A CHIVHU woman, Emelda Marizani — who killed her four daughters in cold blood in 2020 — has been sentenced to four life terms in prison. Marizani was convicted of the gruesome murder of her children last Friday, after she poisoned them, slit their throats and then set the house that they were in on…
By Yvonne Ncube THE government says it has come up with strategies to boost rural education through promotion of a flexible recruitment exercise which allows teachers to work in their own rural areas. This comes at a time many teachers have been shunning rural areas owing to a number of reasons, working conditions included.Speaking to…
YOUTH across Zimbabwe’s 10 districts accounted for 76 percent of political violence in the last three months, according to a study conducted by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC). This comes amid growing concerns that political violence could mar this year’s harmonised elections.The study titled the “Zimbabwe National Pulse Report” sought to analyse Zimbabwe’s political…
NATIONAL Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) has started rolling out a three-month nationwide “State of the Arts tour” aimed at collecting information on the activities of the different stakeholders in the sector. The tour commenced on Tuesday at Rimuka Hall in Kadoma in Mashonaland West and a second meeting was hosted in Marondera, Mashonaland East…
WOMEN have been implored to contest for political office in the harmonised elections, due later this year, to ensure their issues are…
By Ketty Nyoni HARARE City Council (HCC) has expressed fears that it might not be able to contain cholera should there be an outbreak owing to its deteriorating Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) situation. This comes as the local authority has so far recorded its first suspected cholera case since the disease was reported in…
By Yvonne Ncube PROMINENT Bulawayo lawyer Mwelinkululeko Ncube, 42, is back in court on allegations of raping his widowed client who had sought his legal services in 2019. Ncube was arrested the same year and appeared in court then. He was back in court yesterday after being served with summons. He appeared before Bulawayo regional…
WESSLY Madhevere became only the third Zimbabwean to take an ODI hat-trick as the Chevrons edged Netherlands by a single run at Harare Sports Club yesterday to level the three-match Dafabet ODI series at 1-1. The Chevrons’ win means the series, which is part of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League, now heads…
FOR a long time now, the government and Zesa have been giving Zimbabweans hope that the power challenges afflicting the country will soon be a thing of the past as they bring on board Hwange units 7 and 8 soon. However, there seems to be no end in sight as consumers continue to reel under…
THE government has warned civil servants against leaving their workplace before completing their working hours in order to secure shuttle buses for cheap transportation. Civil servants are provided shuttle buses by the government where they pay token fares which are more advantageous than using public transport. In a circular dated March 15 addressed to all…
