By Ashley Moyo YARIRA Ngoma landed the first position at the Harare Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance competition held at Pagugwa Bar in Chitungwiza over the weekend. In winnings, the Chinyambera dance outfit took home the grand prize of US$2500 and a ticket to represent the province in the national competition set for July 29 at…
THREE top Zimbabwean plant researchers flew out to Uganda last week to attend an upland rice production training as the government bids…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday implored all political parties and their supporters to campaign peacefully ahead of next month’s elections, as this will be a demonstration to the outside world that Zimbabwe is a democratic state. The Zanu PF presidential candidate said this while addressing thousands of party supporters at Chinorumba High School in Zaka,…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is set to recruit 120 community health workers in a bid to upgrade the city’s health service delivery system. According to a recent BCC health report, BCC director of health services Edwin Sibanda said it would soon start training local community health workers.“It has been observed that the community health…
FIVE passengers are reported to have died on the spot while an undetermined number have been injured after a bus they were travelling in overturned yesterday morning in Binga, Matabeleland North Province, according to police. This comes after the police confirmed that at least 10 people were killed and five others were injured in two…
THE United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has called on the government to invest in early childhood development in order to build strong foundations for the young. In a statement at the weekend, Unicef said the government should intensify its parenting programmes, early education and exclusive breastfeeding as these offer a critical window of opportunity…
HEALTH experts have expressed concern over the high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among youth in the country. This is particularly so for people aged between 18 and 24 years in Harare, Bulawayo and parts of Mashonaland East — where one in five are affected. This startling fact is confirmed in a report…
A HARARE car dealer, who is believed to have abused the civil servants rebate scheme to illegally import cars without paying duty, appeared in court last week facing two counts of fraud. Taona Murombedzi, 30, appeared before magistrate Stanford Mambanje, who remanded him out of custody to August 21.The State, represented by Pardon Dziva, is…
By Beaven Dhliwayo SHAMWARI Yemwanasikana – a community based, NGO that seeks to promote the rights and empowerment of the girl child…
NEXT month’s eagerly anticipated national elections should be treated as a “golden opportunity” for Zimbabwe to show that the country can hold credible and undisputed polls. So say political analysts who told the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that were that to happen, Zimbabwe would be firmly on the road to resolving its myriad…
