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HARARE – Government is using unorthodox tactics including political intimidation to force striking doctors to abort their industrial action, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has claimed. Following recent claims by government that the industrial action which has gone for over a month now was politically motivated, ZHDA secretary-general Mthabisi Bhebhe told the Daily News…

HARARE – Beer drinkers may now need to think twice before downing the so-called wise waters. This follows the steep increase in the price of clear beer – by more than 100 percent – hours after Delta Corporation Limited was forced to reverse its decision to sell its products in hard currency. A survey by…

HARARE – A social group in Harare’s Marlborough area will host an awareness campaign on alcohol and substance abuse tomorrow. The event, to be held at St Canisius Catholic Church in Marlborough starting at 10am, has been necessitated by the need to facilitate community-level awareness, engagement and subsequently, intervention. At the event, the Marlborough Social…

HARARE – Government is urging all Zimbabweans to partake in today’s National Clean Up Day. President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared first Fridays of every month as the National Clean Up Day after the successful launch of the National Clean-Up Campaign under the theme Zero Tolerance to Litter-My Environment, My Pride in December last year. Today’s event…

HARARE – Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old. Nurses in the country’s public hospitals as well as their counterparts in the education sectors downed their tools yesterday to force…

HARARE – The bond note is increasingly suffering rejection from the corporate sector after Delta Corporation Limited went public on Wednesday saying it will be selling its products in hard currency. Delta said the move was aimed at sustaining its operations in the wake of serious shortages of foreign currency. Analysts told the Daily News…

HARARE – Nelson Chamisa’s opposition MDC has called for an inquiry into an Alouette III helicopter that was forced into crash landing in the Mchakazi area in Gutu Central this week. The helicopter crash-landed near Ranga School after it developed a fault while airborne. According to State TV, the chopper was travelling to Gutu from…

HARARE – The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) is prepared to provide assistance to the general population in the event of impending heavy rains as forecast by the Meteorological Services Department. In an interview the CPU director, Nathan Nkomo, yesterday said the department — which is housed under the Local Government ministry — had ready food…

HARARE – A South Africa-based Harare woman yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts on charges of smuggling drugs with a street value of $27 018 and is to be sentenced today. Appearing before magistrate Learnmore Mapiya, Judith Munemo, 33, pleaded guilty to the charge of contravening section 3(1) of the Medicines and Allied Substances…

HARARE – Harare residents have warned that the water-rationing regime mulled by the city will further plunge the capital city into a disease outbreak era. Community Water Alliance national coordinator Hildaberta Rwambiwa told the Daily News that they had warned council on the need to protect the city’s catchment areas but to no avail. Rwambiwa’s…