THE tobacco marketing season roars into life next month with high expectations from farmers for an improved producer price. Auction floors will start conducting sales on March 9 followed a day later by contract firms. The Zimbabwe Tobacco Growers Association is expecting that a kilogramme of tobacco should be sold between US$5 and US$6, compared…
THE Judicial Services Commission has taken steps to hasten the delivery of justice in the country by ensuring the coordination and efficient administration of criminal justice through its recently established national council. In a statement yesterday after the inaugural meeting of the council that was created last year, Chief Justice Luke Malaba said the new…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has warned that the country’s target of equal political participation between men and women will remain a pipe dream if the recent rise of political violence ahead of the upcoming general elections is not put to an end. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, ZGC chairperson, Magreth Mukahanana-Sangarwe said the…
…as SRC distances itself from National League formation Cloud FusireSPORTS WRITERfusirec@dailynews.co.zw SPORTS and Recreation Commission (SRC) chairperson Gerald Mlotshwa yesterday came out guns blazing, refuting claims that the country’s sports supreme body is behind Zifa’s controversial decision to immediately enforce the formation of National Division One league. This comes after the interim Zifa president Gift…
AMID growing concerns that political violence could mar this year’s harmonised elections, the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), says Zimbabweans need to understand that no political party or politician is worth dying or killing for. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, NPRC spokesperson Obert Gutu also reiterated that the commission would do everything in…
A POLICE officer, Osmond Tatenda Manjoro, has been remanded in custody after appearing at the Harare magistrate’s court facing criminal abuse of duty charges after allegedly arresting a suspect without an arrest warrant. In the State’s case, Malvern Chimutashu and Abel Bocho asked Manjoro, a constable at the Harare Central, to arrest Lawrence Tamayi while…
THE government has regulated a five-year prison sentence for errant fuel service stations and others who sell petroleum products above wholesale or retail prices or fail to display prices. In the latest government gazette on the pricing of petroleum products, the minister of Energy and Power Development, Zhemu Soda, came up with the regulations following…
By Ketty Nyoni OVER 2,2 million Zimbabwean youths aged between 15 and 34 are unemployed or not in school, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) has said in its 2022 fourth quarter labour force survey released on Monday. The report also indicates that females contribute a higher percentage of 57, 9) of unemployment compared to…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A 58-year-old Bulawayo businessman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping his 17-year-old niece before bribing her with US$10 to keep quiet. The accused was found guilty of two counts of rape and aggravated indecent assault by Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabiza. He was sentenced to 10 years…
INSURANCE firm, Hamilton Insurance, was recently defrauded of $317 813 by one of its employees, the Harare Magistrate’s Court heard. Insurance agent, Tendai Kumbulani Mudimbu, 33, was hauled before magistrate Dennis Mangosi on Monday, answering to the theft of trust property. Hamilton Insurance is being represented by Webster Sithole, who was responsible for selling insurance…
