MASS public transporter, the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) is seeking to purchase a total of 550 buses, including 50 electric buses, as it seeks to boost the country’s public transport. Zupco operates both urban, rural and cross-border routes. In a tender flighted by Zupco over the weekend, the State-owned company said it is seeking…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over the mushrooming of illegal allocations of over 500 vending bays at the multi-million-dollar Egodini Mall by unauthorised persons. In a statement yesterday, BCC town clerk Christopher Dube said the vending bays would only be allocated to people on the council’s waiting list. “It has come to…
ZIMBABWE is set to host the inaugural World Tobacco Africa Conference in May this year at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) with hundreds of international tobacco dealers expected to attend the event. World Tobacco Africa is owned by Quartz Business Events, who are organisers of the largest network of tobacco-related exhibitions and conferences in…
THE government needs to do much more this year to stabilise the country’s economy and to lift the lives of poor citizens, Zimbabweans say. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, various stakeholder representatives also hoped for less toxic politics and greater national focus on the economy in 2024. The spokesperson of the National Consumer Rights…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on all citizens to unite in a bid to develop the nation this year. Speaking yesterday at a national thanksgiving and dedication service in Bulawayo yesterday, he said the prayer service had provided a platform to foster national unity. “We thank God for the rains, peace and progress which has…
Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES will relocate the 27 families from Harare’s Budiriro high density suburb who were badly affected by the recent floods. This follows last week’s heavy rains in most parts of the country, which killed one person in the capital and damaged key infrastructure. Speaking during a tour of Budiriro yesterday,…
By Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE recorded a total of over 7 000 cattle deaths between October and December last year, due to dry conditions, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET), has confirmed. In its latest situational report on Zimbabwe, it said the worst affected province was Matabeleland South which recorded over 4…
THE country’s trade deficit for November last year grew by 107.2 percent to US$146 million according to external trade statistics released by…
POLICE are on the hunt for seven suspected land barons in Mashonaland East Province after they illegally parcelled out large tracts of state land to desperate would be farmers in Beatrice and Chivhu districts. This comes after the government and the ruling Zanu PF recently warned the public against buying land for residential and farming…
WITH small-scale gold miners continuing to produce most of the precious metal delivered to authorities, major industry value chain player, Betterbrands, plans…
