THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has come under pressure to build more primary schools as the demand has sharply increased over the years owing to the local authority’s growing population. This comes amid revelations by the council in a recent report that Bulawayo urgently needs an additional 25 primary schools to ease congestion. Speaking during…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES should revert back to sending electricity bills together with city council rates to help cash-strapped local authorities to improve their finances, the Mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume, has said. Speaking on Thursday night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s widely-followed news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Mafume said such a move…
CIVIL Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) director general Elijah Chingosho is retiring with effect from November 5 this year, the agency board…
ALL is set for tomorrow morning’s eagerly anticipated meeting in Harare between the new governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ),…
By Brandon Josphat and Jeffrey Muvundusi ONE of the suspects who robbed Quest Financial Services in Belgravia, Harare, in February has been shot dead by the police after attempting to shoot them. This comes after six suspects were arrested recently after breaking into the company and stealing over US$700 000, 10 500 Rand and Euro…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE man was arraigned before the courts for allegedly raping and assaulting his juvenile wife after she declined to have anal intercourse with him. Tyson Rusike (26) from Churu Farm in Glenview appeared before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei facing rape charges and was remanded in custody to Friday. He was ordered…
BY BRANDON JOSPHATSenior Staff Writer BUSINESS has welcomed the commitment by the new governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John Mushayavanhu, that he will not engage in quasi-fiscal activities which have been blamed for fuelling inflation and exchange rate volatility in the country in the past. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday…
THE government has called on road authorities countrywide to ensure timeous remittance of Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) acquittals to enhance the maintenance and of the country’s road infrastructure. Addressing delegates during the last day of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development tour of Zinara operations in Bulawayo yesterday, deputy minister of…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE government says it will compensate families which are being displaced from their homesteads during the emergency road rehabilitation programme that is currently taking place countrywide. This comes as the authorities in 2022 launched the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 better known here as ERRP2 to ensure all roads are repaired after…
THE new governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John Mushayavanhu, will interact with the who’s who of local business, academia…
