© Farmers have been given the greenlight to plant the country’s first industrial hemp (mbanje) crop this season, a full year after government invited applications for licences to grow cannabis for medical and research purposes, a government official said on yestersday [GoogleAd] With a growing clamour that has seen more than 170 countries signing the…
© The High Court has been asked to intervene in a nasty inheritance row between the two wives of the late Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku. [GoogleAd] Chidyausiku died in May 2017, hardly three months after stepping down as the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and head of the judiciary. He died aged…
© Tendai Munyanduri’s opposition National Patriotic Front (NPF) has launched a “formula” for Zimbabwe’s recovery, saying scientific leadership was a precondition for ending the decades-old economic meltdown and breaking the dominance of the ruling Zanu PF. [GoogleAd] Munyanduri, who dismally lost last year’s presidential election, has launched a National Development Plan (NDP) blueprint dubbed NEPROIP,…
© The widow of slain activist Kelvin Tinashe Choto has filed a lawsuit against the Home Affairs minister and police boss for the murder of her husband during unrest linked to food and fuel shortages in January. Varaidzo Chiyanike, who is being represented by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, filed the suit at the…
© Zimbabwe power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) will get an additional 400 megawatts of power from South Africa after entering a payment plan, Energy minister Fortune Chasi said yesterday. Zesa supplies more than 90 percent of the power in Zimbabwe but has failed to pay its debts for power imports, with the main hydro-electric power…
© Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has completed medical tests, paving way for the commencement of his treatment, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday. Chiwenga, who is suffering from an unknown ailment, was recently flown to China to receive further treatment after being detained in South Africa for some time. [GoogleAd] He went to China for specialist…
DISEASE outbreak fears have gripped City of Kings as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has lately been struggling to collect refuse due to an acute shortage of fuel. For the past two weeks and because of the fuel shortages, BCC has failed to deploy its refuse collection trucks to most suburbs including the low density…
© A Plumtree man who is part of nine suspects in the foiled Plumtree deal involving nearly $1 million worth of gold kept as an exhibit has been jailed for four years after being convicted of interfering with State investigations. Jefat Chaganda, 51, was arrested for his alleged involvement in the theft of 28kg of…
© NHIMBE Trust welcomes Bulawayo’s annual Intwasa Arts Festival which has announced its theme for the 2019 edition as “Spring Fever.” This year’s edition is about looking forward to better things and celebrating what the country, and by extension humanity at large, has gone through and wishes for the future. Intwasa 2019 is set to…
© The 2019 University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Research Week kicked off on Monday at the main campus in Harare with the launch of an innovation hub. The theme for this year’s research symposium is “Championing Demand-Driven Research and Innovation for industrial and Societal Solutions: Rallying towards Vision 2020”. [GoogleAd] Speaking to delegates and students at…
