Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) came under fire yesterday after hordes of residents stormed its offices and demanded the delivery of residential stands they purchased nearly a decade ago, but never delivered. The visibly angry placard-waving residents marched, sang and danced as they demanded the city fathers to provide an explanation over…
Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Primary and Secondary Education has implored the government to prioritise funding for Early Childhood Development (ECD) education to enhance the country’s human capital development. Speaking at a virtual Transnational Sadc parliamentary forum yesterday, chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Primary and Secondary Education, Tonderai Moyo, said…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa THE government yesterday called upon citizens to get vaccinated after it was revealed that Covid-19 vaccines currently in stock are set to start expiring from the middle of next year. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the national Covid-19 response chief coordinator in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office, Agnes Mahomva, said the government…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO regional court has withdrawn rape charges against the father of a nine-yearold Tsholotsho girl in Matabeleland North Province who became pregnant early this year and later gave birth. The 27-year-old father, whose name is withheld to protect the juvenile, appeared before regional magistrate Mark Dzira yesterday. He was facing rape…
By Brendon Josphat THE MDC’s congress in Harare yesterday descended into a complete farce, amid ugly commotion and boycotts of the get-together by some party notables. In the process, the gathering mirrored the party’s equally chaotic December 2020 extra-ordinary congress — which was marred by violence and allegations of rigging Among those who boycotted yesterday’s…
Regis Chingawo chingawor@dailynews.co.zw THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called for the sacking of staff at the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) over incessant examination leakages that have put the credibility of the institution into question. This comes as Zimsec has told Parliament that 588 candidates were caught cheating in this year’s examinations…
Nyasha Dube duben@dailynews.co.zw HWANGE Coal Gasification Company (HCGC), a subsidiary of Hwange Colliery Company (HCCL), faces reconstruction after the High Court denied its urgent application to overturn Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi’s decision to place it under reconstruction. According to court documents, in October 2018, the government announced that it had issued a reconstruction order for…
Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.zw AS SCHOOLS and parents prepare for the 2023 school calendar, the government has reminded all institutions providing primary and secondary education that school fee adjustments must be approved by the ministry. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, ministry of Education spokesperson Taungana Ndoro said both public and private schools in the country were bound…
Hazel Marimbiza EIGHT people died over the weekend in different road traffic accidents across the country amid fears that the festive season could turn out to be bloody. Four people have died and five others were seriously injured in a road accident that occurred along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway when a Toyota Quest vehicle collided with…
THE Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA) has disbursed 2.5 million litres of diesel to support farmers this season as the country targets a bumper harvest to ensure national food security. This development comes as the country is experienced more than 15 hours of load shedding which is threatening to disrupt farming as farmers rely heavily on electricity…
