HARARE – Kefasi Gaura, the Archbishop of the National Apostolic Faith Mission of the Holy Ghost (NAFMHG) Archbishop, has died of kidney failure. He was 83. Archbishop Gaura was buried at his Mudhindo rural home in Guruve on Friday. Congregants, family and friends who attended the burial described the late Gaura as a figurehead who…
HARARE – Munesuishe Munodawafa, permanent secretary for Transport and Infrastructural Development, said yesterday government was not yet ready to introduce urban tollgates as more consultations were needed on the matter. Presenting oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport, Munodawafa said the project needed a substantial cash injection before it can be rolled out….
BULAWAYO – Livingstone Dzikira, Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) director, came under fire at a youth conference for allegedly turning a government body into a Zanu PF project. ZYC is a quasi-government institution which was established by an Act of Parliament to co-ordinate, supervise and foster activities of youth clubs, associations or organisations from grassroot to…
BULAWAYO – One of the six serial armed robbers who operated by disguising themselves as Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) employees to gain entry into people’s properties has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment. Bulawayo regional Magistrate Sikhumbuzo Nyathi convicted Bruce Lindani Ziyambi, 36 on his own plea of guilty. Three years were suspended on…
HARARE – A Norton man will spend the next 13 years in jail for raping a fellow tenant’s seven-year-old daughter. Nicholas Mbendera, 26, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment after Harare magistrate Sandra Mpindu found him guilty of rape. Three years were suspended on condition Mbendera does not commit an offence of sexual nature. The…
HARARE – Information minister Jonathan Moyo once again enjoined the media to promote the national interests. It is clear that the media-national interests question is still unsettled in the national discourse. From Moyo’s calls, the assumption is that there are media that disserve national interests. There is no accepted universal standard of the concept of…
HARARE – At least 20 percent of the country’s 350 000 hectares of forests have been lost to tobacco curing. There will be a deficit of timber in 20 years if we don’t do something. Tree planting is the most popular and visible effort undertaken by citizens, government, business and civil society. A national greening…
EDITOR — While the Zanu PF government is busy bickering over succession issues and the recently-elected legislators are busy clamouring for top-of-the-range vehicles whose total value runs into millions, over 2,2 million Zimbabweans are facing starvation. And all that only a few months after these politicians have been elected into office on account of the…
EDITOR — In as much as we do not want vendors putting up anywhere in the city centre, I do not think chasing and arresting them is the solution for a number of reasons. Firstly, this hide and seek approach that the council is using has proven a failure over the years. They have done…
EDITOR — I would like to ask why we, truck drivers, are being forced to go for the so-called driving retest after five years. What confuses me most is we drive through the most dangerous terrains for example Marongora and Kapiri Ngozi with heavy loads, then we are asked to go to the VID for…
