Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO COMMUTERS from Robert Sinyoka in Bulawayo were yesterday stranded in town after public transporter Zupco withdrew its buses plying the route, citing “bad roads”. Robert Sinyoka and Mazwi village are peri-urban settlements a few kilometres outside Bulawayo, just after Pumula South. However, the roads in the area are in a…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed beverage maker, Delta group, says revenue grew by 77 percent for the third quarter ended December 31, 2020 owing to significant increase in sales for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. In a statement yesterday, Delta said revenue grew on the back of the eased lockdown regulations…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, pictured, has called for women to fast and pray starting today until Saturday in order for Zimbabwe to beat the current Covid-19 second wave. This comes as the country has been recording an alarming increase of new infections and deaths since the start of the…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO AUTHORITIES have joined hands with a local civil society organisation in a bid to mitigate the distressing deaths of children born with heart defects in the southern region — where 34 babies succumbed to congenital heart disease (CHD) last year. The director for non-communicable diseases in the Health and Child Care…
masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw THE police have announced that they are now strictly enforcing the 6pm-to-6am curfew after a great deal of indiscipline from Zimbabweans despite a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a bid to slow down the rate of infections and rising deaths, the government a fortnight ago announced a new hard lockdown and curfew…
AT LEAST 26 families in Gweru have been evacuated from their homes after they were affected by flash floods following heavy rains that have been pounding the Midlands capital. This comes as heavy downpours have been experienced in most parts of the country, destroying homes and infrastructure, including roads and bridges, since the start…
HARARE town clerk Hosiah Chisango is not allowed anywhere near Town House or within 100 metres of any council office as part of his bail conditions set by a magistrate court yesterday. Chisango was arrested last week for allegedly going on a victimisation spree at the local authority, attempting to sabotage an investigation into council…
Godknows Matarutse and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS AS THE country remains in the vice grip of the deadly coronavirus, amid soaring deaths and infections, police have made a fresh appeal to Zimbabweans to improve their discipline and heed all current lockdown measures. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi,…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw THE government is probing former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm, Glorious Properties. On her part, Kagonye described the investigation in an interview with the Daily News yesterday as a “smear campaign” by her detractors. “I…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) acting general manager Joseph Mashika has died. NNRZ board chairperson Martin Dinha told the Daily News that Mashika passed on at a private clinic in the capital on Sunday. He succumbed to an undisclosed illness. Mashika was 44 and is survived by his wife, Nomatter, and four children….
