AUTHORITIES have started identifying all the people who are eligible to pay the country’s much-debated new wealth tax, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured the nation that no one will starve despite the threatening El Nino-induced drought saying his government had put in place contingent measures. This comes as farmers have lost all hope of harvesting anything from their fields this season with the government advising that they make animal feed from the drying…
FORMER Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer (CEO) and retired colonel of the Zimbabwe National Army, Karikoga Kaseke, has died. He was 62. Kaseke died early yesterday morning at a private hospital in Harare. He suffered a major stroke in 2018 and retired from the ZTA in 2021 on medical grounds. ZTA acting CEO…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A FOOT and Mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has hit Manicaland and Mashonaland East provinces with more than 200 infections having been recorded. This comes as the country is battling to grow the national herd to six million as the livestock sector continues to face huge setbacks such as drought and…
THE government has once again spent millions of United States dollars on top-of-the-range off-road vehicles for the country’s traditional leaders. Speaking in Harare yesterday, at the handover of 100 brand new Isuzu double cab trucks, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the move was meant to ensure that chiefs enjoyed dignified standards of living. “Given the role…
STUNNING details have emerged from this week’s US$720 000 armed robbery in Harare, with police revealing how some of the suspects in the case had gone on a shopping spree before they were arrested. This comes after six of the suspects appeared in court yesterday, before being handed back to the police for further investigations….
PUBLIC broadcaster, ZBC, has suspended its chief executive officer (CEO) Adelaide Chikunguru with immediate effect, the board confirmed yesterday in a statement. “The reasons for Adelaide Chikunguru’s suspension have been confidentially made known to her, but are not, however, being made public for the time being. “Meanwhile, the corporation’s finance director Assael Machakata has been…
WOMEN’s Affairs minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, will headline a stellar 3Ktv and Jester Media Services (JMS) early Women’s Day gathering to be held…
Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw MANY farmers across the country have lost all hope of harvesting anything from their non-irrigated fields this season, due to the El Niño-induced drought that is hammering most of the region. As a result, the government is advising all such affected farmers to turn the little that remains of their crops into…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) last year raised $868 billion from road fees and a bulk of the money will go into road rehabilitation. This was confirmed yesterday by Zinara chairperson George Manyaya while presenting the road fund disbursement report for the year 2023 in Harare where he added…
