POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a 42-year-old suspect for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl before drugging and raping her several times for 17 days. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Bulawayo police spokesperson inspector Abednico Ncube said Mkhululi Ndlovu allegedly kidnapped the minor in Nkulumane on December 8 last year before she managed to escape…
THE organiser of the Mr Ugly pageant — David “Apama” Machowa — has announced plans to bring back the popular event after a five-year hiatus. Apama told the Daily News that the contest, which has become synonymous with serial winner William Masvinu, will take place in Harare at the end of this year. “Over that…
A PRELIMINARY delimitation report produced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on December 26 last year will be tabled before Parliament tomorrow. The august House is expected to scrutinize the report for 14 days in line with the country’s supreme law and make recommendations to Mnangagwa, who will,…
SINCE the inception of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa last year, the party has faced many accusations, among them, lacking structures and ideology. The Daily News Staff Writer Ketty Nyoni recently met with party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, pictured, in Harare to discuss these and other issues affecting CCC and the nation….
THE harvesting season for both irrigated and some rainfed tobacco has begun, the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) says. This comes as the Tobacco Research Board (TRB) has said the 2022/23 production season has some early tobacco flowering that compromises the quality of the tobacco output. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, TIMB spokesperson Chelesani…
A HARARE man, who is suspected of having broken into his neighbour’s home and stolen property, has appeared before the Harare magistrates’ court. It is alleged that on December 27 2022, Blessed Masango broke into Clara Nyoni’s house in Goodhope, Westgate, Harare, and stole property valued at $652 800. According to the court documents, Masango…
Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw A BUOYANT Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says the results of last year’s parliamentary and municipal by-elections show that the party can win this year’s crunch harmonised polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, CCC national spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere also said the party was approaching the elections having factored in the probability that…
By Yvonne Ncube A LOWER Six learner at a school in Matabeleland South Province, who was recently involved in a gang robbery, has been pardoned by a Bulawayo magistrate. Mbongeni Dube, 18, from Fort Rixon, had his sentence wholly suspended when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda yesterday. Dube was charged with robbery along…
Nyasha Kunyiswakunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) says it continues to battle a serious shortage of blood, which has seen its stocks plunging to a mere day’s supply in Harare and Bulawayo. As a result, NBSZ says it has partnered with a major fuel retail company, Redan Coupon, which will give blood donors free…
THE trial of jailed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala failed to start again after the magistrates’ court yesterday postponed the matter to next Monday to allow both the prosecution and defence to file written submissions. This comes after Sikhala filed an application seeking to have his trial for allegedly inciting violence in…
