By Ketty Nyoni ZIMBABWE recorded at least 1 950 cases of malaria, including six deaths, in the first week of 2023, with Mashonaland Central having the highest number of infections. The ministry of Health also noted 6 839 cases of diarrhoea and eight fatalities in the country during the same period. According to a weekly…
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, says authorities are between a rock and a hard place as they map the way forward in the wake of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) draft delimitation report. Speaking last night on national television station 3Ktv’s widely-followed current affairs programme, Vantage, the free-spirited Mliswa also said it was crucial that…
ZESA is still not ready to switch on its new 300 megawatt generator in Hwange, as the under pressure power utility takes a cautious approach to bringing the long-awaited Unit 7 into operation. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, deputy Energy minister Magna Mudyiwa said as a result, authorities had increased electricity imports from the…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday said they have cleared the foreign currency allotment backlog at its auction trading system. This comes as the seemingly jinxed local currency has now gone way past the $1 000 mark against the much-coveted greenback on the black market.In a statement, RBZ governor John Mangudya said the move…
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday dismissed an urgent application filed by Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) chairperson Tonderai Chidawa challenging the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec’s preliminary delimitation report, ruling that his case was not a pressing matter. His ConCourt application comes after he claimed Parliament ignored a letter that his lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, wrote to…
AUTHORITIES yesterday suspended the operating licences of two bus operators, Zebra Kiss and Rimbi Travel and Tours, after a road traffic accident that occurred along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway, Mashonaland East, on Tuesday, leading to the death of a passenger and injuring scores. Transport minister Felix Mhona said in a statement that the suspensions were with…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has introduced a “block management system” where it will embark on a door-to-door programme to ensure that all businesses comply with the tax payment and registration system. In a statement yesterday, Zimra said the door-to-door tax collection, which began early this month, would be carried out at all business premises…
SOME legislators have added their voices to calls to postpone this year’s national polls, saying this would allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to fix the flaws in its draft delimitation report, while also allowing the country to recover from Covid’s effects. This comes after the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently joined some opposition…
PARLIAMENT yesterday adopted its ad hoc committee report on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) preliminary delimitation report following a two-day heated debate that saw MPs demanding that the electoral body correct flaws raised by the legislators. The ad hoc committee report would be handed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa today at State House before he transmitted…
POLICE Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga, warned yesterday that law enforcement agents would not hesitate to shoot to kill violent criminals engaging in murders and armed robberies around the country. The emotional Matanga said this in Harare, at the funeral wake of Hwedza Police Station officer-in-charge, Inspector Maxwell Hove, 43 — who was allegedly shot and killed…
