HARARE – The Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPAZ) has threatened to shut down unregistered health institutions, giving them up to March 1, to regularise their operations. HPAZ said it is an offence to operate an unregistered health facility under the Health Professions Act. “From March 1, 2018, health institutions found operating without renewing their…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has started a public consultation on the draft smart water meter by-laws and invited the public to give feedback on the draft law. In a notice by the acting town clerk Hosea Chisango, the by-laws can be viewed at Rowan Martin building and all other HCC offices. The new…
HARARE – The Noah Manyika-led Build Zimbabwe Alliance has announced the appointment of William Pilbrough to be the party’s vice president as the country hurtles towards the harmonised elections scheduled for July, this year. Speaking at a press conference held yesterday at Sapes Trust, Manyika said the appointment of Pilbrough, symbolises the death of racism…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has said the government cannot charge him with corruption over alleged loses incurred during the 2013 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly because the property belonged to the international body. Mzembi, 54, is jointly charged with Tourism and Hospitality ministry consultant Aaron Dzingira Mushoriwa, 62, and…
HARARE – Government has abandoned the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) drive as previously adopted by the regime of former president Robert Mugabe. Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development minister Amon Murwira issued a statement yesterday to the effect that funding for prospective “A” Level students looking to take up science subjects…
HARARE – Parliament has summoned Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and other high-ranking bureaucrats who served under former president Robert Mugabe’s administration as the legislative assembly continues to seek answers to the controversy surrounding the missing diamond revenue estimated at a staggering $15 billion. See today’s Daily News for more.
HARARE – The MDC crisis deepened yesterday when one of the vice presidents — Elias Mudzuri who was on Monday barred from entering the party’s headquarters by angry party youths — snubbed a crucial meeting called to try and heal the rift threatening to split the country’s largest opposition party. Mudzuri said the meeting, which…
HARARE – The United States is partnering with 350 000 Zimbabwean farmers and other local experts to stop the spread of the fall armyworm. The caterpillar is native to North and South America, though it has already spread to other parts of Africa including Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique and Democratic Republic of…
HARARE – Parliament has summoned Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and other high-ranking bureaucrats who served under former president Robert Mugabe’s administration as the legislative assembly continues to seek answers to the controversy surrounding the missing diamond revenue estimated at a staggering $15 billion. The Daily News can report that Mpofu, who was the minister…
BULAWAYO – With a few months to go before the crunch harmonised elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has increasingly been under pressure to clear his name on the internationally-condemned Gukurahundi atrocities. His critics, particularly the civic society and opposition political parties, have taken advantage of his lack of “arrogance” in dealing with the emotive matter, like…
