ministry said 326 of the cases were from dogs which the authorities could not establish they had been vaccinated. “The Disease Surveillance Report for the week ending 24…
Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITERS NELSON Chamisa said yesterday that he was affronted after he was not able to exchange pleasantries with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Botswana last month. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — the former opposition leader said he had hoped to interact with, or…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has raised alarm over the continued decline in reservoirs water levels, leading to indefinite water supply interruptions in some suburbs. In a statement yesterday, BCC town clerk Christopher Dube said affected suburbs would receive water once reservoirs build up. “The city is experiencing low reservoir levels due to the continued…
