© TRIANGLE-based sugar production company Tongaat Hulett says it plans to ramp up sugarcane production and venture into other crops. Tongaat Hulett chief executive Gavin Hudson told journalists after the launch of the US$40 million Kilimanjaro sugarcane project in Chiredzi on Saturday that the company planned to expand sugarcane and ethanol production, cattle, winter maize…
EDITOR — With the currency crisis wreaking havoc in Zimbabwe it is wise for the authorities to consider adopting the rand as the main currency. This is now important more than ever before because of several reasons. Chief among these being the fact that those who would have imported basic commodities into the country will…
© TODAY the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) started the process of injecting new notes into the financial system to improve cash in circulation. This is expected to make life easier for ordinary Zimbabweans, including pensioners, who are spending long hours, queuing for cash at their respective banks. By the same stroke, the availability of…
© IN MANY ways Zimbabwe is like a sinking titanic and the futile attempts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reshuffle his Cabinet are tantamount to re-arranging the chairs on the deck of a sinking vessel. It is trite that the hope that many people, inside and outside Zimbabwe, had in Mnangagwa has long dissipated and…
© A RUSAPE magistrate has ordered the police to pay over $10 000 in compensation to six farmers whose houses were destroyed at Lesbury Farm in 2017 during an eviction to pave way for Victory Tabernacle Church leader, Bishop Trevor Manhanga. According to separate court rulings, the farmers will be paid between $1 000 and $5…
© THE country’s uniformed forces must take advantage of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust)’s Genetic Testing Centre to create a database for ease of identification, the centre’s director, Zephaniah Dlamini, has said. The centre offers DNA testing services for human, animal, crop, and pathogen identification. Dlamini said a DNA based database would…
© AN 18-year-old teenager from Filabusi in Matabeleland South has been charged with murder for allegedly stoning a fellow villager to death over a girlfriend. Mbongiseni Gregory Sibanda, 18, of Zamanjalo village allegedly killed Carlos Ndlovu, also aged 18. Ndlovu, who was with his friend Lungisani Mpofu, had found Sibanda chatting with his girlfriend, Primrose…
© MORE than 200 illegal miners have been mauled by vicious dogs in Chiadzwa diamond fields this year alone, the Zimbabwe Diamonds and Allied Workers Union (Zidawu) has said. Zidawu secretary general Cosmas Sunguro told the Daily News that security guards at mining companies in Chiadzwa should apply minimum and reasonable force when dealing with…
© NEARLY 20 commuters were injured after a Zupco bus plying City-Southlands was hit by a train along Lytton Road in Harare on Saturday. The accident occurred after the driver failed to stop at a rail crossing. The injured commuters were rushed to Harare Hospital. Zupco buses charge $1 against $5 charged by private transporters,…
© ZIMBABWE’s foreign- based players who make up the core of the Warriors squad are expected in the country today to begin preparations for the crucial back-to-back 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Botswana and Zambia. The Warriors play Botswana at the National Sports Stadium on Friday, before facing rivals Zambia in Lusaka four…
