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muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Jobst von Kirchmann, says reforms being implemented by the government in various sectors will attract foreign direct investment and boost the country’s economy. Speaking in Harare yesterday during the first-ever European Union-Zimbabwe Business Forum, Kirchmann hailed the country’s reform process saying it would boost agriculture exports and…

SOUTHERN EDITOR THE country’s food security is under increasing threat from invasive alien species (IAS) owing to a growing ecological crisis with serious consequences for agriculture, biodiversity and rural livelihoods, the Environmental Management Authority (Ema) has warned. IAS are native plants, animals and organisms that establish themselves in new environments that are spreading fast across…

Stella Madzivanyika madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are working on improving the public health delivery system with the government partnering with China to rehabilitate and provide medicine to Parirenyatwa hospital, the country’s main referral health facility. This comes as the government is struggling to make timely payments to companies supplying essential medicines to the nation’s beleaguered public health…

Tapiwa Chirume chirumet@dailynews.co.zw CHITUNGWIZA Town Council is planning to capture and euthanise all unclaimed stray dogs, as the local authority intensifies its efforts to ensure the health and safety of its residents. Council spokesperson, Tafadzwa Kachiko, confirmed the move to the Daily News yesterday, emphasising that the municipality was taking the issue of feral dogs…

SOUTHERN EDITOR THE introduction of the ZiG, coupled with more prudent government policies, is helping to lift the quality of life of ordinary people, authorities say. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Association of Pension Funds’ (ZAPF) annual conference in Victoria Falls at the weekend, the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, added that recent nurturing fiscal and…

Brighton Muronzereyi and Thabiso Mutirwara GOVERNMENT has set up a committee to investigate schools that continue to defy its directive on turning away children over school fees. This comes as some schools in Mashonaland West, Harare, Masvingo and Manicaland provinces were sending students home over non-payment of fees despite a government directive against it. Speaking…

Tapiwa Chirume chirumet@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council (HCC) collected ZiG790 million last month from newly introduced levies meant to service the city’s US$98 million Chinese loan and improve the metro’s infrastructure. This comes as the HCC in March this year introduced three levies on emergency, water, and street lighting which, however, drew outrage from residents, and…

Staff writer in BULAWAYO IN a dramatic crackdown, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has slapped 155 property owners with a stern warning, renovate your structures immediately or face the wrath of the law. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on Sunday, the BCC housing director, Dictor Khumalo, said between 2021 and March this year, the council…

Staff writer in BULAWAYO THE minister of State for Matabeleland South, Albert Nguluvhe, has challenged road management agencies and local councils to collaborate when rehabilitating roads as the public expects efficient service delivery. Speaking during a provincial development committee meeting yesterday, Nguluvhe said roads must be of high quality. “Our people want us to deliver,…

IT HAS emerged that the government is also not paying companies that supply vital medicines to the country’s distressed public health sector on time. This was confirmed in the Senate last week by the deputy minister of Health and Childcare, Sleiman Kwidini — at a time that many other government suppliers are battling to get…