THE Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday said they are engaging the police to investigate and arrest space barons who are allegedly swindling US$120 000 per month from thousands of informal traders at the popular Glen View 8 manufacturing complex. For years, operations at the complex have been hampered by repeated fire outbreaks, with the latest…
PARLIAMENT says it will follow the country’s Constitution with regards to this week’s surprise bid to recall 15 legislators belonging to the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). This comes as fresh confusion has hit the CCC after a well-known opposition fi gure claiming to be the party’s interim secretary-general, Sengezo Tshabangu, wrote to National Assembly…
Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government has no capacity to monitor and sanction its teachers who conduct extra lessons for a fee away from the gaze of authorities. So says Education minister Torerai Moyo, who told the Daily News yesterday that authorities would continue to take action against teachers who conducted extra lessons for learners on…
Farai MabezaSENIOR STAFF WRITER PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister July Moyo says Zimbabwe’s occupational disabling injuries and fatalities recorded over the past five years have not been encouraging. Moyo made the remarks as he officially opened the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)’s 60th national conference on safety at work in Victoria Falls on…
Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zw SENIOR health authorities in Bulawayo have applauded the government and World Bank’s results-based financing (RBF) programme for its contributions to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. The aim of the RBF programme is to attain the global target of eliminating HIV/AIDS by 2030 and Zimbabwe is partnering with the World Health…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE United Kingdom’s new ambassador to Zimbabwe, Peter Vowles, says he will use his knowledge and experience of the country to further improve relations between Harare and London. Vowles, who replaced Melanie Robinson, lived in Zimbabwe in the 1990s and taught at several schools in the country. He has a…
By Brandon Josphat josphatb@dailynews.co.zw OLD Mutual, in partnership with Zimbabwe’s number one business publication, The Financial Gazette, will hold this year’s Top…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed High Court Judge, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, as the new prosecutor general (PG). Matanda-Moyo, who was the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) since May 2019, is taking over from Nelson Mutsonziwa, who held the position in an acting capacity. In a statement yesterday, Chief Secretary to President and Cabinet…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) says, with the help of the police, it has confiscated banned incandescent light bulbs with a total capacity of 18.35 megawatts (MW), while over 1 600 vendors, retailers, manufacturers and distributors have been arrested for selling the banned bulbs. In 2017, the regulatory authority enforced a…
By Rutendo Ngara THE government has expressed concern about farmers who receive cotton inputs and divert them to maize farming, instead saying this is killing the growth of the sector. Speaking to the Daily News in Harare yesterday, Agricultural Rural Development Services (ARDS) chief director Obert Jiri, on the sidelines of World Cotton Day commemorations,…
