POLICE have banned with immediate effect the use of hand-held spikes by officers. This comes amid a huge public outcry over the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday unveiled a new clinic in Stoneridge, Harare South, a move that will see residents benefitting from accessible and affordable healthcare. This comes as Harare South residents, particularly pregnant women and mothers, had long been suffering amid shortage of health facilities with most having to go to Glen Norah, Machipisa, and Waterfalls…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has expressed its displeasure at the snail’s pace at which corruption cases are being prosecuted in the country’s courts, with some going for as far as three years un-concluded. This is despite the fact that in 2018 the Judicial Service Commission established anti-corruption courts in all the country’s 10 provinces…
THE government says there is a need for the local authorities and the private sector to join hands with the government in addressing challenges in the health sector. Speaking at a handover ceremony of donated medical equipment at Thorngrove Infectious Hospital on Wednesday, Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube said challenges faced in the health sector…
THE debate over what authorities should do to stabilise prices of basic goods and the Zimbabwe dollar continues to rage, with experts generally agreeing that the government needs to do much more to achieve macro-economic vitality. Speaking on independent television channel 3Ktv’s popular Vantage programme last night, two of the country’s leading economists, Christopher Mugaga and…
Melisa Chatikobo THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has ordered all banks to disclose their suspended and other internal accounts as some are now being used to buy foreign currency on the black market. In a statement yesterday, the FIU director general Oliver Chiperesa said the financial records are being manipulated…
ZIMBABWE is on high alert following the detection of a new Covid-19 variant (Pi) in neighbouring South Africa last week. This comes as experts have said that the new strain spreads faster than Omicron, amid fears of a fifth coronavirus wave in the region. On Wednesday alone, SA recorded more than 10 000 new positive…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legitimacy challenger at the High Court Sybeth Musengezi has appeared in court charged with fraudulently becoming a member of Zanu PF and attaining a position in the youth wing using a fake residential address. Musengezi was not asked to plead to fraud charges when he appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda who…
Dj Fantan yesterday appeared in court on allegations of abusing his wife by damaging household property, forcing her to be a housewife and not seek employment. Born Anorld Kamudyariwa, the emcee is accused of, apart from malicious injury to property, soaking blankets, emotionally abusing his wife, Gamuchirai Nemukuyu, which according to the State, is in…
THE country’s mounting prices crisis goes beyond the linear relationship between the weakening Zim dollar and the much-coveted greenback as posited by economic experts, a senior government official has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, presidential spokesperson George Charamba, pictured, added that Zimbabwe suffered from an “imperfect market structure” where monopolies had “no reason to be…
