By Brandon Josphat and Masimba Makwembere ZIMBABWEANS want authorities to sustain their current fiscal and monetary policies which have resulted in relative stability in the prices of basic goods in the country over the past three months. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, a wide cross-section of key stakeholders — including consumer representatives, workers’ unions…
PROVIDERS of private health care should charge affordable fees to ensure that vulnerable members of society get access to key services, authorities say. Speaking in the second city yesterday, the deputy minister of Health, Sleiman Timios Kwidini, said this was what the government envisaged in the planned National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). “The government wants…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday challenged the country’s youth to report drug peddlers to authorities in order to end the national drug and substance abuse scourge. Officially opening the 32nd junior Parliament in Mt Hampden, Mnangagwa said the rate at which the youths are taking drug and substance abuse was worrying his administration.“It is heart-breaking that…
By Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zwTHE government is working on introducing a hepatitis B vaccine at birth as part of its strategy to achieve the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s validation targets for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is an infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis B virus that can…
SEVERAL armed robbers and burglars were convicted and jailed for lengthy terms last week as the country’s judiciary stiffens its resolve to clamp down on crime, the National Prosecution Authority of Zimbabwe (NPAZ) has said. In one of the cases, Tobias Chidavaenzi, 54, and Leonard Muzenda, 24, were sentenced to 70 years in prison (65…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE commander of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Anselem Sanyatwe, says the ruling Zanu PF will remain in power “forever”. Sanyatwe — who succeeded David Sigauke as the boss of the country’s army last year — also argued this past weekend that there was nothing wrong with the military getting involved…
By Blessings Mashaya mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are working on major penal reforms to decongest the country’s overcrowded prisons and to focus more on the rehabilitation of offenders. In this regard too, the government wants to establish more open prisons and pre-trial diversion programmes for child offenders. This comes as the country’s jails have once again far…
By Rutendo Ngara HARARE businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe have clocked a week in remand prison as they seek bail following their arrest last week on Wednesday on allegations of defrauding US$7 million from the State in a presidential goat scheme. They are back in court today after magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa yesterday postponed their…
By Ketty Nyoni and Masimba Makwembere THE life expectancy of Zimbabwean women has increased from 66,5 to 68 years between 2021 and 2024, while their male counterparts’ remain static at 61 years, the government has said. Addressing a post-cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Jenfan Muswere said this was revealed in the National…
FORMER deputy minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Simelisizwe Sibanda, has apologised for his call for the transfer of a non-Ndebele speaking teacher stationed in the Matabeleland region, which was deemed to have tribal connotations. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday relieved the Bubi constituency legislator of his duties as the deputy minister…
