THE Harare City Council (HCC) will be evacuating patients from Wilkins Infectious Disease Control Hospital to make way for coronavirus (Covid-19) cases that may be recorded in the country, the city health director has said. This comes as the government on Monday and yesterday conducted a training workshop to equip health workers with skills on…
FIVE family members were struck to death by lightning in the Muzvezve area of Sanyati District on Monday while they were working in their maize field. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed the tragedy to the Daily News and underscored the importance of staying indoors whenever it is raining. “We confirm a sad incident where…
BUSINESSMAN Genius “Ginimbi” Kadungure, who is accused of fraudulently undervaluing a Bentley Continental GT that he imported from South Africa, has finally been freed on $10 000 bail. Kadungure, who was in remand prison for nearly two weeks, was yesterday freed by High Court judge Erica Ndewere. As part of his bail conditions, Kadungure was…
FARM Community Trust of Zimbabwe (FCTZ) has partnered Unicef to repair 467 water hand pumps in Mashonaland East Province’s Mudzi District. FCTZ water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) manager Barnabas Muhoma told the Daily News the project, being funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), seeks to improve access to safe water as well as…
FORMER Zanu PF youth league boss Godfrey Tsenengamu has vowed that he will never to apologise to the ruling party over the ill-fated press conference they held in Harare where they accused several local businessmen of heading cartels. This comes on the back of a statement by acting Zanu PF secretary for administration Patrick Chinamasa…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is billed to testify as one of the chief witnesses in Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board chairperson Callisto Mazorodze Jokonya’s graft trial. Jokonya is being charged with criminal abuse of office after allegedly renewing an employee’s contract without following due process. When he appeared before Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya yesterday,…
FOUR robbers armed with machetes, a pistol and an axe robbed a Sakubva couple of US$1 600, $40, a smartphone and car keys in their home in Chimera suburb. The robbers, who initially claimed to be cops, struck in the wee hours. Nhamo Mataka, 44, the victim, refused to open the door upon realising that…
FIVE armed robbers raided a Nyanga businesswoman’s home and supermarket last Friday and got away with US$1 300 and several gadgets. The robbers struck at the home of Mollen Mashonganyika, 27, at Ruwangwe Growth Point at around 0100 hours after which they descended on her supermarket after getting a paltry sum of money at her…
Government has reviewed salaries of domestic workers to $500 from $170. This was revealed by deputy Labour minister Lovemore Matuke during a question and answer session in the Senate last week while responding to a question from MDC Senator Theresa Makone. Makone had asked whether the government felt that with the current hardships being faced…
PASSENGERS have raised concern over the frequency of accidents involving public transporters, a development that claim people’s lives and left many injured. For the past two weeks, more than 10 people have been killed in separate bus accidents across the country, a development hugely attributed to poor roads and driver behaviour. “As passengers, we feel…
