BINDURA mayor Jacob Gwature, 39, and his alleged accomplice Jonathan Kapasi, 49, have been nabbed on allegations of fraud involving US$6 970. In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the suspects, operating under the company name Pamhodzi Rainbow Network in Zimbabwe, received £5 000 (equivalent to US$6,970) from Kitchen Table Charities Trust…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has announced that by-elections for four local authorities will be held on November 11 in different wards and one parliamentary seat, a month after the holding of the 2023 harmonised elections. This comes as the contesting candidates died before the polls were held on August 23 and 24.In a statement…
POLICE have in two weeks arrested over 34 000 errant motorists in an ongoing blitz code-named “Tame the Traffic Jungle”. This comes as the authorities have intensified their blitz on errant driving in the country by extending the clampdown on public transport vehicle owners whose drivers are found without legal papers or driving unroadworthy cars.In…
ZANU PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has called for an overhaul of the country’s economic model to meet the demands of the country’s ever-growing population.- This comes as the country’s population has increased from about 14 million in 2012 to over 16 million this year, according to the recently announced census results.It also comes…
THE Church continues to implore Zimbabweans to move away from the country’s polarised politics, as well as the recent elections, and focus more on nation building. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC), Tryvis Moyo, said the country’s political leaders should not allow politics and elections to…
By Rutendo Ngara THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has hailed Zimbabwe for continuously increasing and improving demand for integrated sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV services. Local women are receiving comprehensive packages of family planning services such as contraceptives and HIV prevention and treatment services. According to WHO, the one-stop-shop project for HIV and…
THE Rural Electrification Fund (Ref) says it has so far installed electricity at over 10 000 public institutions countrywide. Ref is a statutory body created by the government through an Act of Parliament with a mandate to facilitate provision of energy infrastructure in rural communities for socio economic growth and the general development of rural…
ECONOMIC shocks are the main drivers of food insecurity in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries, an alliance of humanitarian and development actors, the Global Network Against Food Crises has revealed. In its mid-year global report for 2023 released yesterday, the organisation said more needed to be done to stabilise economies in the southern African…
ZIMBABWE is recording monthly increases of vulnerable citizens who are food insufficient with 4,2 million people recorded to be in need of aid assistance in the first week of this month due to limited own-produced food stocks and constrained household purchasing power. In its latest situation report, the World Food Programme (WFP) noted that the…
A LOCALLY developed instant personal loan application – WildFin Smart Loan App, which offers a convenient and hassle-free way for civil servants…
