By Rutendo Ngara ONE of the country’s leading platinum producers, Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats), says it is working on an ambitious project that will revive a cheese manufacturing factory in Kadoma as the company diversifies its operations. The factory, which is owned by Dairibord, closed in 2009 due to low milk production. Its resuscitation would…
TWO police officers have been hauled before the courts after they allegedly extorted US$1 000 from a married woman by threatening to expose her extramarital affair. Gift Pfirwe, 36, Jonathan Taurai Dhokwani, 33, and their accomplice, Takesure Magunje, 50, were arraigned before Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda yesterday facing extortion charges. They were granted $200 000…
POLICE in Maphisa, Matabeleland South Province, have launched a manhunt for five suspects who allegedly teamed up to murder a man they accused of being in a relationship with a woman they found him walking with. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Matabeleland South police spokesperson Thandolwenkosi Moyo said the victim died after being severely…
GOVERNMENT says it is targeting reducing mother-to-child HIV infections to five percent, after the infections rose to eight percent due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the director of the Aids and Tuberculosis Programme in the ministry of Health, Owen Mugurungi, said while…
POPULAR comedian Felistus Murata, known as Mai TT, who was convicted of theft of trust property on Tuesday, spent another night in prison after the State said yesterday it needed time to verify her eligibility for community service. Magistrate Munashe Chibanda convicted her of illegally using a vehicle from a local rental company as collateral…
WITH cases of pregnancy termination and baby dumping in the country on the increase, according to police spokesperson Paul Nyathi, it is high time authorities started to think hard and long on how to end the scourge outside the threats of arrest. “Police in Filabusi are investigating a case of concealing birth which occurred at…
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe, the country’s largest mobile network operator, has announced plans to upgrade 500 of its base stations and deploy an additional 300 new base stations across the country over the course of this year. The company said the move is part of its ongoing efforts to improve network quality and capacity, and to…
ZANU PF is set to elect its representatives to the provincial council this week ahead of the sitting of the Nomination Court next week as preparations for the August 23 general elections gather pace. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, the party national political commissar Mike Bimha said the provincial councils which are provided for…
By Brandon Josphat SIMBARASHE Mutsahuni Chikore’s lawyer, Rogers Matsikidze, has confirmed that his client was indeed previously married to Margaret Jeanine Brooks in America. However, Matsikidze told the Daily News yesterday that Bona — Simba’s estranged wife and daughter of the late former president Robert Mugabe — was aware of this. In addition, and according…
By Brandon Josphat ZIMBABWE this year recorded its highest tobacco production in nearly 200 years with the government crediting at least 85 percent of the crop’s harvest to smallholder farmers, acting Information minister Jenfan Muswere said yesterday. He was speaking during a post Cabinet press briefing in Harare last night. “Cabinet is pleased to advise…
