ALL eyes will be on reigning champions FC Platinum and big-spending Dynamos today as the 2023 edition of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League roars to life with four matches taking place in three of the country’s urban centres. Dynamos, who are bidding for a first top flight title since 2014, are up against premiership…
THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has suspended Vision Leaf Tobacco Company, a contracting firm, from operating over charges of failing to follow proper procedures. Tobacco contractors are service providers who provide farming inputs, chemicals and machinery during the cropping season. The suspension of Vision Leaf Tobacco comes at a time when the tobacco…
AS EXPECTED, Zanu PF has deferred its internal polls which were scheduled for this weekend, to allow the party enough time to vet the slew of CVs submitted by people from all walks of life aspiring to represent it in this year’s crunch elections. In this regard, the party’s politburo will meet in Harare on…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has extended its voter registration blitz by five days. This is to allow more prospective voters to register for the country’s beckoning crunch national elections. This comes after the elections management body’s current blitz was last week disrupted by power cuts and bad weather.Zec is targeting to register more than…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, has granted an order declaring that the clause used by the Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition MDC’s congress to expel its vice president, Elias Mudzuri, on January 21, 2023 is constitutionally invalid. Clause 11 of the party’s constitution provides that the outfit’s members who take matters to the court and the…
EMELDA Marizani, a Chivhu woman who was arrested in 2020 for killing four of her daughters in cold blood, has been found guilty and convicted by the High Court and she will be sentenced on March 24. Marizani was facing quadruple murder charges after she slit her daughters’ throats and set the house on fire….
Nyasha Kunyiswa GOVERNMENT has appealed for the private sector to prioritise private-public partnerships to improve the public’s access to healthcare services, especially in physiotherapy. Speaking at the reopening of a US$57 000 St Giles Rehabilitation Centre’s hydrotherapy pool in Milton Park Harare yesterday, Maxwell Hove chief director curate services in the Health ministry said the…
ZIMBABWE have announced a full-strength squad for the three-match one-day international (ODI) series against the Netherlands in Harare next week. With Sikandar Raza and Ryan Burl back from their franchise cricket commitments abroad, the side has also been bolstered by the return from injury of Sean Williams, Tendai Chatara and Blessing Muzarabani. The five players…
A 40-YEAR-OLD man from Nyandeni village under chief Mathema in Gwanda North, Matabeleland South province, has been arrested for allegedly killing his…
By Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE government of Zimbabwe yesterday received Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment worth US$288 000 from the European Union (EU) to improve trade and cooperation between the two. The equipment that will benefit government ministries and agencies, including the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) included 71 laptops, 10 heavy duty printers, 45 desktop…
