BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI THE Government will put in place all the necessary measures to improve the country’s power situation, including collaborating with private players, a Cabinet minister has said. Acting Energy minister Jenfan Muswere made the remarks after the government inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Evergreen Private Limited for the construction of a 100…
BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has appealed to churches and political parties to embrace each other ahead of the 2023 elections. This comes after the country has witnessed an increase in politically-related violence cases ahead of the watershed 2023 plebiscite. Speaking during online discussion last week, ZCC acting secretary-general Gibson Botomani said…
A FORMER captain in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has been nabbed on allegations of conspiring to smuggle 31 AK47 rifles and magazines into the country. Leonard Matambo, 61, who is now employed at the Zimbabwe Defence Industries, is alleged to have written a letter to a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority manager at the Beitbridge Border Post…
FARMERS in semi-arid Zvishavane and Mberengwa districts, Midlands, are pinning their hopes on the government’s livestock revitalisation programme meant to improve their dwindling herd. This comes at a time when the government partnered platinum miner Mimosa on a livestock revitalisation programme through artificial insemination of cattle in the two districts. Breeds including Boran, Tuli and…
AT LEAST 648 people have died from measles since the disease first broke out in April this year, statistics from the ministry…
A RESIDENTIAL stands dealer has been sent to remand prison after he was arrested for allegedly selling stands to unsuspecting housing seekers in Spitzkop knowing that his agency’s contract had been terminated by the land owners. Gilbert Kanyongo, the director of Vevhu Development Marketing Company, was nabbed together with the company secretary Nomatter Rukawe after…
ZANU PF has directed its leadership to make contributions towards the party’s congress by paying various amounts depending on one’s position from District Coordinating Committee (DCC)to the politiburo. This comes as the former liberation movement is set to hold its elective congress next month in Harare. In a memo dated August 31 to all leaders,…
TRADITIONAL leaders in Zvishavane and Mberengwa say they have started engaging the government regarding food aid as their people are in need of assistance following poor harvests in the mining district. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chief Mposi of Mberengwa said he had made the proposal to the government on the matter. “We had…
Ketty Noyni HARARE City Council (HCC) has threatened to remove or take over unmaintained and dilapidated billboards in the capital saying they are a potential hazard to the public. In a notice signed by the Harare acting town clerk Phakamile Moyo, and shared on their social media sites, the local authority raised concern over the…
Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE Harare City Council (HCC) is targeting to vaccinate more than 200 000 children aged between six months and five years during the on-going vaccination blitz against measles. This comes at a time when Zimbabwe has been hit by a measles outbreak which has so far claimed 157 lives with over 2…
