THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has provided a helicopter to support the relief efforts in the Eastern Highlands following the devastating impact of Cyclone Idai earlier this month. The helicopter (Mi-8AMT), operated by the World Food Programme (WFP), started its mission yesterday from Mutare. It can transport up to three metric tonnes or 19 people and…
A TEACHER based in Matabeleland North who lost his job after he fell in love with a student and impregnated her, yesterday appealed against his employer’s decision before the Supreme Court, arguing the Labour Court made an unjust ruling to his matter. Mxolisi Mhlanga, a former teacher at Majiji High School had no legal representation…
POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-general Gift Kallisto Machengete has successfully applied for the temporary release of his passport to allow him to travel for a scheduled government conference in Tanzania. [GoogleAd] Machengete is accused of violating the provisions of the Procurement Act after the State dropped the $1,4 million criminal abuse charge last…
A 38 year-old Harare man who was caught in possession of 29 bags of mbanje weighing 700 kilogrammes in April last year has been convicted of the offence. Ranganai Samhembere was busted by police officers as he transported the drugs with a street value of $49 000 in his private vehicle. [GoogleAd] Samhembere was charged…
THE High Court in Bulawayo has ordered the Hwange Magistrates’ Court to temporarily stop prosecution of seven Chinese nationals who are being charged with possessing ivory and money laundering pending a review of their application for discharge. The seven are Zeng Denghui, 18, Peicong Wang, 35, Lin Cheng, 23, Yu Xian, 25, Long Zhu, 23,…
ZIMBABWE Post Properties (Pvt) Ltd (Post Properties) is claiming $61 000 rental arrears from Family of God church leader Andrew Wutawunashe. [GoogleAd] Post Properties, which is the owner of Gweru Post Office cubicle 2 sometime in 2015 entered a lease agreement with Wutawunashe that commenced on July 1, 2016. The lease agreement was that Wutawunashe…
ONLY four out of 11 wetlands in Gokwe North are still functional with the rest having been depleted by stream bank cultivation. In an interview with the Daily News, Environmental Management Agency (Ema) district environmental officer Allan Machenjedze said because the region is dry many people opt to farm where water is easily accessible and…
SUNDAY should just have been a day to celebrate the achievements of the senior men’s soccer team, the Warriors — for securing a berth at this year’s African Cup of Nations — to be held in Egypt in three months’ time. The Warriors’ victory deserved to be savoured with merriment befitting a nation that had…
OVERNIGHT, Mozambique’s second-largest city disappeared. All the lights in Beira went off. Its buildings vanished under six metres of water. Its roads were washed away, its bridges were torn from their foundations, and its people — well, still no one knows how many of its people survived. [GoogleAd] They huddled together on the roofs of…
EDITOR — The political trajectory in Zimbabwe is disturbing. Zimbabweans both home and in the Diaspora have been taken for another gruesome ride under the Zanu PF government which has since exhibited it’s failures to take this economy to a sound level. We have a huge task to accomplish as true sons and daughters of…
