THE Supreme Court yesterday freed from prison former Zanu PF MP for Bikita, Munyaradzi Kereke on $500 000 bail pending appeal having been incarcerated since 2016 for raping his 11-year-old niece. Kereke, who also served as advisor to former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono, was jailed five years ago after Harare magistrate…
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has raised concern over the increasing number of murder cases across the country in which most of the perpetrators and victims would be violating Covid-19 lockdown measures. Most of the killings are occurring at bottle stores and illegal drinking spots where small arguments are seemingly turning violent and fatal. This…
THE Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPA) has warned citizens from purchasing unapproved Covid-19 self-test kits from pharmacies, saying the kits are producing erroneous results. At the same time, the authority has cautioned unscrupulous medicine suppliers that they risk being deregistered if they continue with the practice. This came out during a tour of pharmacies…
EIGHT Chitungwiza residents, who claim to be the joint owners of Braemer Farm in Seke, have filed an urgent chamber application seeking to stop the sale of the land to a third party by the local authority. This comes after the Chitungwiza Municipality on July 27 circulated a statement on social media directing people to…
In its 10th year of recognizing great app development, this year the MTN Business App of the Year competition will be giving away…
FC PLATINUM coach Norman Mapeza has admitted his charges will have a tough task in the African Safari due to inadequate preparations as the country is currently battling a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes as there is no competitive football in the country after the government banned all sporting activities in new…
A HARARE man lost US$420 to a sangoma in a money making ritual, prompting him to cause his arrest. Lloyd Malunga has since been charged with fraud and has been denied bail by Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga. It is alleged that on July 23, Malunga acting in connivance with John Banda and Ntotera Vokhiwa, who are…
THE Airports Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) board has appointed Tawanda Gusha as the firm’s first substantive chief executive with a mandate to ensuring the company contributes to the government’s National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1). ACZ board chairperson Devnanda Popatlal yesterday said Gusha’s appointment would bring a new dimension to the company which is responsible for…
EXPELLED Zanu PF youth leader, Godfrey Tsenengamu, has advised MDC Alliance boss Nelson Chamisa that he risks being left politically isolated if he does not join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform immediately. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the forthright and hard-nosed Tsenengamu said Polad offered Chamisa an opportunity to be part of the much-talked about…
CHALLENGES affecting the operations of Zimbabwe’s women entrepreneurs will be the subject of discussion at a webinar to be hosted via zoom on Friday by the CEO Africa Roundtable. The forthcoming webinar, which will be the second edition of the Women’s Business Leadership Roundtable 2021, seeks to build women business leaders with expertise in, among…
