DAVID Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), has warned that the conflict in Ukraine could send global food prices soaring,…
A GUTU veterinary officer Kudzai Murima, 34, has been sentenced to 45 years in jail for cattle rustling. Murima was found guilty of five counts of stock theft by Masvingo magistrate Mandlenkosi Ndlovu and was slapped with the mandatory nine-year jail term for each beast. His alleged accomplices, nabbed recently, are yet to be tried….
DESPITE the government reviewing upwards allowances for its employees in the health delivery system, health workers still feel their employer’s gesture was half-hearted as it fell short of their expectations. This comes after the authorities have increased allowances for health workers as they bid to lift morale within the public service. Senior Hospital Doctors Association…
A 26-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for an effective two years for stealing a car at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport before driving on the runway as he sought an exit point. Shingirai Austin Shangu broke into the airport parking through the fence before taking control of the car which had been left by…
In honour of International Women’s Day, the CHINA Africa Economic and Culture Exchange Research Centre (CAECERC) gathered in Mbare with a group…
Cloud Fusire CAPS United forward William Manondo has thrown down the gauntlet on himself to breach the 20-goal mark jinx in the Castle Lager Premiership this year. The local premiership is yet to witness anybody eclipsing the 20-goal mark for over a decade now in a major indictment of the chronic shortage of strikers in…
ZANU PF’S co-vice president Kembo Mohadi struck the right chord at the weekend when he spoke of the need to foster peace and unity as a catalyst to social and economic development. Disunity breeds all sorts of problems, especially tribalism and regionalism, leading in inequalities and civil strife. Mohadi raised concern at a rally of…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has postponed the decommissioning of Umzingwane Dam, one of the city’s main water supply dams. The dam still has water enough to last a few more weeks. It was initially set for decommissioning at the weekend. Speaking to Daily News yesterday, BCC public relations officer Bongiwe Ngwenya said water levels at the dam…
PARLIAMENTARIAN Job Sikhala says he will continue piling pressure on the State to prosecute or free him after a regional magistrate once again declined to let him go. Sikhala is accused of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State emanating from a post he allegedly made on Facebook involving a scuffle between a cop and a…
