By Rutendo Ngara THIS year’s tobacco marketing season will commence on March 8, the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) has said. TIMB acting chief executive, Emmanuel Masvaire yesterday said contract tobacco sales would open a day later. “All stakeholders are advised that the 2023 auction tobacco marketing season opens on Wednesday March 8, 2023. Sales…
By Rumbidzai Ngwenya SEVEN people were killed while six were seriously injured in two road traffic accidents that happened at the weekend. Police spokesperson assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi said the fatal accidents happened on Saturday along Harare-Masvingo and HarareChirundu roads. In the Harare–Masvingo road accident, a Mitsubishi Canter vehicle, which was driving towards Masvingo with…
FORMER Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Christopher Mushowe has died. He passed on at his Harare home yesterday. Mushowe (69) was serving as the executive director of the Presidential Scholarship programme. Zanu PF Manicaland chairperson Mike Madiro confirmed his death last night. “It is true that we have lost one of our own. A…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned Harare mayor Jacob Mafume to improve on service delivery, especially on refuse collection or he would not hesitate to fire him. Speaking during the commissioning of the Aspindale Park and Aspire Heights housing complex in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa said if the local council continued failing to deliver…
ZIMBABWE badminton team captain, Thabani Mathe, is confident that his charges will bring home some silverware from the 2023 Badminton All Africa Senior Championships that kick off today in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Zimbabwean team, which is made up of six top local players also includes, Avishi Raina, Shalom Sibanda, Fabiana Oliviero, Ashel Dziva and…
ZIMBABWE’S batting frailties were crudely exposed by the West Indies attack on the opening day of the second and final Test at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday, as Gudakesh Motie took seven wickets to limit the hosts to just 115 all out in their first innings. On a day when the Chevrons’ chances suffered…
KANYE West’s new wife has reportedly taken over his business affairs. Bianca Censori, 28, the Yeezy architectural designer, who tied the knot…
DESPITE the controversy surrounding rapper Kiernan Forbes — better known as AKA — he will be remembered as a superstar, a doting…
ZIMBABWE’S health system is in dire straits, weighed down by the meagre budget being allocated to the Health ministry, which is continually shrinking year in, year out. Not surprisingly, public hospitals currently have limited capacity to provide very basic services against the backdrop of a worsening turnover of critical staff like doctors and nurses, who…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Lucy Mungwari, has struck off the roll of an application by the Harare City Council in which it sought to recover 13 stands in Mabvuku, that were given to a law firm, Chengeta Law Chambers. According to court documents, a company, Tafara Infrastructure Development Consortium (TIDC), gave the stands to Chengeta…
