A MUZARABANI woman who was arrested last year for allegedly stabbing her husband to death has been acquitted in the High Court. Lackia Chirwa, 23, was found not guilty by Justice Esther Muremba, who ruled that she killed her husband, Promise Mukombe, in self-defence. “The deceased was stabbed with the knife by the accused (Chirwa)…
HIGH Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora has ordered the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to return more than 100 000 litres of petrol seized from a local trucking company last year. This comes after the company, Ajara Trucking Logistics, filed a lawsuit, complaining that Zimra had not given any reasons as to why the fuel and…
Brandon Josphatjosphatb@dailynews.co.zw THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is ramping up its efforts to combat inflation and keep the prices of basic goods in the country relatively stable. In his first monetary policy statement (MPS) of the year yesterday, RBZ governor John Mangudya also said the central bank had reduced interest rates from 200 percent…
Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw MORE than 82 000 children received mental health and psycho-social support in the country last year, while 57 000 others were helped to access gender-based violence risk mitigation interventions. In a recent report, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) also said it had trained thousands of teachers around the country on the prevention…
Rutendo Ngarangarar@dailynews.co.zw THE government has introduced the construction of mini hydropower stations in an effort to encourage irrigation sustainability so that irrigation is not dependent on electricity from the main grid.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the chief director of irrigation development in the Agriculture ministry Tainayeshe Mutazu, said they were coming up with climate-proof…
By Brandon Josphat AN MDC faction led by former vice president Elias Mudzuri is pushing to oust Douglas Mwonzora from his position as the party president, claiming his “dictatorial practices” are against the party’s ethos. Addressing a press conference in Harare yesterday, Mudzuri blamed the current MDC president for not following the party constitution in…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Tobacco Research Board (TRB) has recommended increasing the percentage of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from 0.3 percent to one percent in industrial hemp in order to provide farmers with more options when selecting genetics to produce and enable the development of a wider range of markets. According to TRB, a higher concentration of…
Brandon Josphatjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE jockeying for parliamentary and local government seats within Zanu PF ahead of this year’s crunch national elections is getting heated. So serious have many of the contests become, that some of the sitting legislators and councillors have now approached the ruling party’s leadership in a bid to try and rein in their…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says many Zimbabweans will be requiring food assistance in the next six months. As a result, the world’s largest humanitarian organisation and the leading provider of school meals says it needs US$52,3 million to extend food relief to nearly four million people in urban and rural areas.“Over the last decade,…
Rumbidzai Ngwenya NINE people were seriously injured yesterday following an explosion at the Chegutu Grain Marketing Board (GMB). Authorities believe that the explosion was a result of gases generated by chemicals used to preserve stored grain. Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna confirmed the incident. “There was an explosion at GMB Chegutu and nine people have…
