The taps in Zimbabwe’s second-biggest city may run dry by the end of this year. Already, residents of Bulawayo have had to cope without piped water for at least five-and-a-half days a week and there’s a high risk the flow may stop completely, according to city officials. “We are reaching a catastrophic state,” David Coltart,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for the broadening of mechanisms for regional collaboration on transboundary matters affecting children. This comes as Zimbabwe is grappling with meeting the needs of children with more than 4 000 dropping out of school in 2023 out which the majority of the cases being a result of pregnancies. Speaking during…
TWO Bulawayo City Council (BCC) officials appeared before a magistrate’s court yesterday facing allegations of soliciting a US$20 000 bribe from a Chinese company in exchange for approving a land allocation for a cement mixing plant. Mpumelelo Moyo, finance committee chairperson and ward 26 councillor and Edwin Ndlovu, deputy mayor and ward 8 councillor, are…
POLICE have arrested three additional suspects who are linked to a spate of armed robbery cases that happened around Harare recently. This comes as a five-member crew of Spencer Mapfumo, Patrick Chibaba alias Mupositori , Tarwirei Madzudzu alias Mukanya, Paddington Meki and Washington Marunze was arrested in connection with three armed robberies. Police spokesperson Paul…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has implored all stakeholders to support the ZiG to the hilt in their own interest and that of the country and its economy. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, RBZ governor John Mushayavanhu also warned traders in the informal sector who are…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT THE infighting in Zanu PF’s Harare Province has turned nasty amid suspensions and counter suspensions by top executives for various reasons. This comes after a faction aligned to the provincial chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa suspended political commissar Kudakwashe Damson and nine others over misconduct allegations last Thursday. However, a day later, Damson and…
BY STELLA MADZIVANYIKA THE minister of Agriculture, Anxious Masuka, has warned urbanites against the invasion of land earmarked for agriculture without the necessary legal conversion procedures by other line ministries. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday after officiating at the Zimbabwe Online Agricultural College graduation ceremony last Friday, Masuka said land barons should desist…
BRANDON JOSPHAT Staff Writer VICE President Kembo Mohadi says the construction of health centres by the founder of Pan African Group of Referral Hospitals, Jimaya Muduvuri will improve the health service delivery in the country. Speaking during the official opening of the Auxilia Mnangagwa Clinic in Chirape Nembudziya, Midlands Province on Friday, Mohadi hailed Muduvuri…
THE Department of Civil Protection, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), police and various ministries have collaborated to intensify campaigns against flood-related deaths. This comes as the onset of rains during this cropping season has been characterised by violent storms that left a trail of destruction of over 50 schools and more than 200 houses across…
IN a historic turn of events, the 45th president of the United States of America left the White House after a humiliating…
