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'Lack of consensus fomented govt ructions, discord'
OF late, there have been contradictory statements coming out of the Information ministry and other government departments regarding various programmes and policy issues. NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Ev...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Swine Fever outbreak hits Zimbabwe
The country has been hit by African Swine Fever (ASF) which has already caused the death of 156 pigs in Nyakomba and Nyamaropa areas in Manicaland. Government has since moved in to curb the sp...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:02hrs | 229 | by STaff reporter
Bulawayo cuts off private land developers
BULAWAYO Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube has said private land developers are giving City Fathers a headache after failing to deliver, hence the local authority will no longer be providing them with la...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:37hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe Remand Prison bans cooked food
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has banned visitors from bringing cooked food to inmates at Kwekwe Remand Prison at a time the institution is failing to provide standard meals....Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:40hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious deaths rock Mkwabeni schools in Filabusi
THE Vokola community in Filabusi, Insiza district, Matabeleland South has expressed concern over the "mysterious deaths" of pupils in their local schools in the past month. Two pupils have die...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:47hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwas donate $60m to fight cholera
The family foundation of Econet founders Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa has committed an additional $60 million towards the cholera response in Zimbabwe.The commitment comes on the back of an init...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
What the fuel protests mean for Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans had been hoping for a fresh start when Robert Mugabe's 38-year rule came to an end in November 2017.But 14 months on, a brutal crackdown on fuel protests, which has left 17 people ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2202 | by IRIN
Butcheries sell infected meat
A RARE tick-borne disease (atheileriosis) is killing cattle at an alarming rate in Mutare district with some unscrupulous elements reportedly selling the carcases to butchery operators at give away pr...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:07hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sewer system collapses?
A health hazard is looming in Bulawayo as the sewerage system has collapsed and raw effluent is polluting the environment with over half a million dollars needed to contain the challenge.Resid...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:13hrs | 2984 | by Staff reporter
Zimra mum on Beitbridge warehouse inferno
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has declined to disclose the value of goods lost in three fire incidents in which its warehouses at Beitbridge Border Post were razed to the ground, saying the i...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:13hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak hits Mutoko
An 18-year-old Mutoko man has succumbed to cholera, with four others currently admitted as the country records a fresh outbreak of the medieval waterborne disease.Mashonaland East provincial E...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:50hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Chegutu
The Chegutu Municipality has clashed with its residents who are accusing it of causing a diarrhoea outbreak in the town after it supplied them with dirty tap water for a number of days. Reside...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:17hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Chamisa trade insults over Tuku funeral
THE death of music great and national hero Oliver Mtukudzi, while uniting a weary country at least for a few days, also exposed the abiding paranoia of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administrat...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2115 | by newzimbabwe.com
Chitungwiza residents give up on service delivery
CHITUNGWIZA residents said they were battling a myriad of service delivery challenges, which include uncollected garbage, erratic water supplies, burst sewers, and have given up hope of getting normal...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:05hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reforms pledge hollow'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledge as a paper tiger devoid of implementation since he came into office, with his regime a...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:04hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe protest death toll from riots rises to 12
As normalcy slowly returns to Zimbabwe after days of tensions between protesters and security forces following this week's deadly riots - human rights groups yesterday said the death toll from the cla...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 15:55hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers leave ugly terror trail
Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country's trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week - shooting 68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-savi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
How Facebook and Whatsapp fuelled chaos and confusion in Zimbabwe
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook and Whatsapp. On the morning of January 14th 2019 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents flocked the towns filling the streets in the commercia...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:59hrs | 3528 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The unleashing of army to descend on demonstrators was uncalled for
The mayhem which occurred in Harare and Bulawayo is the result of a clueless government which cannot incline an ear to the grievances of the people who have been on the brunt of suffering and are forc...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:07hrs | 1787 | by Leonard Koni
Chaos and madness sweeping Zimbabwe were easily avoidable - have we finally learned how to
"The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights wishes to share with stakeholders critical information on the unfolding human rights crisis in Zimbabwe following the outbreak of violent protests...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2918 | by Nomusa Garikai
Britain warns its citizens in Zimbabwe
Since 14 January 2019 there has been widespread disruption, including violent protests, in many areas of the capital Harare and the cities of Bulawayo, Kadoma, Mutare, and Marondera. Many shops and ot...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | 6682 | by UK gov
Violence must be condemned at all levels
We have endured a week such as no nation should live through: a time of violence and tragedy. The country suffered losses to human life and to property. Zimbabwe needs to think about that trag...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1312 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police shut down shrine as cholera claims sect leader
MINISTRY of health officials in Murewa have for the second time in less than a month called in the police to shut down a popular Johanne Marange apostolic sect shrine in the area following the death o...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:31hrs | 401 | by newzimbabw
Masiyiwa family philanthropic efforts get thumbs-up
YOUTH economic pressure group Zimbabwe Entrepreneurs Youth Action (Zeya) had urged local youths to emulate the philanthropic efforts of of global telecommunications group Econet Wireless founder and C...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:57hrs | 222 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's MPs in fix over luxury cars
As Treasury prepares to splurge millions of scarce United States dollars on luxury utility vehicles (SUVs) for legislators serving in the ninth Parliament, MDC representatives and their leader Nelson ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:33hrs | 4662 | by Staff reporter
