THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has urged people to embrace the use of digital and electronic money when making transactions that require huge sums of money. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) sensitisation seminar at the University of Zimbabwe yesterday, RBZ deputy governor Innocent Matshe said they had disbursed enough money for use in…
THE trial of former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko is set to continue after the Supreme Court upheld a High Court judgment dismissing…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are mulling the reintroduction of the mandatory wearing of face masks in public, as well as the use of sanitisers, in a bid to contain the heavy influenza bug ravaging the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the deputy minister of Health, Sleiman Kwidini, said the government was carrying…
THE ANC will have to consider external voices who have raised glaring concerns about possible coalition arrangements it is likely to decide…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES yesterday confirmed that Zimbabwean citizens living in South Africa will from next month start applying for Zimbabwe identity documents (IDs) in that country. Speaking in Harare at a handover of vehicles to the immigration department, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said the training of officers from the Registrar General’s Office, to…
FOUR people died when a Tenda bus collided with a haulage truck and a Phils and Pats bus yesterday near Mutangadura along the Harare-Mutare highway. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the Tenda bus was on its way to Mutare, while Phils and Pats bus was heading to Harare. “The ZRP (Zimbabwe Republic Police) confirms…
TWO Plumtree men were this week sentenced to a combined 40-year jail term after they were convicted of gang-raping a 79-year-old grandmother after one of them was arrested while sleeping in the complainant’s bedroom. They appeared before the Plumtree Magistrates’ Court. The two men, aged 23 and 21, were convicted after a full trial of…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw HEAVY countrywide load-shedding has returned with a vengeance, due in part to maintenance works at the key Hwange Thermal Power Station. This comes as most of Zimbabwe has been enjoying improved power supply over the past few months after the coming on stream of Hwange’s new units 7 and 8. It…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw IN A welcome development, traders and ordinary consumers will be able to withdraw cash at Homelink branches as from next week. This comes as authorities are ramping up their efforts to promote the wider availability and use of the country’s new currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG). It also comes amid growing…
By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw NATIONAL Social Security Authority (Nssa) director David Makwara was yesterday acquitted of over US$18 200 fraud charges he was facing before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei. He was being prosecuted for allegedly defrauding the authority of US$182 661 after engaging a contractor who was renovating his house. However, in his ruling Ndirowei…
