Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A VILLAGE head’s son from Nyamandlovu village in Matabeleland North Province has been slapped with an effective five year prison sentence after he was convicted of attempted murder. Jordan Mabhena, 22, the son of village head Deli Mabhena, on Friday appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga. He pleaded guilty to…
By Stella Madzivanyika STAFF WRITER madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE State-owned Kutsaga Tobacco Research Board is finalising on its programme not to rely on government grants, but to be economically self-sufficient by 2025. Its target to be self-reliant is based on plans of increasing the production of high-quality potato seed varieties. The country has mostly been relying on…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw A POWER cut at the Harare Magistrates Court on Friday disrupted businessman Mike Chimombe’s bail ruling, which was later moved to today. Chimombe is challenging his placement on remand on allegations of submitting forged documents in a US$9 million Harare street light rehabilitation tender earlier this year. The tender is on behalf…
WILBERT RUKATO, Own Correspondent THE return of Supermodel Zimbabwe and Miss Zambia-Zimbabwe in 2024 marks a return to form in the Zimbabwean pageant arena. Miss Universe Zimbabwe also made a welcome return in 2023 and made steps to perfect their presentation of the 2024 edition. There are also a plethora of other pageants with the…
SINCE the turn of the millennium, Zimbabwe has been a hub for religious solutions thanks to the emergency of influential preachers such as Emmanuel Makandiwa, Uebert Angel and Walter Magaya among others. The majority of trailblazing preachers are young but they command amazing crowds mainly because of their reported ability to predict future events and…
BY EMMANUEL MARAMBE TENNIS Zimbabwe president Walter Jera believes junior development is the way to go if Zimbabwe is to become a force to reckon with at the global stage. Zimbabwean tennis is currently undergoing a steady renaissance after years of regression that followed the retirement of the Black siblings Byron, Wayne and Cara as…
FORMER Premier Soccer League (PSL) secretary-general Leslie Gwindi has hit out at the country’s football leadership, blaming them for the current rot in the game. It is not the first time that Gwindi has blasted the country’s football chiefs, with the firebrand ex-football administrator having castigated authorities last year for failing to address the issue…
IT HAS emerged that some members of Zanu PF’s parliamentary caucus are currently pondering giving effect to the growing calls within the ruling party for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to continue in office beyond 2028. These legislators told the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend that part of their plan was to use Zanu PF’s…
DECEMBER has now been set by authorities as the latest period for the completion of the construction of Harare’s US$88 million Mbudzi Interchange in Harare. This comes as authorities failed to meet the last expected deadline of the construction interchange bridge, which was July 31. The completion of the multi-million dollar project has been stalled…
BY SHAMAINE CHIRIMUJIRIStaff Writer THE government will investigate claims of sub-standard maternal healthcare at two of the county’s largest referral hospitals. This follows serious allegations of poor service at Harare’s Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, as well as Parirenyatwa’s maternity wing, Mbuya Nehanda, also in the capital. The allegations include claims that some expectant mothers are…
