By Nyasha Kunyiswa kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw ANGRY United Methodist Church (UMC) parishioners marched in Harare yesterday to protest the recent decision to permit same sex marriages by their global general conference. The congregants described the decision that was made in the United States of America (USA) in the conference that sat between April 23 and May 3…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT is set to employ university graduates without pedagogy as Advanced Level teachers of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology as part of moves to address shortage of skilled personnel in the education sector. In a letter dated May 20 addressed to the secretary in the ministry of Primary and Secondary Education…
PARLIAMENT has taken the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) to task over the National Sports Stadium refurbishment project amid revelations that work on the giant facility has stalled. A stadium tour conducted on Wednesday by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Sports chaired by Mhondoro-Mubaira legislator Chamu Chiwanza revealed that renovations at the National Sports Stadium…
By Masimba Makwembere and Bryn Matongo STAFF WRITERS HUMANITARIAN organisation Care Zimbabwe is providing aid to El Nino-induced drought affected communities countrywide. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched an international appeal for food aid for vulnerable groups after he recently declared the current drought a state of national disaster which has seen nearly…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw NEWLY-APPOINTED Zanu PF national political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha has commenced a major overhaul of the party after setting the guidelines for its re-organisation programme that will see the establishment of new structures. This comes as the ruling party recently directed all provinces to stop district coordinating committees (DCCs) restructuring and instead…
Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw THE Harare City Council (HCC) says the delay in having their 2024 budget approved is crippling their operations as they are still working with last year’s budgetary determinants. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Harare mayor Jacob Mafume said almost half way through the year, the local authority…
BY RUTENDO NGARA A GOKWE businessman Comfort Gutu allegedly stole US$350 000 from his business partner Sibusisiwe Mutendi and opened two pharmacies without his knowledge. It is alleged that the two were operating a pharmacy in Gokwe, before Gutu defrauded his partner and set up two more branches. Gutu yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THREE Harare men, Samuel Muronzi, 24, Lionel Rupiya, 34, and Jonathan Chishiri, 30, were yesterday arraigned before the courts facing charges of assaulting and kidnapping two police detectives. They are also being charged with contravening the Firearms Act. The trio appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi who remanded them to July 4…
THE Zimbabwe A Women’s side begin their quest for glory at the Kwibuka Women’s T20I tournament when they take on Malawi at the Gahanga B Ground in Kigali, Rwanda today. Zimbabwe are one of eight countries taking part in the tournament that begins today and ends on June 8, the others being Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya,…
THE government has called on former white commercial farmers who lost their land, which was under the Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements (BIPPAs), during chaotic agrarian reforms at the turn of the century to apply for compensation. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said the government had set aside US$20 million in this year’s national budget…
