THERE were almost universal calls yesterday from a large cross-section of Zimbabweans, to have the late black empowerment pioneer, Ben Mucheche, declared a national hero. Mucheche — born Martin Beno Nhau — succumbed to heart failure on Wednesday at his farm in Beatrice. He was 96 years old. Flamboyant businessman and Affirmative Action Group (AAG)…
CONVICTED popular comedian Felistus Murata, known as Mai TT, will spend the next nine months in prison after Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda sentenced her yesterday for theft of trust property while an additional charge was added for defaulting community service. On Tuesday, Chibanda found her guilty of illegally using a hired car as collateral to…
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…
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…
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 PARLIAMENT has upheld the contentious new nomination fees that were recently gazetted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This comes despite the fear by opposition parties that the fees would result in many of their aspiring candidates failing to participate in this year’s elections. The decision by Parliament also comes after the…
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…
By Rutendo Ngara ONE of the country’s leading platinum producers, Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats), yesterday commissioned a US$104m concentrator plant that will boost production from 4,2 million metric tonnes to 6,2 million metric tonnes of concentrate per annum. Speaking on behalf of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mines minister Winston Chitando said the project was a testament…
By Ketty Nyoni AS THE Zimbabwean dollar continues to lose its value against the US dollar, hard pressed consumers continue to bear the brunt, as prices of goods and services continue to go up daily. As of yesterday, the local currency was trading at $5 985 at the interbank rate and $9 000 on the…
ZIMTILE, a division of PG Industries, is set to double its cement brick manufacturing capacity after commissioning a US$1 million state-of-art cement…
