HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Easter road death toll has risen to 32, from the 21 fatalities recorded the previous day, police said yesterday. Today is a critical day as many families return home from the long weekend. “Further to 10 deaths recorded as of yesterday (Saturday), 11 people died in eight separate fatal road traffic accidents…
BULAWAYO – Former first lady Grace Mugabe is defying a court order to vacate Smithfield Farm, which she claims has been invaded by artisanal miners who are suspected to be Zanu PF youths, Home Affairs and Culture minister Obert Mpofu said yesterday. Mpofu told a news conference here that police have also established that there…
HARARE – Chances of opposition political parties forming a grand coalition to battle with Zanu PF at the forthcoming polls are narrowing to zero with more and more disjointed alliances emerging each day, the Daily News can report. While opposition leaders concur that the only way to end Zanu PF’s rule is through a combined…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s oldest institute of higher learning, the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), which is hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons, particularly the manner in which former first lady Grace Mugabe was awarded her PhD degree, has dropped in its rankings. According to uniRank, formerly known as International Colleges and Universities, which is a…
HARARE – Civil society organisations have called upon government to ratify and domesticate the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) ahead of the 2018 elections. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Charter on March 21, on the side-lines of the extra-ordinary summit of the African Union (AU) held in Kigali, Rwanda….
HARARE – Harare and Parirenyatwa hospitals have stopped taking in new patients due to the on-going doctor’s strike. In a March 29 letter to the hospitals’ clinical directors, consultants (senior doctors) representative committee said they could not “manage and serve new patients”. [GoogleAd] “The consultants have met today (29 March 2018) and have noted that…
HARARE – Marondera municipality has issued an enforcement order warning illegal occupants of its land to demolish their structures and vacate before the local authority moves in next month. According to the order by the local authority’s town clerk Josiah Musuwo, the land that has been illegally occupied is Lendyview Park. The enforcement order covers…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) plans to install 50 000 prepaid water meters in areas that receive uninterrupted water supply. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme said all modalities for the installation had been finalised. [GoogleAd] “All the necessary approvals are now available and implementation modalities are being…
HARARE – Eleven independent candidates aspiring to be councillors — including popular fierce critic of ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Evan Mawarire — yesterday launched a joint campaign themed People’s Own Voice (Povo). The grouping’s spokesperson, Mawarire, said it was time citizens concerned about Harare’s well-being took charge. Povo’s launch comes amid emergence of independent…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest business lobby group, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), is pressing government to clear 40 of its members who were “wrongly” listed as money externalisers by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The body has scheduled a meeting with central bank governor, John Mangudya, during this Easter holiday. This comes as the Confederation’s sister…
