LIFE continues to get harder by the day for poor Zimbabweans, as the cost of living in the country keeps rising — amid the worsening prices and local currency crisis. This comes as the hapless Zim dollar continues to plunge, causing the prices of basic goods to shoot up ever so often, amid desperate calls…
WOMEN’S shelter and rights advocacy group, Musasa Project, is worried sick about the worsening cases of rape in the country. This comes after the civil society organisation recorded a staggering 6 000 cases of rape last year — a shocking 80 percent of which had involved family members of the victims. Musasa Project — which…
By Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on Friday set to preside over the signing of performance contracts by ministers and heads of public sector agencies to ensure improved service delivery. Mnangagwa introduced performance-based contracts in 2022 to foster a high-performance culture and enhance accountability and good governance among office bearers. According to a…
THE government says it is putting in place measures, including duty free importation of maize and rice, to guarantee food security as the country faces a debilitating El Nino induced drought this year. The drought that is ravaging most countries in the Sadc region is threatening Zimbabwe’s targeted three million grain output. Speaking during a…
TWO security guards, employed by J and P Security, who pleaded guilty on Monday to pocketing US$53 000 they snatched while responding to a Quest Financial Services robbery last month, have been sentenced to 48 months in prison each. Cornelius Muchikange and Nesbert Kachungwe appeared before Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera facing theft charges. The two…
THE United Kingdom (UK) says Zimbabwe is a country with great potential which needs to foster national unity, openness and accountability to lift it out of its current economic challenges. Speaking during a debate on Zimbabwe in the House of Lords last week, British minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Tariq Mahmood…
By Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE is expected to conclude an agreement this week that will see the country exporting water to neighbouring South Africa. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) due to be signed on Thursday, Beitbridge Water Treatment Works will supply about 15 million cubic metres of water annually to Musina Municipality. Agriculture, Lands,…
ZIMBABWEANS based in the United States of America (US) are working on the construction of a biotechnology city in Harare aimed at improving the country’s economic and health sectors. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, the chairperson of IMPI Inc, a biotech consortium, Tawanda Gumbo, said the city would be anchored on developing…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Atlanta Black Chambers (ABC) trade delegation from the United States of America (US) is in the country to explore business opportunities as it seeks to strengthen Washington’s economic relations with Harare. The delegation, which would be in the country until Sunday, aims to promote trade partnerships and strengthen ties between the…
A HARARE school director, who was recently sentenced to 36 months in prison after being found guilty of kidnapping one of his employees, has approached the High Court seeking to appeal against both the conviction and sentence. Leonard Chiwaya was last month convicted of kidnapping and was sentenced to an effective 24 months in prison…
