PROFESSIONAL chef and food entrepreneur Mhlelusizo Ncube, currently on a culinary exchange tour in the USA, says it’s an honour for her to be part of this year’s edition of the International Indigenous Culinary Festival. The event, a platform meant to showcase indigenous chefs and indigenous food producers from around the world, kicked off on…
IN RECENT weeks, the country has been witnessing a resurgence in cases of armed robberies across the country. The robberies have been happening in homes, businesses and schools where the robbers have concrete inside information that the victims are keeping large sums of cash. The armed robbers are so daring that last week at Warren…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has once again surpassed its polio vaccination target by 114 percent against a target of 146 292 children city wide. In a statement yesterday, BCC attributed this to various communication methods it employed to advertise the blitz. “The City of Bulawayo participated in the national novel Oral Polio…
By Brandon Josphat and Brighton Muronzereyi THE region will continue to lobby for the removal of all the Western sanctions on Zimbabwe when its leaders meet in Harare in August this year for the Sadc Summit. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, South African ambassador to Zimbabwe, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, also said Harare and Pretoria were…
By Bryn Matongo matongob@dailynews.co.zw OVER 12 million Zimbabweans across the country are food insecure following poor harvests resulting from the El Nino-induced drought ravaging the Sadc region, the government has said. Speaking during a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Information minister Jenfan Muswere said this had been revealed in an update on the summer…
By Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zw HEALTHCARE institutions must think outside the box and raise funds to cater for their everyday operations rather than depend on the government, Parliament has said. Speaking after touring Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals yesterday, chairperson of the parliamentary committee on health Daniel Molokele said he was not amused by the way public…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A HERD boy from Inyathi, Matabeleland North Province, has been sentenced to an effective 17 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing his employer’s daughter on three separate occasions. Mukuli Nleya, 39 appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Sibonginkosi Mnkandla facing rape charges. He denied the charges and…
BY STELLA MADZIVANYIKA A FORMER police officer, Manas Mbano, 43, from Hwange in Matabeleland North Province has been sentenced to an effective seven months’ imprisonment after being found guilty of stealing bricks. According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), a local magistrate sentenced the accused to 12 months’ imprisonment of which four months were suspended…
THE Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) on Tuesday clarified that it has not invited or accredited Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party…
By Cloud Fusire fusirec@dailynews.co.zw ZIFA Normalisation Committee (NC) boss Lincoln Mutasa has revealed that Fifa has committed to paying a foreign coach for the country’s senior men’s national football team who will be assisted by local coaches. The Zifa NC are in the hunt for a substantive coach to lead the Warriors for the upcoming…
