SOUTH Africa is cranking up its crackdown on undocumented migrants living in the neighbouring country, including Zimbabweans. This has especially seen tens of thousands of Zimbabweans who are working in the regional economic powerhouse illegally fearing for the worst. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Community in South…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE government says it has put in place measures to ensure efficiency and transparency in the distribution of drought relief food hand-outs. This comes as an estimated 6 million people are expected to be food insecure in Zimbabwe during the 2024-2025 lean season. Speaking during a question and answer session in the…
THE government has partnered with stakeholders in training more health practitioners to curb brain drain, a senior official has said. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Entumbane-Njube legislator Prince Dube asked the deputy minister of Health Sleiman Kwidini about the government’s policy to curb brain drain in the health sector. ‘’Would the minister highlight…
BY MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE THE Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS NET) Network in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) says food shortage has hit most parts of the country. In a report released yesterday, FEWS NET and USAid said some people are now relying on the food assistance that is being provided…
Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITERS FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube did not do enough to address the plight of struggling workers and poor Zimbabweans in his mid-term budget review on Thursday. So say representatives of public sector workers and some economic experts, who told the Daily News yesterday that Ncube’s mid-term statement was “not pro-poor” —…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE bail ruling of Harare town clerk Hosiah Chisango and his accomplice Arkims Mandaza, who allegedly played a part in illegally awarding a US$9 million street lights tender to a company owned by businessman Moses Mpofu, has been set for Tuesday. This comes as the State has concluded leading evidence…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has injected US$50 million into the interbank foreign exchange market in order to consolidate Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) stability. The apex bank governor, John Mushayavanhu, yesterday said since the introduction of ZiG on April 5, the RBZ had been participating in the interbank foreign exchange market to supplement liquidity under…
By Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw A LEGISLATOR has raised serious concerns over the country’s rising child mortality. Speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Sikhuphukile Dube — a youth proportional representative for Bulawayo — called on authorities to urgently look into the deaths. Child mortality refers to the deaths of children under the age…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) Mutoko business unit manager Praise Makombore, 36, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly stealing 1 000 bags of presidential inputs scheme fertiliser. She is facing theft of trust property and corruptly concealing from a principal a personal interest in a transaction. Makombore was granted…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim leader, Welshman Ncube, and opposition stalwart, Morgen Komichi, say Zanu PF will not engage in serious dialogue with its political rivals if they remain as weak and as divided as they are. This comes after former Cabinet minister and MDC stalwart, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, recently said “nothing good” was…
