HARARE – Twenty-three primary schools, led by Kwekwe-based private school, Camelot Primary, attained an incredible 100 percent pass rate in the November 2013, Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examinations. According to Zimsec statistics, the rest of the schools completing the Top 100 table scored a percentage pass rate of over 90 percent, culminating in a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has reduced licence fees for local diamond polishing and cutting firms from $100 000 to $20 000 annually. The licence is valid for 10 years. Walter Chidhakwa, the Mines minister, told a news conference yesterday that the move was aimed at promoting the local beneficiation industry as well as creating jobs in…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s party, Zanu PF, has dismissed the suspension of European Union (EU) sanctions on service chiefs as a non-event, demanding that the nonagenarian and his wife be removed from the list also. The EU on Monday dropped from the sanctions list Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander general Constantine Chiwenga, Zimbabwe National Army…
BULAWAYO – A 20-year-old teacher from Longwe Primary School in rural Bubi has been remanded in custody for sodomising 10 pupils in separate incidents. Nkosiyazi Sibanda appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Collet Ncube facing 17 charges of aggravated indecent assault and was remanded in custody to February 21. Sibanda, who pleaded guilty to the charge,…
GWERU – Two Wha Wha Prison inmates have been hauled before the courts to answer sodomy charges after they were allegedly caught pants down during recreational time. Pardon Musindo Jumo, 21, and Taurai Pikita, 24, appeared before Gweru magistrate Sithembiso Ncube on Monday to answer allegations of sodomy as defined in Section 73 of the…
HARARE – The US government has requested that a regional advisor be sent to Zimbabwe to assess the impact of the Tokwe Mukorsi basin disaster. In an interview with the Daily News on Friday, Karen Kelley, counsellor for public affairs at the US Embassy, said they would be sending in, the advisor through the USAid…
HARARE – A Taxi driver suspected to be a ringleader of a syndicate of armed robbers that have terrorised Harare has appeared in court. Christopher Chadambuka, 24, of 544 Old Canaan, Highfield, appeared in court on Monday facing five counts of robbery and three charges of unlawful entry in aggravating circumstances. He appeared before Harare…
HARARE – A woman yesterday told the court that her husband, who is staying with a girlfriend, forces her to have unprotected sex against her will. Joanna Mutubwe told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that her husband Dickson Nyamaropa physically and verbally abuses her, forcing her to make love to him. She was seeking a protection order…
HARARE – Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo should be applauded for setting the pace by taking immediate and courageous action to reverse an appointment he had made. Other ministers of lesser mettle would have shirked from remedying the potentially contagious flaw without batting an eyelid. The immediate withdrawal of Dennis Magaya’s appointment…
HARARE – As soon as news came that the Tokwe-Mukorsi Dam was in trouble and the wall was reportedly bursting, Zimbabwe’s two predictable knee-jerk responses were immediately proffered: first the begging bowl and then the denials. “The EU must send helicopters,” was one of the first reports we heard while the experts were calculating how…