Essential services must be cushioned against fuel crisis
THE fuel crisis in the country is slowly deepening and spreading to other facets of society, with the City of Harare warning that it may not be able to collect waste in the city's neighbourhoods' as i...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 226 | by Editorial - newsday
Fuel shortage grounds council refuse trucks
Harare City Council has run out of fuel to collect garbage, raising fears of another cholera and typhoid outbreak.At least 55 people succumbed to cholera in Harare late last year.Counc...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:34hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
5 die in suspected fresh cholera scare
FIVE people have died from a suspected fresh cholera outbreak in Mavhurume village in Murewa.The deceased are members of the Johane Marange apostolic sect, who are barred from seeking medical ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:26hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bans importation of meat from South Africa
The Ministry of lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and rural resettlement has immediately banned the importation of the importation of live, cloven hoofed animals and related products from South Afric...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:00hrs | 2186 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gweru 'ignores' typhoid victim lawsuit
GWERU City Council is yet to respond to a letter of demand filed by former MDC councillor Clemence Kwaru, who is demanding $9 000 compensation after contracting typhoid from tap water supplied by the ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
DRC opposition leader declared winner of presidential poll
Congo opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi has been declared the winner of the long-delayed presidential election, the electoral commission announced early Thursday to the surprise of many, as the vast ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1947 | by Associated Press
Mnangagwa's wife meets church leaders
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday met church leaders from across denominations and impressed upon them the need to embrace the national clean-up campaign launched by President Mnangagwa last mon...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:33hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Political drama engulfs 2018
The curtain came down on 2018 and as 2019 is finally into full swing, the Daily News spoke to a number of social and political analysts who gave us what they think were the political highlights of the...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:55hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
RBZ fails to release money for refuse trucks
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is yet to release the money required by Harare City Council (HCC) to pay duty for the 15 refuse trucks that have been stuck in South Africa.The trucks which ...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:52hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
Harare, water purification dealer fight over $500k project
Harare City Council and a local water purification dealer are embroiled in a dispute over a $500 000 mobile water treatment plant meant to provide water to Mabvuku, Tafara and nearby suburbs.C...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:25hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is in office but not in power
Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency is characterised by passiveness, indecisiveness and escalating fuel shortages, looming strikes from civil servants, electricity black-outs and outbreaks of waterborne d...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 11:15hrs | 4802 | by Frazer Muzondo
Zimbabwe highlights for 2018
January ED visits sick TsvangiraiApart from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the home of the late Morgan Tsvangirai, another highlight for January 2018 was the arrest of se...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike calls for relook into health policy
AS the circus and confusion with regards to the junior doctors' strike continues unabated, it is time government shows sincerity to both the disgruntled medical practitioners and the general public....Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:38hrs | 256 | by Editorial - newsday
Major events of 2018
As we say goodbye to 2018, the Daily News on Sunday reflects on some stories that grabbed newspaper headlines and dominated social media. Below are some of the highlights....Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:56hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
US sends troops for possible 'violent' DRC vote protests
On the eve of the first expected results of Congo's long-delayed presidential election, U.S. President Donald Trump said military personnel had deployed to the region for possible "violent demonstrati...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:01hrs | 954 | by Associated Press
Bulawayo, Gweru on high cholera alert
BULAWAYO and Gweru city councils have scaled up the fight against waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid, following the onset of the rainy season.Bulawayo town clerk Christopher Dube ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to lead Bulawayo clean-up campaign today
PATRON and Ambassador of the National Clean Up Campaign, the First Lady Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa is today expected to lead the clean-up campaign in Bulawayo. President Emmerson Mnangagwa launche...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa blasts Jonathan Moyo
BILLIONAIRE tycoon and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has hit back at exiled former information minister Jonathan Moyo as the social media row over the cyber-bullying Econet founder's wife continues....Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:31hrs | 7115 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa speaks out on allegations
Founder of Econet Wireless Strive Masiyiwa has recently been accused by business mogul Mtumwa Mawere and politician Daniel Shumba of stealing Econet Wireless from Daniel Shumba and other shareholders...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 20:23hrs | 14410 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2018 did not inspire hope for 2019
Today marks the end of 2018 and what a dramatic year it has been. It started off full of promise and hope coming just six weeks after departure of former President Robert Mugabe.There was rene...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:00hrs | 71 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Doctors take fight to Supreme Court
Following Saturday's ruling by the Labour Court declaring the strike by junior doctors illegal, the medical practitioners are escalating their case to the Supreme Court.Munyaradzi Gwisai, who ...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:50hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Zimbabwe cholera outbreak claims 3
A fresh cholera outbreak has claimed three lives from 10 cases recorded since Tuesday in the Chomubobo mining area in Mberengwa, Midlands province.The affected patients are quarantined at Mnen...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:43hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fears at apostolic sect shrine
A SUSPECTED cholera outbreak has been reported at a Johane Marange Apostolic sect shrine in Murewa following the death of three members who are believed to have succumbed to the deadly waterborne dise...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:55hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF fails to address pressing issues, 'cries' Chamisa party
The resolutions of the Zanu PF annual conference exposed their misunderstanding of the reality on the ground. They reflect the failed party's lack of care for the suffering masses of the Zimbabwe. As ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:37hrs | 2287 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
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