HARARE mayor, Jacob Mafume, has warned that the council will intensify a clampdown on illegal settlers and on those who are constructing homes or industrial stands on wetlands starting next year. Mafume warned home buyers yesterday in an interview with the Daily News not to rush into purchasing residential properties without first verifying their authenticity with the…
A FORMER Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) ordinance director, Colonel Shakeman Terrence Chizengwe, has had his application seeking his retirement benefits dismissed at the High Court. Chizengwe retired from the army early this year but left empty-handed as punishment for declining to go through a disciplinary hearing. Allegations raised against the former senior soldier were highly…
Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO THE Zimbabwe Red Cross says it has, through its Restoring Family Links (RFL) initiative, put in place adequate measures to assist migrants seeking to reconnect with their relatives, since the number of deported citizens is significantly rising this festive season. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Red Cross secretary general Elias Hwenga…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), in partnership with African Parks, is renovating the Matusadonha National Park in Kariba, Mashonaland West province, at a cost of US$6 million. The renovations aim to transform the national park into a more popular tourist attracting resort. African Parks is a non-profit conservation organization…
Hazel Marimbiza THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has warned citizens against the use of skin lightening products which it said were now a common sight in most beauty shops in the country. In a statement at the weekend, MCAZ said they were concerned that the illegal products were now being easily accessed by…
By Hazel Marimbiza THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has urged the government to further decentralise its offices to the country’s 10 provinces saying this will ensure human rights services are easily accessible to all citizens. Speaking at a human rights event in Bulawayo at the weekend, ZHRC chairperson Elasto Mugwadi said while the government…
THE use of contraceptives has prevented more than three million unintended pregnancies, nearly a million unsafe abortions, and over 12 000 maternal deaths in Zimbabwe over the last five years, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Speaking during the launch of the National Family Planning Strategy 2022–2026 and family planning 2030 commitments in…
AS I travelled through the wooded mountainous landscape of Chimanimani,on my first visit as World Bank Country Director for Zimbabwe, I was confronted with a landscape scarred by landslides that occurred during the 2019 Cyclone Idai. These scars were a stark reminder of the devastation that befell communities here and the resulting loss of lives,…
BY YVONNE NCUBE THE government has given the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) the green light to venture into a joint solar system project to produce its own electricity in order to enable the local authority to address the water woes that have been bedevilling it and have been exacerbated by rolling power cuts. Speaking during…
BY REGIS CHINGAWO RESIDENTS associations across the country have expressed concern over declining service delivery standards in 2022 and called for an overhaul in the manner in which the councils are being administered. Addressing journalists in Harare on Friday on the state of service delivery by local authorities for this year, Zimbabwe National Organisation of…
