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A REGIONAL gender-based organisation, South Western Region Gender Network (SWRGN), has urged the government to effectively implement gender policies, saying this will help reduce gender-based violence (GBV) in the country. SWRGN national coordinator Chelesile Nyathi told journalists yesterday that they were concerned with the rate at which GBV cases were increasing in Matabeleland, especially during…

WITH the lethal coronavirus continuing to wreak havoc in the country, authorities announced last night that law enforcement agents would turn away people entering city centres without travel exemption letters. In addition, they also re-instated police checkpoints in and around major roads leading to city centres, to enforce the latest hard lockdown measures. This comes…

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has unveiled a new $50 note which will begin circulating today, amid hopes that this will not lead to rises in inflation and the prices of basic consumer goods. “The RBZ wishes to advise the public that the $50 banknote … will be introduced into circulation on July 7…

THE government says the country will conduct its fifth population and housing census between April 21 and 30 next year. Finance minister…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says China is playing a critical role in Zimbabwe’s development path, adding that the two countries have an unbreakable…

WITH Zanu PF continuing to reel from its long-standing internal wars, party bigwigs are moving with more urgency to lance these divisions as the 2023 national elections loom ever closer. Party secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that senior officials were now fed up with the infighting, prompting them to work more…

BOGUS Criminal Investigations Department (CID) operatives are on the prowl in Harare, targeting residential areas in daring criminal acts, the Zimbabwe Republic Police have said. This comes as robbery cases involving bogus operatives have been on an increase, with a gang recently pouncing on an unsuspecting man in Harare’s Zimre Park at midnight on the…

THREE cattle rustlers, who were sentenced to a collective 124 years in jail, have approached the High Court challenging their sentences. Prosper Musamanyi, Joram Chinyati and Batsirai Changoya, who were sentenced to 50, 25 and 49 years respectively, told the High Court that the sentences were too harsh. “The applicants also humbly submit that the…

BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube,  has slammed people in the second city for their complacency which is fuelling Covid-19 new infections and deaths in the region.  This comes as Bulawayo currently has at least 912 active Covid-19 cases with a number of hospitals in the city now running out of beds.  However, the huge amount…

MORE than 20 percent of people with chronic illnesses, such as HIV, hypertension and diabetes, in rural areas are defaulting on their medication due to high costs, the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Zimvac) says. According to the organisation’s 2021 Rural Livelihoods Assessment report, Matabeleland North province constituted the largest percentage of defaulters at nine percent….