By Emmanuel Marambe FOUR-TIME Castle Lager Premiership champions FC Platinum are not be paying any attention to the talk of a historic quintet of league titles, when the 2023 campaign commences later this month. The Zvishavane-based side, made history last season by becoming only the third Zimbabwean football club to lift four successive championships after…
LAST Thursday, the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) and the nation at large was plunged into mourning after five first year students at the university perished in a horrific car accident along the Masvingo-Mbalabala Road. The Toyota Wish they were travelling in was involved in a head on collision with a UD truck….
PARLIAMENT has expressed concerns over the proliferation of fuel service stations close to residential areas, saying they pose a threat to human lives. Speaking in the Senate last week, Zanu PF Masvingo senator Tichinani Mavetera said a number of service stations were constructed in residential areas and this had a risk of endangering human lives….
FARMERS are calling upon the government to review upwards producer prices, which were set earlier this year, saying this will enable them to go back to the fields next cropping season. This comes as the government pegged the pre-planting producer prices for a tonne of maize at US$335, soya beans US$597,59 and sunflower at US$687,23,…
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for a five-member gang that allegedly drugged and raped a 14-year-old girl after luring her to their house. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the development yesterday. “Police can confirm an incident where a Form Two girl was drugged and raped by five men after they convinced…
THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Priscilla Chigumba, has accused some of her colleagues of operating in breach of their mandates and holding clandestine meetings, as cracks at the elections’ management body widen. In an extraordinary letter to all Zec commissioners on February 22, Chigumba accused some commissioners of coming up with dubious…
BUYING a property with West Property is investing into a lifestyle that transcends generations, says property mogul Ken Sharpe. “We are not…
By Brandon Josphat THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it is not involved in nefarious activities and does not have links to people who are alleged to have implicated the apex bank in their illegal dealings in a documentary said to be planned for release by a major global broadcaster. Reacting to widely-circulated snippets…
BY NYASHA KUNYISWA THE country is faced with a critical shortage of blood group O, which is in high demand in the country, the National Blood Services (NBSZ) has said. This comes after the NBSZ has been facing serious blood shortages for the past year, which has resulted in delays in operations at major referral…
By Ketty Nyoni THE Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) has urged Parliament to put pressure on the government to ensure fairness when they negotiate civil servants’ conditions of service. Giving oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Service, ZCPSTU secretary general David Dzatsunga said the government was the one dictating…
