HARARE’s district Aids coordinator, Agnes Dembedza has urged adolescent girls to have the power to negotiate for safe sex when indulging with much older men. Dembedza said there is need to acknowledge that there is a lot of intergenerational sexual activity across the country which sees much young women sleeping with men twice their age….
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Mashonaland West director of Local Governance, Cecilia Chitiyo and three accomplices on charges of criminal abuse of office. Chitiyo and her team face nine counts of allegedly charging USD$5 000 as an “administrative fee” on all land developers in the province to get land for housing developments during…
Incarcerated cleric Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday passed away at Chikurubi Maximum Prison Hospital where he was serving a 20-year jail sentence for rape due to Covid-19-related complications. Gumbura, who had 11 wives and 30 children, was 65 at the time of his death. Zimbabwe Prisons and Correction Services (ZPCS) spokesperson Meya Khanyezi confirmed the RMG…
A MISCARRIAGE, otherwise known as an abortion, is by definition the loss of pregnancy (embryo or fetus) before it can survive independently….
ZIMBABWE football champions FC Platinum are hopeful their partnership with Spanish side Real Betis will open opportunities for their players to break into Europe. The collaboration will also benefit the platinum miners through the skills and knowledge exchange programmes that will see both sides visit respective on site trainings, and administration work with the aim…
MAN-of-the-moment Rockford “Roki” Josphats has been added on the growing list of musicians lined up to share the stage at this year’s edition of Simon Chimbetu commemorations set for next week Saturday. The commemorations will be held virtually on Nash TV due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “The event is going to be lit. Preparations are moving according…
ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFH) has appointed Shepherd Tapiwanashe Fungura as its new group chief executive officer (CEO). The appointment was with effect from August 1. Fungura took over from Fanuel Kapanje, who has been holding fort in an acting capacity following the resignation of group CEO Ron Mutandagayi at the end of May. He…
THE Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) has donated 40 000 litres of diesel to the Civil Protection Unit to be used by government ambulances to ferry Covid-19 patients to hospitals across the country. It also donated 270 grocery hampers worth $925 000. The donation was handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week by ICZ…
A FRESH storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with a number of the coalition’s bigwigs fiercely resisting a move by its leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, to forgo primary elections and let communities choose their parliamentary candidates for the 2023 polls. Insiders in the tension-ravaged alliance told the Daily News yesterday that the controversial plans were tabled during…
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza says women business owners must be brave enough to embrace technological innovation to boost their incomes, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic. Since the advent of the pandemic in March last year, those businesses which had already adopted an e-commerce approach have managed to stay afloat since they can interact…
