CITY of Harare residents will endure three days without portable water as the local authority has embarked on refurbishing its pipeline along the Harare-Bulawayo highway. In a statement yesterday, acting town clerk Phakamile Moyo said the programme would require the shutting down of the Morton Jaffray water works from last night to Friday. “We hereby…
ZANU PF MPs have moved a motion to ban opposition party members calling for sanctions from holding public offices. This comes as Zanu PF is accusing the opposition of inviting sanctions against the country which, according to them, are causing untold suffering to Zimbabweans. It also comes as the government is planning to enact patriotic…
THE cash-strapped Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to peg its levies and service charges in United States Dollars. In a notice, yesterday, Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube said the local authority’s move has been necessitated by the continued depreciation of the Zimbabwe dollar, making it difficult to cope with the ever rising cost of…
THE government is working on new mechanisms aimed at abating the continuing upsurge in the prices of basic goods, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Speaking at the burial of the late General Sikhulile Simpson Nyathi at the National Heroes Acre yesterday, Mnangagwa also called upon businesses to help authorities to develop the country’s economy. In…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya STAFF WRITER ngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw THE country has started rolling out fourth Covid jabs to people who want to further fortify their protection against the respiratory disease, the deputy minister of Health John Mangwiro has said. Speaking in the Senate last week, Mangwiro also said everyone in the country from the age of 12 onwards…
Melisa Chatikobo chatikobom@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council loses almost US$250 000 daily through space barons collecting money from vendors, the capital’s Provincial Affairs secretary Tafadzwa Muguti has said. In a statement yesterday, Muguti said his office had embarked on a joint operation with relevant stakeholders to plug the leakages. “For some time now there has been a…
Hazel Marimbiza in BULAWAYO FOLLOWING a recent spike in machete and armed robberies in the country’s second largest city, the police say they have nabbed eight robbers out of 13 wanted suspects. The robbers were reportedly terrorising victims with machetes before stealing their property or cash and in some instances murdering them. Addressing journalists yesterday,…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw PARLIAMENT has demanded an investigation into possible corruption regarding the distribution of Covid-19 grants to vulnerable groups by the Labour and Social Welfare ministry and a communications company. This comes as the government set aside Covid-19 relief funds to cushion vulnerable members of society during the hard lockdown to contain the spread…
BOTH ordinary consumers and businesses alike continue to reel from the country’s relentless power outages, which got worse in Harare at the weekend. So serious are the capital city’s current blackouts, that its central business district (CBD) — which houses key government functions and major corporate head offices — has had no electricity at all…
Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailnews.co.zw ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda says it is the duty of Parliament to review fuel taxes as a measure to cut its prices. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Soda said his ministry does not have powers to reduce fuel taxes. “My understanding is, it is the Parliament which passes the taxation…
