THE Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Midlands, Owen Ncube has called upon the Drug and Substance Abuse Committee in Kwekwe district to provide him with regular updates on the apprehension of drug barons. The Drug and Sub – stance Abuse Committee at Kwekwe District Hospital, chaired by Fortune Mupungu, District Development…
AUTHORITIES have begun consultations with key stakeholders as the country seeks a viable roadmap towards establishing the Zim dollar as the sole local currency. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, the deputy minister of Finance, David Mnangagwa, said these consultations would not affect the current local use of the United States dollar — which has been…
THE government says it has with immediate effect banned street vending in Harare’s central business district (CBD) as authorities intensify the fight against the spread of cholera across the country. This comes as of Monday, Zimbabwe had recorded 7 267 suspected cholera cases, 1 218 confirmed cases, 6 977 recoveries, 49 confirmed deaths and 143…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s sole gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), has introduced mobile gold buying units across the nation to ease the burden on small-scale miners who operate in remote areas. This was confirmed in the National Assembly on Wednesday where Mines deputy minister Polite Kambamura was responding to a question…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced State-assisted burials for the 22 people who were killed in a road accident on Tuesday evening along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road. In a statement yesterday, Mnangagwa said authorities would avail funds to assist the bereaved families. “The government will weigh in by according the victims of this horrendous crash State-assisted burial….
FORMER Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe, and his accomplices, Same Kapisoriso, Ngonidzishe Mutsvene and Joseph Taderera, were yesterday sentenced to three years in prison each. They were also ordered to pay a fine of US$12 780 per individual. The four were convicted on November 8 after they were found guilty of smuggling a tanker containing…
THERE was no reprieve after all for the latest batch of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators who were recalled from the National Assembly last week. This shattering reality for the affected 13 CCC legislators was confirmed yesterday by a resolute Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda. Responding in the august House to Chipinge South MP…
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya was yesterday fined US$5 000 by High Court judge, Justice Pisirayi Kwenda, for attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold worth approximately US$333 000 to Dubai. Rushwaya has been in remand prison since her conviction on November 1. She was arrested in 2020 at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International…
ZANU PF aspiring candidate for Mabvuku-Tafara parliamentary seat, Pedzai “Scott” Sakupwanya, has exhorted his rival in next month’s by-election, Felix Munyaradzi Kufahakutizwi,…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITER UNITED Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice President and Prime Minister arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday for a two-day exchange programme, Information minister Jenfan Muswere has confirmed. The minister was speaking at a post-Cabinet press conference where he said the UAE delegation would meet with all government ministers and their permanent secretaries and…
