THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has turned down a request by war veterans to be prioritised in all the local authority’s empowerment programmes, as the relationship between the two entities continue to deteriorate. The move comes after Local government minister July Moyo, in September last year, dispatched a six member team to the second largest…
Tinashe Nekati GLOW Petroleum has partnered the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ) with goods sponsorship worth US$10 000 towards the Walk Project that aims to raise funds to support the visually-impaired and children living with albinism. The fuel giant chipped in with the donation as part of the fundraising sponsored walk from Nashville Gweru to Harare…
Andile Tshuma A 12-YEAR-OLD girl was allegedly drugged before being raped by her father while visiting him for the festive holidays. The incident happened last Thursday in Bulawayo’s Mzilikazi suburb. The girl’s father is a 38 year-old Mzilikazi man whose identity is being withheld to protect the minor. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya MUKUVISI Woodlands in Harare on Saturday was robbed of money and valuables amounting to US$19 040 after 10 armed robbers pounced on the premises. It is alleged that around 1am, the suspects, who were armed with an unknown rifle, catapults, hammers and iron bars, stormed Mukuvisi Woodlands before capturing two guards and a…
Melisa Chatikobo DESPITE new pre-planting producer prices for cotton that separate private funded and government funded production, outstanding payments, inadequate inputs and high cost of production is a threat to the growers viability. Last week the Agriculture Marketing Authority announced new 2021/22 agricultural season cotton prices. Cotton produced under the Pfumvudza scheme is priced at…
Dionne Kanyowa A HARARE man appeared in court for allegedly pointing a pistol to a vehicle that had three juveniles while looking for his girlfriends. The state alleges on January 3 this year, around 4 am Tanyaradzwa Mashonganyika, 29 in the company another person went to a house in Glen View where he saw Tabeth…
Andile Tshuma A 23-YEAR-OLD woman who works as a sex worker has been arrested after she allegedly offered her services to two minor boys. Nothabo Siziba of Bulawayo’s Emthunzini suburb allegedly had a three-some with the boys at her home. She appeared before Western Commonage resident magistrate Shephered Munjanja charged with having sexual intercourse with…
IT was a hit song that catapulted him to national prominence and true to the lyrics in that tune, Tocky Vibes has…
AMID the MDC’s unrelenting and futile wars, the leader of the United Movement for Devolution (UMD), Lovemore Moyo, has once again warned that the opposition stands no chance against Zanu PF in next year’s national elections unless it urgently forms a viable grand coalition. The respected Moyo — a former Speaker of Parliament and MDC…
ANOTHER bruising war among MDC factions could be in the offing after it emerged at the weekend that the group led by Nelson Chamisa may have finally settled on a new name and is set to use this in the March 26 by-elections. But the Chamisa camp’s plans could run into headwinds after it was…
