MINISTER of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, has downplayed the recent attack on him by Bulawayo councillors over developmental projects he is carrying out in Cowdray Park, saying he enjoyed good relations with council management. Bulawayo councillors last month took a dig at Ncube, who is an aspiring parliamentary candidate for Cowdray Park constituency, for fixing roads…
ALL six Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring senatorial candidates for Bulawayo yesterday afternoon failed to file their nomination papers until the close of the nomination court sitting at the Tredgold Magistrates’ Court. A lawyer engaged by the candidates and CCC provincial official Tsepiso Mpofu were late yesterday evening making frantic efforts to engage the…
FOOD insecurity levels in local urban areas have decreased this year by 13 percent as a result of government strategies, a report released this week by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVac) reveals. According to the report, the measures and strategies being implemented have had positive outcomes for urban households’ food security situation. “The food…
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a Northend woman, Priscilla Muchape, who allegedly assaulted her six-year-old stepdaughter to death last month after she refused to wake up during the night and relieve herself. This comes after police arrested the father, David Zhou, on allegations of trying to cover up for Muchape’s actions and…
AT LEAST 85 percent of the 57 districts in the nation lack high quality public health facilities, endangering the lives of most people who seek their services. This is according to research by the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd). The research released on Monday and titled “Social service delivery”, appealed to the government…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has called on the government and relevant stakeholders to increase children’s access to information and communication technologies in order to close the digital gap. In a statement yesterday, ZGC, to commemorate the Day of the African Child, which was running under the theme; The Rights of the Child in the…
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested three security guards for allegedly sodomising a 23-year-old man from the Nguboyenja suburb, whom they accused of stealing a radio speaker from Zanu PF provincial offices, Davies Hall. Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube yesterday told the Daily News that last Tuesday, Philisani Khumalo, Shelton Luphahla and another suspect only identified…
POLICE in Maphisa, Matabeleland South Province, have launched a manhunt for five suspects who allegedly teamed up to murder a man they accused of being in a relationship with a woman they found him walking with. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Matabeleland South police spokesperson Thandolwenkosi Moyo said the victim died after being severely…
GOVERNMENT says it is targeting reducing mother-to-child HIV infections to five percent, after the infections rose to eight percent due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the director of the Aids and Tuberculosis Programme in the ministry of Health, Owen Mugurungi, said while…
THE Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) has expressed concern over the country’s youth shunning farming despite rolling out programmes specifically targeted at them in rural areas. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Arda chairperson Ivan Craig said while they were doing well in providing irrigation systems for all groups of people, youth were being…
