PEOPLE living outside the country will be counted in the 2022 national census as the government strives to come up with a near-accurate population of the country, the Daily News can reveal. This was revealed at the launch of the 2022 Zimbabwe Population and Housing Census Publicity and Advocacy Strategy at a local hotel in…
HARARE residents will continue to suffer as the water crisis in the capital continues to deepen. Most suburbs in the capital have gone for weeks without tap water while others have gone for months. “The persisting water crisis in Harare is causing suffering to residents. They are now being forced to drink, and wash less…
WHILE Zimbabwe needs 350 more base stations, investors are not getting funding to implement the projects, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete has said. Machengete told the parliamentary portfolio committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT) on Monday: “We would want to cover each corner of the country and from the…
THIRTY-EIGHT percent of Zimbabwe’s working population is under qualified for their jobs, while 13 percent are said to be over qualified, a recent report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revealed. A survey of 114 countries was carried out where Zimbabwe is among a group of low income countries with high number of people…
A THAI national who had run away from being tested for the deadly coronavirus returned to Wilkins Hospital yesterday where all the necessary tests were finally conducted, the Daily News reports. Authorities are now waiting for the results of the tests, which they have committed will be publicly communicated once they are received. This comes…
CABINET yesterday banned the slaughter and sale of cattle from regions affected by disease outbreaks. This comes amid reports that some unscrupulous individuals were selling diseased cattle to butcheries, who were in turn retailing it to unsuspecting consumers. Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri told journalists during a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare that the government had…
SPAR Zimbabwe and Bellevue Abattoir Butcheries have refuted claims that they are selling meat from cattle that will have died from anthrax and the January disease. This comes as videos were circulating on social media platforms of dead or diseased cattle being reportedly bought by meat retailers who then sell to consumers across the country,…
PARLIAMENT yesterday gave an ultimatum of Thursday next week for all legislators and ministers to declare their assets. Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda told legislators that they must comply with the country’s laws. “Two hundred and forty fours MPs have declared their assets, while 26 MPs have not declared their assets, which represents…
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a foreign national who escaped from Wilkins Hospital in Harare on Sunday, just as health officials were about to test him for the much-feared coronavirus, the Daily News reports. This comes as neighbouring South Africa yesterday announced that seven people had now been diagnosed with the lethal virus there,…
THE GRAIN Marketing Board (GMB) has been thrown into turmoil amid allegations that some board members have assumed the day-to-day running of the parastatal after usurping management’s authority. Sources close to the goings-on at GMB told the Daily News that there was disgruntlement among senior managers owing to what they referred to as interference by…
