THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says the youth comprise the highest proportion of new prisoners across the country’s prisons. In its 2023 second quarter prison admissions and discharge statistics, the agency indicated that most of the new inmates, who had not completed any level of education, were in jail for theft, as[1]sault, burglary and…
AUTHORITIES have set up a technical committee to look into how it can end the water crisis that has hit Harare for over a month now, amid increase of cholera cases across the country. In a statement yesterday, Water minister Anxious Masuka said the members of the technical committee are from government ministries, Zimbabwe National…
BY RUTENDO NGARA AUTHORITIES must end the escalating mushrooming of informal urban settlements in the country to help avert recurring health crises such as the current cholera outbreak. So says Harare City Council (HCC) epidemiologist Michael Vere, who adds that the local authority is fearful that the fresh cholera flare-up in the capital will spread…
GIANT beverages maker, Delta Corporation, has scooped the prestigious Top Companies Survey (TCS) award for the second year in a row, after…
THE government is set to auction over 400 abandoned vehicles after one -and-a-half months if they are not claimed by their owners. In a Government Gazette on Friday, the ministry of Transport said 442 unregistered, locally abandoned and accident-damaged vehicles, including foreign registered vehicles, across the country were going to be sold. “It is hereby…
THE United Nations (UN) has called on all stakeholders in Zimbabwe to work together and address the negative effects expected from the looming El Nino-induced drought and other natural disasters in the 2023/23 summer season. Addressing delegates in Harare on Friday to mark the official end of the four-year Zimbabwe Idai recovery programme, UN resident…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday said they are engaging the police to investigate and arrest space barons who are allegedly swindling US$120 000 per month from thousands of informal traders at the popular Glen View 8 manufacturing complex. For years, operations at the complex have been hampered by repeated fire outbreaks, with the latest…
PARLIAMENT says it will follow the country’s Constitution with regards to this week’s surprise bid to recall 15 legislators belonging to the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). This comes as fresh confusion has hit the CCC after a well-known opposition fi gure claiming to be the party’s interim secretary-general, Sengezo Tshabangu, wrote to National Assembly…
Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government has no capacity to monitor and sanction its teachers who conduct extra lessons for a fee away from the gaze of authorities. So says Education minister Torerai Moyo, who told the Daily News yesterday that authorities would continue to take action against teachers who conducted extra lessons for learners on…
Farai MabezaSENIOR STAFF WRITER PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister July Moyo says Zimbabwe’s occupational disabling injuries and fatalities recorded over the past five years have not been encouraging. Moyo made the remarks as he officially opened the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)’s 60th national conference on safety at work in Victoria Falls on…
