By Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are crafting a policy to test suspected civil servants, public transport drivers, and suspected drug users as part of efforts to fight the rise in drug and substance abuse. This was said yesterday in Harare by the deputy minister of Health, Sleiman Kwidini, after the government received drug testing equipment…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has urged residents in flood-prone areas to open their weep holes or risk facing legal action as the local authority seeks to push residents to ensure that storm-water drains naturally. This comes as some residents have defiantly refused to open their weep holes, in a development that has seen some…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw OPPOSITION leaders have renewed their bid for national dialogue to help mitigate the country’s escalating economic challenges which have recently seen some major businesses shutting down or downsizing their operations. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — they said yesterday that the nation’s economic hardships manifested Zimbabwe’s…
Ashley Moyo SENIOR LIFESTYLE WRITER moyoa@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s leading independent national commercial television station, 3Ktv, is continuing to set the pace for…
Masimba Makwembere makwemberemv@dailynews.co.zw A DEVASTATING road traffic accident that claimed the lives of 24 people yesterday along the Beitbridge-Masvingo highway near the Lutumba tollgate, has been declared a national disaster by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The horror crash came as the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe recently revealed that a staggering average of five people die…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw WANTED war veteran and Zanu PF central committee member, Blessing Geza, yesterday failed to turn up at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts where he is the complainant in a US$1,3 million fraud charge. Geza is reportedly on the run over four counts which, according to the police, include incitement to…
Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts to be the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) secretary general, has blocked the party’s MPs from attending a public lecture by the outfit’s leader Welshman Ncube as the infighting in the party rages on. This comes as Ncube organised the Morgan Tsvangirai Memorial Lecture on Saturday in…
Masimba Makwembere makwemberemv@dailynews.co.zw LEADING retail outlet, TM Pick n Pay, is in a yearround cancer awareness drive aimed at educating people on the various types of cancers. In a response to questions for the Daily News yesterday, TM Pick n Pay said they were currently running a promotion with other stakeholders and the earnings would…
Stella Madzivanyika STAFF WRITER madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT yesterday said the country’s fish production during 2023/2024 season decreased by 27 percent due to the effects of the El Nino-induced drought and over fishing. In an interview with the Daily News, Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Department (Fard) director Milton Makumbe said the country had witnessed overfishing, especially for…
STAFF WRITER muronzereyiB@dailynews.co.zw ONE of the country’s leading retail outlets, OK Zimbabwe, has laid bare before Parliament the challenges, including a difficult economic environment, it is facing leading to the closure of some of its branches. This comes as businesses say it is crucial that authorities allow the Zimbabwean dollar to trade freely against the…
