HARARE – As the rains continue to pound on the land and peri-urban farmers working like bees in their small plots, news that the country needs to import grain to avert starvation seems a bit misplaced. Food security has become more topical not only in Zimbabwe, but in most developing countries. Any piece of idle…
HARARE – Judgement in Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s rape charges could not be delivered yesterday after Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya asked for an inspection-in-loco of the controversial pastor’s Marlborough mansion. The inspection revealed Gumbura’s flamboyant lifestyle, showing some modest glamour amid filth. Clad in prison garb, he toured his premises,…
HARARE – Lazarus Dokora, minister of Primary and Secondary Education, has announced the introduction of four years of compulsory infant education, meaning nine years of primary education for schoolchildren. Zimbabwe’s education system previously had seven years of primary school, although there has been a year of Early Childhood Development (ECD) class known as Grade Zero….
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s promises for a pay hike to government workers was a “high sounding nothing,” civil servants said yesterday. Mugabe promised to review salaries of civil servants to above the $570 poverty datum line, but no increment has been effected to date. The least paid civil servant is still getting $296. “It…
HARARE – A delegation of Chinese agriculture experts is in the country for a 15-day feasibility study on the future of agriculture cooperation between Beijing and Harare. The team of professionals from the Chinese Agriculture ministry met Agriculture minister Joseph Made at his offices in Harare yesterday. Briefing the media after the meeting, Yang Yi,…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) will in the next four weeks embark on major road maintenance as the rains have caused major damage to the roads. “The rains, which are pounding a road network starved of periodic intervention measures over the years due to underfunding of the roads sector, are causing the roads to…
HARARE – The second draw of the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ)’s Read & Win Competition will be conducted tomorrow from 1400hrs at the Daily News head office at Trust Towers in Harare. Lucky winners will walk away with exciting prizes that include a Sunpower solar geyser, Simba garden hamper, GTel smartphone, Midea microwave oven…
HARARE – A disgruntled man yesterday told a Harare magistrate that his wife accuses him of having sexual relations with his own mother. Munyaradzi Pedze hauled his wife, Sinikiwe Magwenzi before the Harare Civil Court seeking a divorce and protection order. He told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that his wife verbally abuses him, calling him a…
BULAWAYO – A Bermas Mine security guard has been slapped with a 10-month jail term for stealing almost $1 000 from the company. Vusumuzi Ndlovu, 26, was convicted on his own plea when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove. Two months of the sentence were conditionally suspended for three years. The State alleges that…
HARARE – An Independent arbitrator in the salary dispute between Chitungwiza municipality and its employees has ordered the local authority to clear all salary arrears by July 2014. With the local authority saddled with a debt of over $50 million, the employees, who have now gone for close to a year without pay, has resolved…
