HARARE – Government has gazetted that the least paid worker in the medical and allied industry should get $330 a month after the Daily News exposed scandalously low salaries in the sector. Statutory Instrument 58 of 2014 gazette last Friday outlines new wages for workers in the medical and allied industry. “The least paid employee…
HARARE – High Court Judge Susan Mavhangira has ordered the police to stop demolitions and evictions of several families occupying Anold Farm in Mazowe. The families filed an urgent chamber application last week seeking an order interdicting the police from evicting them and that they be given six months’ grace period. Mavhangira yesterday granted the…
BULAWAYO – One of Bulawayo’s most wanted robbers, Energy Muzanenhamo, who has been on the run for four years has been brought before the courts. Magistrate Gladmore Mushove denied Muzanenhamo bail and remanded him in custody up to April 4 for his trial. It is alleged that between January and May 2008 the accused person,…
HARARE – St Michaels School in Mbare has collected over 10 000 bread bags, winning the Baker’s Inn’s Collect-4-Progress campaign. The campaign, which collected over 280 000 bread bags, was aimed at improving the environment. It involved more than 140 schools which collected bread bags that would have been disposed for recycling. David Muchinguri, Baker’s…
HARARE – Illegal occupants at Kingsdale Farm in Norton were left homeless yesterday after they were served with an eviction order, following numerous court directives. The farm owner Pieter Nicholas Nel’s lawyer Cuthbert Mpame confirmed that he had served the 145 occupants with the eviction order. The case has been in court on several occasions,…
HARARE – A sex-starved maid reportedly stripped naked in front of a gardener in an attempt to seduce him to make love to her, a Harare court heard yesterday. Emilia Chikonye reportedly undressed herself in front of Bright Machisa luring him to have sexual intercourse with her. Chikonye and Machisa are employed as maid and…
HARARE – Legislators yesterday castigated police for corruption and mismanagement of gold recovered from illegal gold dealers. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy chaired by Zanu PF MP Lovemore Matuke heard oral evidence from Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Minerals Squad led by Senior Assistant Commissioner Silas Pondo. Matuke said the public had lost…
HARARE – Religious beliefs are preventing many HIV positive patients from accessing anti-retroviral treatment, a Health ministry official has said. Angela Mushavi, ministry of Health and Child Care national Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) coordinator said they had already began engaging churches over the issue. “We may not know the numbers but we…
HARARE – Harare City Council has tasked the environment committee to look into council resources that were committed to the airport highway construction deal after the project was handed to Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara). This arose during a full council meeting last week when Mabvuku ward 19 councillor, Munyaradzi Kufahakutizwi had asked what council…
HARARE – Nigeria-based Zimbabwean musician Reinhard “RayZe’Em”e Mabika has collaborated with the west African country’s rising hip-hop star Prince Micah on a song titled Victoria Fallz. The song, which aims to sell Zimbabwe as an attractive tourist destination, is part of RayZe’Em’s big plan to sell Zimbabwean music to Africa and the world. “The initiative…
