BULAWAYO – Government has strained Bulawayo City Council (BCC)’s public finances and undermined an already ailing municipality after a $46 million debt write-off for ratepayers and moves to do something similar ahead of next year’s general elections. Ahead of the 2013 election that gave President Robert Mugabe election triumph, government provided 100 percent debt relief…
HARARE – The burial of the late liberation stalwart and musician Dick “Cde Chinx” Chingaira in Harare yesterday was most notable for the absence of senior Zanu PF and government officials. The 61-year-old Cde Chinx — who died in Harare last Friday after battling cancer — was interred at the Glen Forest Memorial Park. His…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is facing a serious shortage of birth control pills and government is seized with the matter to ensure the situation does not get out of hand. In short supply, particularly in the rural areas, is the Marvelon tablet — a type of hormonal oral contraceptive, commonly known as a “birth control pill…
HARARE – Government is bypassing the State Procurement Board (SPB) in its implementation of the hyped Command Agriculture initiative in violation of the law, which requires that all projects worth US$10 000 or above should go through formal tender to enable it to get the best money can buy. The Daily News can exclusively reveal…
HARARE – African Banking Corporation is foreclosing former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube’s four-bed roomed home, seized after failing to settle bad debt. This comes amid a surge in foreclosures representing a new wave of distressed property seizures triggered by the ongoing financial squeeze, analysts say, with many banks…
HARARE – Readers of the Daily News, Daily News on Sunday, the Weekend Post, the Financial Gazette and the Sunday Times in Harare and Bulawayo can now purchase copies of their favourite titles using EcoCash ta! Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — publishers of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend…
HARARE – The family of the late liberation stalwart and musician Dick “Cde Chinx” Chingaira has passed on the chance to bury him at Harare Provincial Heroes Acre — instead opting to have him interred at the Glen Forest Cemetery — with his national hero status snub by Zanu PF spilling into Parliament yesterday where…
HARARE – Allies of Saviour Kasukuwere put up a spirited defence on Wednesday to prevent the politburo from referring the embattled Zanu PF national political commissar’s case for further investigations by State security agents who are seen as more sympathetic to their rivals, the Daily News heard yesterday. Going into the eagerly-awaited indaba with their…
HARARE – Senetors are seeking what they called a “historic” increase in Health and Child Care ministry spending, but may run into immediate opposition from frugal Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa who must approve the plan. The proposed rise in the health budget comes as Chinamasa has actually slashed the health budget from $330,7 million last…
HARARE – Police are still searching for abducted human rights activist Itai Dzamara, Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni has said. Mguni told senators yesterday that the police still have no leads on Dzamara’s whereabouts. “Yes the police are still searching; they are giving us updates every month. We formed a committee consisting the police…
