Rumbidzai Ngwenya TWO minors aged two and three years old died on Wednesday after a room they were sleeping in caught fire at Taisekwa Shopping Centre in Stoneridge Park, Harare. Police told the Daily News yesterday that Monica Chigunde, 41, who is the mother of Tanaka Mashinga, 3, and grandmother to Nenyaysha Shato, 2, left…
Tamary Chikiwa XITSONGA speaking people in Chiredzi and Mwenezi have banned forced initiation of young girls, a cultural practice which local traditional leaders said has been fuelling child marriages. This comes as the country is currently grappling with child marriages, with culture being cited as one of the various contributing factors. According to the Xitsonga…
COUNCILLORS have called for a ban of rituals at Bulawayo City cemeteries as they are causing unnecessary congestion during burials. According to latest full council minutes, Bulawayo city fathers said graveside different cultural and religious rites carried on gravesides by bereaved families prior to burial were time consuming resulting in failure to stick to their…
MANDLA Mpofu is facing an uphill task to keep his Highlanders job ahead of the team’s visit to Sakubva Stadium on Sunday to face newboys Tenax in a must-win Castle Lager Premiership match. The Bulawayo giants’ poor start to the 2021/2022 season, which has yielded just one win and two draws from five matches, has…
GOSPEL musician Mambo Dhuterere who turns 30 today, has described his flourishing music career as a consequence of God’s favour. Born Darlington Mutseta in Chimbumu village in Guruve, Mambo Dhuterere hit the big time three years ago largely on account of his songs such as Dare Guru, which attacks some church leaders for making money through duping…
POLITICAL developments in recent weeks, among them violence and spewing of hate speech, demand introspection by the country’s leadership to avoid plunging the nation into anarchy. As we inch towards the March 26 by-elections and the fast-approaching 2023 harmonised polls, there is now an urgent need for a national all-inclusive dialogue to map the way…
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, yesterday appointed an interim board of trustees of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) which he mandated to curb illicit plundering of heritage resources. The looting of cultural heritage refers to the unrecorded destruction of archaeological sites in order to get artefacts for sale on the illicit market….
FORMER State security minister Didymus Mutasa’s company, Muungwe Investments, has lost 110 hecatres of its land to minority shareholder, Mabel Dete, after using the firm’s assets to secure a US$1million personal loan. Dete approached the High Court seeking compensation for her shares in the company in the form of 110 hectares of land as agreed…
Shamaine Chirimujiri A HARARE woman appeared in court yesterday on charges of human trafficking after she allegedly lured several Zimbabwean women to Oman on the pretext that she would facilitate their employment there as house maids. Tendai Muswe, 29, who allegedly promised the women lucrative salaries, was reported to the police by one of the victims…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya POLICE yesterday raided three Harare properties, including the home of prominent preacher Walter Magaya. Authoritative sources told the Daily News last night that a team of detectives, military officers and CIO operatives swooped on Magaya’s residence in Mt Pleasant at the crack of dawn. Law enforcement agents would only say the raids entailed “investigations on…
