HARARE – Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire has admitted that government in its joint venture with Green Fuel had no backup plan in case of shortages of sugar cane for ethanol production. This comes as Green Fuel’s ethanol stocks diminished resulting in government backtracking on its December decision to revise upwards its mandatory ethanol blending levels…
HARARE – Lovemore Moyo, the MDC national chairperson, has withdrawn his election petition contesting the results of the July 31 elections for Matobo North constituency, fearing he will not get a fair hearing. Moyo was contesting the results at the Bulawayo High Court citing electoral fraud. The former Speaker was defeated by Zanu PF’s Never…
HARARE – Government and civil servants have signed a pay deal that will see the least paid government worker getting a $79 salary increment. Civil servants’ negotiators who spoke to the Daily News yesterday after a marathon meeting with government representatives said the lowest paid employee in Grade B1 will now receive a monthly salary…
BULAWAYO – An executive director for a local modelling agency has been dragged to court after he was arrested for using a ladies toilet. Ricky Nathanson, 48, of Ricochet Modelling Agency pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Eveline Mashavakuve facing charges of criminal nuisance as defined in Section 46 of Criminal Law…
BULAWAYO – Four employees at a local retail outlet landed themselves in hot soup after they were suspected to have stolen 32kg of butternut squash meant for sale. Deon John Middlemen, 41 George Raymond Ndlovu, 23, Paradzai Hove, 36 and George Muchineripi appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa to answer theft charges. The quartet denied…
HARARE – Two Zanu PF officials are embroiled in a school ownership wrangle with parents who are resisting the duo’s plans to indigenise the Eiffel Flats Primary School. The parents allege that the school’s board of governors (BOG) chairperson Munyaradzi Dhobie and Chegutu West House of Assembly member Dexter Nduna were involved in underhand manoeuvres…
HARARE – Legislators yesterday demanded an explanation from government on the farm mechanisation programme and Operation Maguta/Inala. The Public Accounts parliamentary portfolio committee chaired by Mufakose MDC MP Paurina Mpariwa grilled Ringson Chitsiko, the permanent secretary in the ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development on the exact beneficiaries of the two programmes. She argued…
HARARE – Zimbabwe students have roundly condemned the Zanu PF-led government for neglecting nearly a million Zimbabwean orphans and disadvantaged children who depend on State assistance to pay school fees. Ngoni Masoka, the permanent secretary in the Public Service ministry, told a parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Service Labour and Social Welfare last week, that…
BULAWAYO – A man facing murder charges and threats from the deceased’s relatives to avenge the death of their kin has been further remanded in custody to Friday 24th. Zibusiso Mpofu, the murder suspect, has maintained that his deceased opponent assaulted him first. It is the State’s case that on December 20, Mpofu was drinking…
HARARE – A Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) projects supervisor inflated quotations from a service provider and defrauded his employer of more than $7 000. Makiel Pikire was facing fraud charges when he appeared before Harare Magistrate Ndaba Tsatsawana. Prosecutor Desire Chidanire alleged that sometime in August last year RTG — represented by Clara Mapfunde —…
