THE country’s power crisis is set to ease as from later this month, with authorities finally getting ready to switch on Hwange Power Station’s new 300 megawatt Unit 7, while Unit 8 is scheduled to come on stream in June — adding a further 300 MW to the grid. At the same time, under pressure…
By Rutendo Ngara THE European Union (EU) has committed €207 million to Zimbabwe to support smart agriculture in the country and promote national food security. Speaking in Harare yesterday, EU head of delegation in the country, Jobst Von Kirchmann said Zimbabwe is one of the countries bearing the brunt of climate change and there was…
ACTING National Social Security Authority (Nssa) general manager Charles Shava, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly defrauding the organisation of over $12 million, was yesterday granted $500 000 bail by a Harare magistrate. He appeared before magistrate Stanley Mambanje who ordered him to surrender his passport as part of the bail conditions. Shava is…
By Rutendo Ngwenya LEADING food processor, National Foods Limited (NFL), yesterday donated food stuff worth thousands of dollars to four children charities in Harare. The four beneficiaries were Runyararo Orphanage, Homefield Centre, Ruvimbo Special School and Felly Orphanage. Each organisation received rice, mealie-meal, porridge, popcorn, sugar beans, baked beans, biscuits and flour, among other items….
By Yvonne Ncube AUTHORITIES in Matabeleland South province have called on the government to intervene in stopping the fast-spreading child-to-child marriages in the region. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday on the sidelines of the Dabane Trust meeting organised by villagers in Tshilanyemba, ward 7 councillor Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu said what was worrying was that the…
WITH the cost of living continuing to rise in the country, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has revealed that one person now needs nearly $30 000 for basic needs monthly. According to Zimstat director-general Taguma Mahonde for the month of February, inflation averaged over 92 percent. “The Total Consumption Poverty Line (TPL) is derived…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Christopher DubeBanda, has tossed out an application for his recusal as the presiding judge in the murder trial of fellow judge Garainesu Mawadze’s son, Munyaradzi Mawadze. Munyaradzi Mawadze was arrested in 2020 after he and his friends, Elvis Dongo Saungweme and Dellon David Balami, allegedly murdered a Harare cellphone dealer, Sipho…
By Ashley Moyo SOUTH Africa-based socialite Anitta Neshiri has been nominated for the Forty Under 40 Africa award in the category of Community Development. This year’s edition of the awards, scheduled for March 25 in South Africa, is made up of 126 nominees from 24 African countries including South Africa, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Nigeria, Algeria,…
By Black EdwardFOR crying out loud! Please tell those young people to pull up their trousers. Eer… on second thoughts, it would be pointless. They most certainly won’t listen. Youths being youths, they are wont to do the exact opposite of what you instruct them to do, as everyone who remembers their teenage years can…
By Black EdwardAN American journalist and author, Finley Peter Dunne, asserts that the past always appears to be better than it was; It only makes things nice because it isn’t here. That can, however, be disputed, right? While some people believe that you shouldn’t look back, others believe that our past experiences may be a…
