STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw AT LEAST 3 320 pregnant girls dropped out of both secondary and primary schools in 2024 across the country, according to the deputy minister of Education, Angeline Gata. This marks a decline from 4 557 girls who left school due to pregnancy in 2023. Gata told the National Assembly on Wednesday that…

LEGISLATORS have now formally tabled a motion in the Senate pressing for the urgent mitigation of the country’s worsening public health crisis. This comes as lawmakers are also pushing for the health emergency to be declared a national disaster, to spur the mobilisation of resources to ease the untenable situation. Debating a motion on the…

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Jobst von Kirchmann, says reforms being implemented by the government in various sectors will attract foreign direct investment and boost the country’s economy. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the first-ever European Union-Zimbabwe Business Forum, Kirchmann hailed the country’s reform process saying it would boost agriculture exports and…

POLICE are set to procure speed monitoring machines as it battles to tame lawlessness on the country’s roads which has led to an increase in fatal traffic accidents. This comes as the Police Commissioner General, Stephen Mutamba, has directed his officers to modify their checkpoint procedures in a bid to tame the country’s traffic jungle….

ENERGY minister July Moyo has accused former Zesa employees of orchestrating a wave of vandalism targeting the power utility’s infrastructure across the country. This comes as blackouts have returned with some parts of the country going for months without power supplies. It also comes as the government said that vandalism had destroyed at least 6…

STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE deputy minister of Finance, David Mnangagwa, says the government is introducing measures to ensure tax compliance and widen the tax base to promote local currency. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Mnangagwa said they were building a tax infrastructure that compels everyone to settle their obligations. “The first port of…

PARLIAMENT has hit out at truant Cabinet ministers for hampering the speedy passing of Bills. This comes as the Medical Services Amendment, Persons with Disabilities, Mines and Minerals and Parks and Wildlife Amendment Bills and several others before Parliament are lying idle without being processed. Raising a point of national interest in the National Assembly…