HARARE – The Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) wants government to introduce a driving curriculum in schools. Appearing before the portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development on the causes of road accidents, Joseph Pedzapasi, the VID chief inspector, said his department had come up with a 10-year strategy in which children at kindergarten level are…
HARARE – Five people died while more than 400 hundred families were evacuated between December and January, according to the department of civil protection. According to information from the civil protection department, several homesteads were destroyed across the country due to heavy rains being experienced across the country. The civil protection unit has also issued…
HARARE – Independent End Time Message founder and pastor Robert Martin Gumbura plans to appeal his conviction and 50-year sentence, his lawyer Rekai Maposa said.
HARARE – Music star Selmor Mtukudzi and comedian Carl Joshua Ncube will hold a rare joint concert at the 7 Arts Theatre on March 28. Apart from music and comedy, the concert will also see the two artistes release a collaborative song that they are currently working on. “Selmor came up with the idea. She…
HARARE – Several leading musicians will grace a concert to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the death of smoko music founder Fanuel ‘System’ Tazvida at the Book Café on Saturday. The weekend event, expected to be attended by leading musicians, including Alick Macheso, Suluman Chimbetu, Kiren Zulu and Nicholas Zakaria, will pay fitting homage to…
BULAWAYO – Musicians Jeys Marabini and Sandra Ndebele have released songs that urge drivers to exercise caution on the roads in line with the ambassadorial status bestowed on them by the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe. The two celebrated Bulawayo artistes, who were appointed ambassadors for the Southern Region by the Traffic Safety Council of…
HARARE – Distressed Agricultural Bank of Zimbabwe Limited (Agribank) says it will soon float a tender to dispose of a 49 percent stake to private investors valued at $70 million following an evaluation of the financial institution. The agro-bank — wholly owned by government — has been failing to perform its key mandate of providing…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has been ranked among the riskiest mining investment destinations despite its vast mineral wealth, a study has revealed. According to a report entitled Mining in Africa Country Investment Guide, specially produced for the African Mining Indaba underway in Cape Town, South Africa, the southern African nation — holding the second largest known…
HARARE – The recent reinstatement of Harare city’s town clerk, Tendai Mahachi by Local Government, Public Works minister Ignatius Chombo has been met with anger and disappointment from social and political commentators who believe it smacks of a cover-up. Mahachi was last week suspended for three months to pave way for investigations into the council’s…
EDITOR — I wonder why there is silence from our respected President on the uncovering of a series of pay scandals at several parastatals. Not so long ago, I racall the president castigating and vowing to stamp out corruption in his government. He even went further to point out the case of Godwills Masimirembwa’s alleged…
