ARMED robbers hijacked a Beitbridge-bound bus early yesterday morning before making away with over US$16 000 from the passengers in Chatsworth, Masvingo. The robbers, believed to have been six, posed as passengers on the Boundary Express bus before pulling out a gun and ordering the driver to pull over into a secluded place in Chatsworth. …
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says authorities will come down hard on armed robbers and drug peddlers as the government fights to create a safe and prosperous Zimbabwe.Speaking at the burial of the late prominent Roman Catholic cleric, Father Emmanuel Ribeiro, at the National Heroes’ Acre yesterday, Mnangagwa also said the government would leave no stone unturned…
WOMEN’S Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni says she will push the government to provide funding to make sanitary products available for free in all public toilets in a bid to eliminate period poverty. Speaking during a webinar running under the theme “Period Dignity” which was organised by the Period Company yesterday, Nyoni said women should campaign…
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he still holds the keys to President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding in turning around the country’s fitful economy and normalising Zimbabwe’s lukewarm relations with the West. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, after presidential spokesperson George Charamba said last week that Chamisa should banish any thoughts of…
HEALTH experts say although the country is not yet experiencing a third coronavirus wave, Zimbabweans should adhere to the current strict public management regulations of the pandemic to stop the cases of the virulent respiratory disease from spiking further. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the president of the Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA), Shingai…
POLICE are facing strong criticism in the wake of brutal attacks on vendors and desperate commuters in downtown Harare this week by rogue members of the force, acting under the guise of enforcing the country’s fortified coronavirus measures.The Daily News was told by hurting members of the public yesterday how delinquent and baton-wielding police officers…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere for misconduct. This comes after he received a report from a tribunal he set up last year to investigate Ndewere on whether she was still fit to remain in office after a slew of misconduct allegations levelled against her. “The tribunal established in terms…
By Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO SOUTHAMPTON Building that houses police officers in the Bulawayo city centre was yesterday gutted by a fire, which is suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault. The 13-storey building, which also houses Bulawayo West Police headquarters situated on Joshua Mqabuko Street and 9th Avenue, caught fire on its…
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has described crystal meth (mutoriro) as a great danger for Zimbabwe’s youth and called on the government to come up with ways to eradicate the illicit drug. Mutevedzi made the remarks while sentencing Mathew Hopkins to an effective two-and-half-years in jail for possession of the drug yesterday. The 29-year-old Hopkins pleaded…
ANOTHER Zanu PF regional meeting descended into chaos this past weekend, with party bigwigs said to have almost come to blows at the get-together — as ugly factionalism continues to ravage the ruling party. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said the ruckus at the Mashonaland Central provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting was fuelled by…
