By Rutendo Ngara HEAVY rains pounded most parts of Zimbabwe on Thursday, killing two women in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central, after the storm uprooted a tree that fell on their parked vehicle they were sheltering in. Authorities yesterday said they were now on high alert for possible floods. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Department of…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa AUTHORITIES say they are closely monitoring Covid developments around the world as new variants of the pandemic continue to emerge. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the chief coordinator for the national Covid-19 response in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office, Agnes Mahomva, also said there was no need for Zimbabweans to panic as…
PUBLIC sector workers, including teachers, want good-faith dialogue with the government to end years of strained relations with their employer, which have often boiled over into industrial action. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, the secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), Raymond Majongwe, said…
HARARE has only six functional fire tender trucks and six ambulances for its emergency services with the city response capacity in dire straits due to limited resources, the city’s mayor Jacob Mafume has confirmed. In his end of 2022 message, he said the municipality was gravely concerned that the city’s state of emergency services equipment…
POLICE arrested a gang of notorious armed robbers following fierce exchanges of gunfire in Melfort, just outside Marondera, and in Harare on Wednesday. Speaking to the Daily News last night, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said law enforcement agents had arrested the bandits after raiding their base in Melfort before later laying a trap for…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is scaling up its support for tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy in Zimbabwe by assisting the government and other relevant stakeholders to introduce a mobile application meant to ease screening of the disease. This comes after statistics by WHO indicated that Zimbabwe experienced a decrease in TB Preventive Therapy…
By Rutendo Ngara FORMER commercial white farmers, whose land was expropriated by the government in the early 2000s, say they are concerned with the continued delay by the government in compensating them. This comes as the government has made a new proposal to Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) representatives on how it would compensate the former…
Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw A BUOYANT Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says the results of last year’s parliamentary and municipal by-elections show that the party can win this year’s crunch harmonised polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, CCC national spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere also said the party was approaching the elections having factored in the probability that…
Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) says it continues to battle a serious shortage of blood, which has seen its stocks plunging to a mere day’s supply in Harare and Bulawayo. As a result, NBSZ says it has partnered with a major fuel retail company, Redan Coupon, which will give blood donors free…
THE trial of jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala failed to start again after the magistrates’ court yesterday postponed the matter to next Monday to allow both the prosecution and defence to file written submissions. This comes after Sikhala filed an application seeking to have his trial for allegedly inciting violence in…
