BY RUTENDO NGARA THE Agriculture and Rural Development Advisory Services (Ardas) says at least 92 000 hectares of wheat have been planted now ahead of the closure of the planting window on May 31. This comes as the government has set 120 000 hectares target this year up from 90 000 plated last year. Speaking…
BY NYASHA KUNYISWA ZIMBABWE and Belarus are working towards introducing direct flights between the two countries as a way of cementing their economic ties. Speaking during the donation of airport facilitation equipment to AirPorts Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ), the firm’s acting director for airport operations Rony Masawi said the organisation would take advantage of the…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT AUTHORITIES say they are working on a framework to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) to prevent the negative effects of technology from impacting the country’s moral fibre. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of humans or animals. It is also the field of study in…
BY NYASHA KUNYISWA LEGISLATION for the long debated national health insurance scheme to provide accessible and affordable quality healthcare for all is expected to be tabled in the National Assembly soon, Health minister Douglas Mombeshora says. Addressing journalists on Friday after meeting the National Health Insurance Taskforce members in Harare, Mombeshora said they were working…
BUSINESSWOMAN and trichologist Kuda Mupawose has released her debut book titled There’s A Pencil In My Hair. The beautifully illustrated children’s book, currently available on Amazon in eBook format, is a response to an apartheid South African method of assessing whether a person has Afro-textured hair to define perceived racial lines, splitting existing communities. “This…
THE Daily News of May 4, 2024 carried a story in which Cottco board chairperson bemoaned the poor harvest of cotton this year, blaming…
WITH just over a quarter of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season gone, two coaches have already been shown the exit door at their clubs. The strange thing about the whole issue is that it is actually the PSL’s recent entrants who are active on the hiring and firing front with league returnees TelOne…
By Thembinkosi NyathiLIFESTYLE WRITERnyathit@dailynews.co.zw MISS Curvy Africa organiser Mercy Mushaninga is determined to shame cynics by hosting a memorable edition of the popular pageant from August 11 to 18 in Harare. The pageant, formed 13 years ago and will this year feature models from at least 11 African countries, is meant for curvaceous women aged…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE interim leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Welshman Ncube, will remain at the helm of the country’s main opposition party. Acting CCC spokesperson and mayor of Harare, Jacob Mafume, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that Ncube would keep the party’s top leadership position until the fledgling movement…
A MAN, 24, from Inyathi in Bubi, Matabeleland North Province, has been convicted after he was arraigned before a local magistrate facing charges of assaulting his mother while drunk. Nkanyiso Ncube, 24, was convicted of physical abuse charges.“On 24 April 2024 at around 1500 hours, the complainant returned home from church and she found her…
