Yvonne Ncube TWO suspects from Ntabazinduna, Bulawayo, who appeared in court facing unlawful entry and theft charges, have accused security guards who arrested them of stealing more than US$12 000 they had stolen. Calpher Karonga, 30, and Caston Kuchena, 42, pleaded guilty to the theft charges before Bulawayo magistrate Nomagugu Maphosa yesterday, and were remanded…
ANOTHER suspected Zanu PF supporter has appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts after he was part of a trio that allegedly assaulted Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) officials who were conducting voter education campaigns in Epworth last week. Dennis Dausi, 34, is suspected to be an accomplice of the ruling party’s Harare provincial political commissar, Kudakwashe…
By Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) and PG Industries have renovated a block comprising classrooms and bedrooms at Jairos Jiri Association Waterfalls home, Harare, at a cost of US$20 000. The roofing material was procured by PG, while the ZPCS provided free labour through its inmates undergoing rehabilitation. Speaking at the…
Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE recorded four suspected cholera deaths and one confirmed death on Monday, bringing the total to five, the Health ministry said yesterday. According to the ministry, Zimbabwe had, as of Monday, 173 recorded suspected cases, 21 confirmed cases and 157 recoveries. The confirmed cholera death was recorded in Bikita district in Masvingo…
IN today’s edition we published a story to the effect that Zimbabwe has since the beginning of the year recorded one death from cholera, 17 confirmed and 159 suspected cases of the disease 128 people recovered from the disease. The Healthy ministry has named Buhera, Chegutu, Chikomba, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Chitown, Chiredzi, Harare, Gokwe North, Marondera,…
RHUMBA artiste, Lady Storm, who stole the limelight as the main character in Jah Prayzah’s hit video for the song Eriza, released seven years ago, is banking on Congolese heavyweight Koffi Olomide for another breakthrough. This comes as Lady Storm is set to share the stage with Olomide at an event dubbed African Explosion, slated…
THE president of the Chiefs Council, Fortune Charumbira, has added his voice to the din of calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Nelson Chamisa, to engage in talks and work together in the interest of the country. Speaking on Sunday at the burial of the mother…
ZIMBABWE Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) leader Tonderai Chidawa’s court challenge against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) delimitation report suffered a stillbirth yesterday after the Constitutional Court threw out the application seeking to nullify Parliament’s acceptance of the report. Chidawa wanted the ConCourt to nullify the February acceptance of the report by Parliament, arguing that the…
JOHANNESBURG — Thousands of protesters marched through South Africa’s cities on Monday, calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign over the lack of jobs and electricity, as security forces guarded malls and streets to prevent any violence and looting. South Africans are furious about failures of the governing African National Congress (ANC) to deliver services…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa ZIMBABWE and Mozambique are collaborating in the treatment of cholera cases, which are on the rise in the neighbouring country with infected citizens crossing into Zimbabwe for treatment. Zimbabwe is also recording a spike in cholera infections, with 159 suspected cholera cases, 17 confirmed cases, 128 recoveries and one death recorded since…
