By Rutendo Ngara SIX people died on Tuesday in separate road accidents, the second in less than a week as the festive season looks to be bloody. Last Saturday, six people died while nine others were injured when a truck rammed into a Nissan Caravan vehicle along the Kwekwe-Gokwe Road. In a statement yesterday, police…
By Rutendo Ngara UNITED Nations (UN) resident coordinator Edward Kallon claims that gender-based violence (GBV) cases in the country are underreported. Speaking during a campaign against GBV in Harare yesterday, Kallon said there was a need to up the game in the fight against the scourge in order for the country to achieve Sustainable Development…
By Brighton Muronzereyi THE coming Christmas and New Year holidays will likely be time off that only the Grinch will savour, as the country’s brutal power cuts worsen and prices of basic goods start to tick up again. This comes as reeling businesses have warned of potential significant retrenchments if the electricity crisis continues for…
By Brighton Muronzereyi AUTHORITIES say they will be introducing more reforms in government as part of efforts to end the entrenched culture of indiscipline and wasteful spending within the public sector. This was revealed by the permanent secretary in the ministry of Finance, George Guvamatanga, earlier this week during a post-budget meeting held in Harare….
By Brighton Muronzereyi ZIMBABWE’S power supplies remain critically low with the country generating at least 800 megawatts (MW) from both local power stations and imports. The country needs over 2 000MW daily power supplies. Cabinet yesterday discussed the dire situation of power supplies in the country and it was noted the country was importing at…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa SOME Harare residents have threatened to take to the streets to demonstrate against the city council for demolishing their property. Mufakose residents on Lot 2 Subdivision B of Subdivision A have since petitioned the council on the matter. This comes as the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) has directed the Criminal Investigations Department…
By Nyasha Dube ZIMDANCEHALL music producer Tafadzwa Kadzimwe, better known as Levels was yesterday granted $20 000 bail at the Harare Magistrate’s Court where he had appeared facing rape and two other charges. Kadzimwe was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping his girlfriend, Ashley “Shashl” Moyo, before leaking their nude pictures and sex tape on…
THE row over Parliament’s controversial US$40 000 housing loans to legislators is escalating within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), which will hold a crunch meeting in Harare today between party leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and the defiant MPs. Several party legislators who met Chamisa on Friday told the Daily News yesterday that the CCC…
By Ashley MoyoENTERTAINMENT WRITER INDEPENDENT national commercial television station, 3Ktv — the most watched Zimbabwean channel on satellite television — has added…
By Brandon Josphat THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it will maintain tight monetary measures and will only review them in the first quarter of 2023, in order to control inflation and enhance economic stability. In a statement yesterday, RBZ governor John Mangudya said the central bank’s monetary policy committee resolved last week to maintain…
