April 2019

THE Lands, Agriculture and Rural settlement minister Perrance Shiri has commended the Command Agriculture scheme saying it has improved input access and tillage services in the country. Command Agriculture is an import substitution-led industrialisation concept deliberately meant to empower local cereal crop producers and in the process boost capacity for locals and create employment for…

JUDGMENT has been reserved in an application for review made by suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe for Hwange magistrate Collet Ncube to recuse himself from presiding over his criminal abuse of office trial. Guvamombe claims that his subordinates are bent on succeeding him and have exhibited personal and financial interests for his office that an…

A CITY pharmacist has been fined $1 100 after he was busted with a consignment of counterfeit and dangerous drugs worth $500 000. Teddy Kuda Chindedza, who runs TICC Pharmaceuticals in Waterfalls, was also caught with medicine suspected to be stolen from a government warehouse. [GoogleAd] Chindedza was charged with two counts of violating the…

MDC Bulawayo province surprisingly pushed down Welshman Ncube to the secretary-general post instead of the vice presidency where other provinces have nominated him for. Most people had though that Bulawayo, which is Ncube’s home city would nominate him for the VP post. [GoogleAd] The election which was reportedly marred by reports of election rigging and…

ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) said as it joined the rest of the country yesterday in “celebrating” Independence Day, workers look back with sadness over dashed hopes. ZCTU said they sympathise with those who feel cheated by some leaders of the liberation struggle who have thrust themselves into the thrones of the former masters…