THE Zimbabwe Council for Churches (ZCC) says it has rescued over 13 800 citizens across the country through its food and nutritional assistance, as part of its poverty security alleviation initiative. In its 2022 annual report released yesterday, the ZCC said the macroeconomic situation in the country remained volatile resulting in limited accessibility to food…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has engaged local residents and businesses to assist with vehicles for its polio vaccination campaign, which starts tomorrow. In a statement yesterday, the BCC town clerk, Christopher Dube, said the council needed to hire at least 103 vehicles for the free vaccination programme. “The City of Bulawayo is inviting individuals…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says the youth comprise the highest proportion of new prisoners across the country’s prisons. In its 2023 second quarter prison admissions and discharge statistics, the agency indicated that most of the new inmates, who had not completed any level of education, were in jail for theft, as[1]sault, burglary and…
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has implored the government to consult extensively before it crafts and introduces new policies, as this will ensure the support and growth of the country’s economy. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the ZNCC national vice president, Charlton Chimbira, said extensive research consultations had to be carried out…
THE ministry of Finance has called on industry and the government to unite in coming up with legislation and policies aimed at sustaining the country’s pension funds. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Associations of Pension Funds (ZAPF) conference in Bulawayo on Friday, deputy minister of Finance Kuda Mnangagwa told delegates that stakeholders should assist in coming…
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed a women stakeholder engagement last week in Bulawayo with some female politicians breaking down into tears as they agonisingly narrated how they had endured a plethora of grim obstacles in their political journeys where men have dominated the hard-nosed political domain. So disturbing was the situation that the organisers found it…
THE government has appealed to stakeholders to collaborate and come up with measures to curb veld fires in the city of Bulawayo. This comes at a time when the second-largest city has witnessed a surge in the number of fire incidents, which have seen various properties being destroyed.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday while handing…
FRESH confusion has hit the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after a well-known opposition figure claiming to be the party’s interim secretary-general sought to recall 15 parliamentarians and 17 councillors. Sengezo Tshabangu — who was associated with the MDC, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and lately the CCC itself — wrote to the Speaker of…
BULAWAYO City Council is restricting its services to bad debtors in a bid to recover nearly $300 billion owed by residents, companies and the government. Mayor David Coltart said yesterday that the non-payment of bills was compromising service delivery in the city, which is battling myriad challenges — including dire water shortages. “The city will…
NEARLY two million children in Zimbabwe, out of three million vulnerable citizens, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the United Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has said. In its latest report, the United Nations (UN) agency also appealed for US$32.8 million to meet the requirements of vulnerable citizens. “Unicef is appealing for US$32.8 million to…
