THERE is a likelihood international drug cartels are using Zimbabwe as a smuggling hub, according to a medical expert who testified in the case of South African cocaine smuggler Shila Khumalo yesterday. Speaking under oath, medical and forensic expert Clancy Nyamukure told the court that organised crime groups and powerful cartels were behind cocaine trafficking. …
THE government yesterday delayed the reopening of schools for the start of the second term by a further two weeks owing to the recent increase of Covid-19 new infections and deaths. Classes were scheduled to resume this coming Monday but those plans have been pushed back as the authorities fear the learning institutions could be…
THE Affirmative Action Group (AAG) is lobbying the government to reserve some business sectors in the Zimbabwean economy for locals as they seek to advance their empowerment programmes. AAG president Mike Chimombe yesterday said the authorities must make sure that all departments comply with the policy “As AAG, we want the reserved sector to be…
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has re-iterated his call for urgent and all-inclusive national dialogue — adding, crucially, that this must involve his MDC rival Nelson Chamisa, to help end the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. However, Mwonzora also pooh-poohed claims by Chamisa at the weekend that he alone held the keys to ending the…
EIGHT local car dealership proprietors have approached the High Court to stop Harare City Council (HCC) from evicting them from their premises. This comes after the HCC issued eviction notices to the companies earlier this month and ordered them to vacate the properties as they were in illegal occupation of the land. In their court…
ARMED robbers hijacked a Beitbridge-bound bus early yesterday morning before making away with over US$16 000 from the passengers in Chatsworth, Masvingo. The robbers, believed to have been six, posed as passengers on the Boundary Express bus before pulling out a gun and ordering the driver to pull over into a secluded place in Chatsworth. …
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says authorities will come down hard on armed robbers and drug peddlers as the government fights to create a safe and prosperous Zimbabwe.Speaking at the burial of the late prominent Roman Catholic cleric, Father Emmanuel Ribeiro, at the National Heroes’ Acre yesterday, Mnangagwa also said the government would leave no stone unturned…
WOMEN’S Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni says she will push the government to provide funding to make sanitary products available for free in all public toilets in a bid to eliminate period poverty. Speaking during a webinar running under the theme “Period Dignity” which was organised by the Period Company yesterday, Nyoni said women should campaign…
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he still holds the keys to President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding in turning around the country’s fitful economy and normalising Zimbabwe’s lukewarm relations with the West. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, after presidential spokesperson George Charamba said last week that Chamisa should banish any thoughts of…
HEALTH experts say although the country is not yet experiencing a third coronavirus wave, Zimbabweans should adhere to the current strict public management regulations of the pandemic to stop the cases of the virulent respiratory disease from spiking further. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the president of the Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA), Shingai…
