HARARE – The engagement of external debt collection services by Chitungwiza municipality which claims to be owed about $60 million by residents and business combined is against the wishes of many ratepayers, council budget consultative meetings showed. The Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural Residents Association (Camera) said: “We also implore the council to consider the harsh…
HARARE – Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (in Dutch), or Anti-Personnel Landmines Detection Product Development (Apopo) — the charity famed for its use of specially-trained rats in landmine and tuberculosis detection — will begin clearing landmines in Zimbabwe’s largest wildlife conservation area and important elephant migration area, coinciding with new beginnings in the country. Apopo has…
HARARE – With the forced resignation of former president Robert Mugabe, the citizens of Zimbabwe have a unique opportunity to break with the past and create a stable, peaceful, democratic, prosperous and globally competitive nation, former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara has said. A former student leader who is recognised as one of Africa’s most…
HARARE – Civil society organisations and family members of abducted political activist Itai Dzamara have demanded that the new President Emmerson Mnangagwa do everything in his power to bring him back to his family dead or alive. Dzamara was abducted by five unidentified men in March 2015 and bundled into an unmarked truck near his…
HARARE – Companies and aid agencies wishing to drill boreholes must first get approval from council in a move aimed at avoiding usage of contaminated drinking water. Harare City Council health services director Prosper Chonzi told the Daily News yesterday that it was a measure aimed at curbing typhoid. Typhoid blood test Chonzi’s remarks come…
HARARE – Five police officers who brutally assaulted a civilian, gouging out his eye in the process, have been jailed for three years. Livingstone Zvimba, Tendai Masungambira, Sunday Nyaude, Khululekani Dale, Evans Mashonganyika — all members of the Police Reaction Group — were convicted of assault by Harare magistrate Farai Gwitima. They were sentenced to…
HARARE – Parliamentary committee on Public Accounts yesterday humbled and embarrassed officials from the Higher Education ministry led by their permanent secretary, Francis Gudyanga, after they came ill-prepared for a hearing. As a result the committee’s sitting has been deferred to December 4. The ministry failed to articulate issues surrounding a damning audit report by…
BULAWAYO – Veteran politician — Callistus Ndlovu who was booted out from the provincial executive for undermining the authority of former first lady Grace Mugabe in 2014 — has bounced back to assume his Bulawayo chairmanship post following a recent shake-up in Zanu PF. This follows the stunning sacking of Mugabe and his wife from…
HARARE – Health stakeholders have been saddened by the untimely death of former Health minister and health advisor to the President and Cabinet Timothy Stamps who succumbed to lung infection on Sunday. Those who spoke to the Daily News said Stamps, who died at 81, had played a crucial role in promoting public health in…
HARARE – Gokwe Nembudziya MP and renowned President Emmerson Mnangagwa key ally during his persecution by the Generation 40 (G40) faction — Justice Mayor Wadyajena — has slammed Zanu PF officials and opportunists who are stampeding each other to get the new leader’s attention. This comes as Mnangagwa is yet to announce his eagerly-awaited Cabinet…
