Government has reviewed salaries of domestic workers to $500 from $170. This was revealed by deputy Labour minister Lovemore Matuke during a question and answer session in the Senate last week while responding to a question from MDC Senator Theresa Makone. Makone had asked whether the government felt that with the current hardships being faced…
PASSENGERS have raised concern over the frequency of accidents involving public transporters, a development that claim people’s lives and left many injured. For the past two weeks, more than 10 people have been killed in separate bus accidents across the country, a development hugely attributed to poor roads and driver behaviour. “As passengers, we feel…
CASES of theft and vandalism of water meters have increased significantly over the past week as thieves are after the brass in them, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has said. Zinwa said the problem was rampant countrywide, with Chivhu the most affected. “In recent days we have received a worryingly high number of cases…
IN A bid to stabilise the ever rising prices of goods and black market foreign exchange rates that are torpedoing the economy, authorities yesterday assured people with hard currencies that they were free to use their money as they wished, and that foreign currency accounts would not be raided, the Daily News reports. This fresh…
THE government and families of people who were slain during the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s — mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands — are at loggerheads over the official reference to the killings, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has recently stepped up its efforts to try and bring closure to…
THE acquittal of MDC deputy chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges last week has exposed the rift between radicals and soft-liners within the country’s biggest opposition party, political analysts have said. Sikhala was arrested in July last year after he told an MDC rally in Bikita that Mnangagwa would be overthrown before the 2023…
BUDDING musician Mathew Ngwenya gave Nkulumane 12 residents a teaser of what to expect from him after he threw a free show over the weekend. Known in the area as a local boy, Ngwenya who goes by the stage name Stshela surprised many when he showcased his talent at Colland Shopping Centre before an excited…
ALTHOUGH they play their football in the faraway Spanish top flight league — La Liga — Atletico Madrid this season have a pretty similar story like that of Harare giants Dynamos and CAPS United. Diego Simeone spent over €261 million during last summer’s transfer window bringing in eight new players including a €126 million outlay…
REIGNING World Boxing Federation middleweight champion Charles Manyuchi is scheduled to leave for Zambia next week for a month-long camp ahead of his title defence against Ugandan boxer Muhamad Sebyala on April 3, in Harare. Manyuchi won the WBF title after dismissing Argentine fighter Diego Gallardo via a third round TKO at the Harare International…
ZIMBABWE wheelchair racer Moleen Majoni won a bronze medal after finishing third at the 2020 Outeniqua Wheelchair Challenge 42,2km race in George Town, South Africa on Saturday. Although Majoni managed a podium finish, she dropped one place after finishing in second place at the same race last year. She blamed the drop on an…
