HARARE – Cleric Phillip Mugadza is refusing to settle a $15 medical bill incurred when he was treated at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (Parirenyatwa), demanding that President Robert Mugabe must foot the expense. The man of cloth — who made headlines after prophesying that 93-year-old Mugabe will die on October 17 this year — was…
BULAWAYO – The High Court here has slashed a 40-year jail term for an HIV-positive Gokwe man who raped and infected his 11-year-old niece with a sexually transmitted disease. The 31-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, raped his brother’s daughter on four different occasions in 2015. He will now serve…
HARARE – Government has raised $35 million to fix roads and bridges damaged by floods. Senior principal director in the Office of the President and Cabinet Ozias Hove said the funds were raised through the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme. This comes after Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere declared Harare’s roads a state of disaster as…
HARARE – Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri has found that Harare City Council (HCC) did not account for $208 million of public funds in the 2012 financial year. In her 2015 local authorities report tabled in the National Assembly recently, Chiri reported that the majority of councils’ audited financials were not up to date, with HCC…
HARARE – The Health ministry has detected insecticide-resistant mosquitoes in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, raising concern that malaria could become difficult to control. This comes as government recently issued a malaria alert after a total of 154 malaria cases were reported throughout the country as of March 26, 2017. Giving oral evidence to Parliament’s Health portfolio…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s severe cash crisis is worsening, forcing banks to reduce further their daily withdrawal limits — in addition to suspending dispensing money through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). This prompted analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday to say that this confirmed that the local economy was dying and “hurtling towards total collapse”….
HARARE – Feathers are set to fly at today’s Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare, after the party’s volatile Masvingo province defied President Robert Mugabe’s appeal for calm yesterday — demonstrating against under-fire national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. The massive protest also targeted regional party bigwigs who are perceived to belong to the Generation 40 (G40)…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has pleaded with warring Zanu PF bigwigs to stop staging demonstrations against each other and ventilating their grievances through State media which he accused of acting like the opposition. Mugabe said this after angry Zanu PF supporters held demonstrations in Bindura and in Gweru yesterday, where they pushed for the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe was abuzz yesterday after President Robert Mugabe was given a “special massage chair” by his ministers, as part of gifts to mark his 93rd birthday celebrations. The gift immediately raised eyebrows — sparking both mirth and frenzied debate, especially on social media, about its “meaning” and symbolism in light of Mugabe’s advanced…
HARARE – Volunteer workers are up in arms with the Harare City Council (HCC), accusing the local authority of giving them empty job promises. During a tour of Mbare last week, hundreds of the volunteer community anti-litter monitors complained that council has been lying to them for more than four years. The monitors, who volunteer…
