By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) wants Zesa to decentralise power supplies to the local authority’s water pumping stations and save its water pipes from further damage due to rolling power cuts. Like most parts of the country, Bulawayo is experiencing punishing daily power cuts lasting for up to 15 hours affecting both…
By Rutendo Ngara FARMERS say they will be forced to sell their produce to informal grain buyers as the 2023 marketing season starts due to low prices being offered by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), which is the sole buying agent. This comes as Zimbabwe is expected to produce a bumper harvest of 3.1 million…
IT IS harvesting season, and tobacco farmer Ian Nhata is making final preparations before transporting his golden leaf to the market in…
GLOBAL television network, Al Jazeera, last week broadcasted its first of the four episodes documentary alleging a massive gold and money laundering scam in the country. The country is reportedly losing millions, if not billions, of hard currency to cartels run by influential people, allegedly with the complicity of high-ranking officials in the government and…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere is set to know her fate on April 5 when Harare magistrate Taurai Manuwere delivers his ruling in a matter in which she is allegedly accused of communicating falsehoods. She was arrested in 2020 accused of publishing falsehoods in a case involving a woman whose child was…
MOROCCO recorded their first win over the mighty Brazil with HM King Mohammed VI’s massive investment in football key to the success…
NOT even the current and startling ‘gold mafia’ allegations could put a damper on the attendance and energy witnessed at Zanu PF’s primaries at the weekend, which the ruling party seemingly used as a show of force to the opposition ahead of this year’s crunch national elections. This comes after Zanu PF held one of…
POLICE have arrested a suspect from Gokwe believed to be part of a nine member gang which attacked a victim with logs, axes and spears, leading to his death. National police spokesperson assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said the victim was murdered at a bar after the suspects accused him of being involved in cattle…
By Ketty Nyoni ZIMBABWE is expected to produce a bumper 3,1 million metric tonnes of maize this year — the country’s main food staple — which is a surplus of 800 000 metric tonnes of the nation’s cereal grain needs. This comes hot on the heels of the country harvesting a record wheat crop of…
A HARARE City Council employee Desmond Rutsito has appeared before the courts facing fraud charges that he allegedly sold a non-existent commercial stand to a private company. Rutsito, 48, is being charged together with suspected land baron Michael Kawanzaruwa, 37. The court heard that sometime in August 2018, Rutsito and Kawanzaruwa connived to deceive Mussa…
