Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw Relatives of patients admitted at Sally Mugabe Hospital in Harare have expressed anxiety about their inability to visit their loved ones because the hospital is turning away visitors not vaccinated. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, unvaccinated people at the facility’s visitors’ entrance trying to negotiate their way to see their relatives said…
THREE teenagers from Harare have been jailed for an effective 10 years for stealing electricity cables worth US$450 in the central business district. The trio, Richard Musunda, 18, Tatenda Nyakura, 18, and Honest Warambwa, 19, appeared before the Harare magistrate’s court recently. They were facing allegations of cutting, damaging, destroying and interfering with apparatus for…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political leaders to settle their differences in the interests of the country and its citizens. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa also said the country still had enough time to hold needed political dialogue ahead of this year’s crunch national…
AUTHORITIES say the country requires at least US$192 million to help communities which were badly affected by last week’s floods. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Local Government, Gabriel Masvora, said the money was needed urgently due to the persisting rains which were pounding many parts of the country….
By Rutendo Ngara THE opening of this year’s tobacco marketing season has been pushed forward to the end of February as a high number of farmers are ready to deliver the golden leaf to the auction floors, the Tobacco Marketing Industry Board (TIMB) confirms. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, TIMB spokesperson Chelesani Tsarwe said…
ELEVEN murder cases were recorded by the police in one week across the country, with most of the cases perpetrated by suspected close family members. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the law enforcement agency was “deeply concerned” by the increase in murders over the past seven days. “The police in Harare are investigating circumstances surrounding…
By Rutendo Ngara OVER 60 000 people are occupying land illegally across the country as the number of fresh farm invasions continues to rise, the ministry of Agriculture has revealed. This comes as the government says 270 000 Zimbabweans, both locally and those in the diaspora, were on the land waiting list having made formal…
ECOCASH, Zimbabwe’s largest mobile money platform, has slashed its US dollar transfer charges following the government’s reduction of the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT) to two percent, down from four percent effective from January 1 this year. The development means EcoCash’s customers now enjoy lower tariffs when transacting on its platform. EcoCash US dollar transfers…
THE government has reiterated that this year’s national elections will proceed as scheduled because the law has no provisions which allow for the postponement of the crunch harmonised polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi emphasised that the government had no plans “whatsoever” to postpone the elections, adding that relevant ministries…
By Rumbidzai Ngwenya POLICE have vowed to engender order at one of the country’s significant gold mines — Redwing in Manicaland —…

