HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) will on Wednesday initiate a clean-up campaign targeting illegal structures, officials have said. Tendai Mahachi, the Harare town clerk, told a press conference at Town House yesterday that the campaign, which is set to begin on November 4 in Mbare’s ward 3, will not only target the filth and…
HARARE – Sexy Angels leader Beverly “Bev” Sibanda has found her great love and says she is head-over-heels with South Africa-based Zimbabwean footballer Khama Billiat. While the Daily News could not independently verify this with Billiat, the mother-of-one said she had decided to let the cat out of the bag in order to assuage people…
HARARE – A 37-year-old Glen View 7 man has been jailed for 16 years for raping his five-year-old niece. Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya initially sentenced Wilbert Chipunza to 18 years in prison but suspended two years on condition he does not commit an offence of a sexual nature within five years of his release….
HARARE – The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) wants to retrench 6 000 workers, about 86 percent of its workforce to cut running costs, a Cabinet minister has revealed. However, the government will instead seek to raise $260 million to recapitalise the parastatal and avert the job losses. “NRZ used to employ more than 25…
HARARE – Police have so far identified 14 out of the 24 victims who perished in the Chisumbanje road disaster. Six people who survived the horrific crash on Wednesday morning are receiving treatment, with some of them still in critical condition. According to a police report sent to Green Fuel yesterday, the survivors sustained serious…
CHIVI – A hungry Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) student assaulted a cook who had denied him food at the Mashava campus dining hall, a Chivi magistrate heard yesterday. Hernimo Giya, 29, was hauled before Chivi magistrate Francis Mapfumo facing assault and malicious damage of property charges. The student reportedly jumped over the food sharing counter…
HARARE – Mutare North MP Batsirayi Pemhenayi fraudulently sold a residential piece of land, resulting in a Nyazura man losing $18 000, a High Court judge has heard. Pemhenayi sold Stand number 7522 in Mutare in 2010 to Zuzeyi Mandiyabe, yet the property did not belong to him. Mandiyabe, through his lawyer Kudzaishe Gama, approached…
HARARE – Phillip Chiyangwa, a flamboyant businessman and property developer, has added another award to his bountiful cabinet by bagging the Black Entertainment, Film, and Fashion and Television Awards. Beffta Awards is a distinctly special awards ceremony honouring the best showbiz and entertainment personalities in the black and ethnic communities in the UK, USA, Africa,…
HARARE – Former CID vehicle theft squad detective, Gilbert Zvaita, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after the court found him guilty of theft of a motor vehicle. Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya sentenced Zvaita to five years in prison and suspended one-and-a-half years on condition he does not commit an offence of a similar…
HARARE – Econet Wireless, a diversified telecommunications group, is mulling introducing a health test kit for rural folk that will use cellphones. Dubbed the Econet Disease Surveillance Network (EDSN), it is designed to help villagers achieve a stable health condition at no cost. Strive Masiyiwa, the executive chairperson and founder of the Econet Wireless Group…
