MOROCCO’S King Mohammed VI has expressed his sadness and extended heartfelt condolences on the passing of five-year-old boy Rayan Ouram who fell…
Understanding the costs drivers in the telco industryBy Own CorrespondentA lot has been said about the Zimbabwean telecommunications industry’s apparent penchant forhiking…
‘Zim losing faith in national polls’…analysts say voter registration apathy points to this dejection
DISPUTED polls and a growing sense of seeing no value in elections generally is behind the worsening tepid response to voter registration exercises in the country, political analysts say. Among the analysts who fear that Zimbabweans are losing faith in polls are senior lecturer at South Africa’s Tshwane University of Technology, Ricky Mukonza; professor of…
Melisa Chatikobo HARARE City Council (HCC) is reeling from a serious shortage of midwives due to low remuneration and a deteriorating working environment at most of its clinics. This has seen the city’s health department operating well below capacity, with 400 midwives manning its maternity clinics instead of the required 1 000. HCC director for…
A HARARE house maid, Nollen Matondo, who was accused of stealing US$8 000 from her employer, was last week acquitted after Harare magistrate Isheunesu Matowa ruled that there was no strong evidence against her. “The evidence, which was submitted by the State was purely circumstantial evidence, confession evidence and only mere say. “It is better to acquit…
STAKEHOLDERS in the sugar bean value chain have called on the government to allow them to import the crop, as local farmers fail to satisfy the local market. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Agricultural Marketing Authority (Ama) acting director of agribusiness, Junior Manduna said they had since introduced sugar bean market linkage programmes at irrigation schemes…
Andile Tshuma A POPULAR traditional healer from Chinotimba suburb in Victoria Falls is on the run after one of his patients died after taking a concoction he had prescribed. Mara Ncube allegedly took to his heels after he got wind of the death of the patient, Foni Dube, and the hospitalisation of her husband, Raymond…
Sharmaine Chirimujiri and Rumbizai Ngwenya TWO children were found dead in a maize field in Nyandoro Village, Gokwe, after they were allegedly axed to death by their father ,who is still at large. In a tweet yesterday, police said they were still carrying out investigations, which may lead to the arrest of the 43-year-old suspect….
Dionne Kanyowa A FORMER intern at a Harare information and communications company has landed himself in trouble after he deleted the firm and customers’ database soon after he left the firm. Zealot Mukudzei Gumbo, 21, appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko last week facing charges of unauthorised access to a computer network. He was remanded out…
NEWLY formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was over the weekend plunged into further chaos after a group of its placard-wielding members in Bulawayo’s ward 26 demonstrated against the imposition of candidates. This comes after the party fielded double candidates in Masvingo and Bulawayo provinces for the March 26 council by-elections. However, one of the…
