THE government yesterday launched the national renewable energy and biofuels policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and promote investments at a time when the country is struggling with persistent energy deficits that have been exacerbated by the economic meltdown. The newly-launched national renewable energy policy aims to promote investment in the renewable sector…
A SENIOR Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) officer has approached the High Court challenging the decision of a court martial that jailed him for 18 months for missing lectures after he enrolled for a Geography and Environment Science programme at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). Fadziso Abraham Dupwa, a flight lieutenant and commissioned officer with…
OPPOSITION MDC MPs have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration of reversing the land reform programme by seizing idle land from black people for redistribution to white Zimbabweans, the Daily News reports. The move was introduced by government through Statutory Instrument (SI) 62 of 2020 which was gazetted last Friday, giving Mnangagwa powers to give land…
AS THE deadly coronavirus continues to spread and to wreak havoc around the world, health experts are concerned about Zimbabwe’s readiness to deal with the pandemic, the Daily News reports. This is despite the raft of measures that were announced on Tuesday by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to combat the disease, as well as ongoing assurances…
SOUTH Africa yesterday saw another jump in coronavirus cases — with 116 now confirmed as the country introduces new measures to shut its borders and schools across the country. The numbers are still rising sharply from one case a fortnight ago. Most of those with the virus brought it back from abroad — from the…
PROMINENT businessman and Affirmative Action Group (AAG) founder Philip Chiyangwa has been appointed to sit in two parliamentary portfolio committees. The Zvimba South Member of Parliament will sit in the Felix Mhona-chaired Budget, Finance and Economic Development portfolio committee that is responsible for overseeing the Finance and Economic Development ministry and its handling of Budget…
A CHIPINGE man had his arm chopped off with a machete last Saturday evening in a fight over a sim card. Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the incident. Boniface Ziaphela, 34, lost his arm after it was allegedly cut off by Moffat Sithole, 33, who was part of a four-man gang now facing…
SIX armed robbers who allegedly shot and killed a popular local businessman — Kumbirai Kumbula — were early on Sunday morning involved in an accident along the Mutare-Masvingo highway as they fled in a stolen vehicle. The robbers escaped unhurt when they crashed the Honda Fit they had stolen from the businessman near 22 Miles…
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has accused MDC leader Nelson Chamisa of “hypocrisy” by meddling in council affairs after the party locked out mayor Solomon Mguni and five councillors from the provincial headquarters. However, opposition party provincial spokesperson Swithern Chirowodza insisted that the MDC was not interfering in council business but was “distancing itself…
THE late paramount chief Khayisa Ndiweni’s widow and mother to dethroned chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, pictured, has died. She was 96. Agnes Masuku died in the early hours of yesterday morning at the family homestead in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North Province following a short illness, the family said in a statement. “It is with deep sadness…
