THE Presidential Cotton Inputs scheme has revived cotton farming with Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) expecting US$34 million increase in export earnings…
THE newly-rebranded Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) scrambled to play down simmering tensions among its bigwigs yesterday over candidates for the March 26 by-elections. This comes as the party’s controversial decision to choose its candidates through “consensus” continues to raise temperatures — resulting in the troubling fielding of double contenders in Bulawayo and Masvingo on…
POPULAR dancer Selemani Mpochi, popularly known as Majuice for his trade at musician Alick Macheso’s band, has been cleared of rape charges. Majuice, who stood accused of violating his 17-year-old girlfriend, was acquitted of the charge yesterday when he appeared before regional magistrate Kudakwashe Mhene. The court ruled that there were inconsistencies in the evidence…
A NKAYI man has been arrested after he allegedly raped a fellow passenger during a journey recess when the bus they were travelling in broke down. Clever Tshuma, whose age was not given, but resides in Bulawayo’s Waterford suburb, allegedly raped the girl whose name has been withheld last Thursday as they were both travelling…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is going to continue with the foreign currency auction system as a dependable source of foreign currency for the productive sectors of the economy, governor John Mangudya has said. This comes amid calls for the central bank to return to the interbank market following a slew of allotment…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Owen Tagu, yesterday reserved judgment in the matter in which Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, pictured, filed a chamber application seeking the termination of his marriage to estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa. The chamber application was filed with the High Court in November last year with Chiwenga seeking the termination of his customary…
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo, accused of bribing councillors to vote him into office in the 2018 Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) elections, wants the charges dropped. Kamambo is alleged to have sent mobile money to Zifa councillors for their votes in an election he edged former association president, Phillip Chiyangwa, who is the complainant in the…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya and Andile Tshuma THE financial crunch ravaging most local authorities has seen most of them, including Harare and Bulawayo, suffering an acute shortage of ambulances and fire engines. In Harare, the municipality now only has two on-the-road ambulances and six fire engines servicing a population estimated at more than two million people. “The…
A recent story published by The Guardian alleged that Chinese companies involved in granite mining in Zimbabwe have aroused fear and upset…
GOVERNMENT through the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) has started compensating small depositors who suffered losses due to the 2019 exchange rate movement….
