By Ashley Moyo LEADING nightclub company, Devine Assignments, has shut down one of its joints, Club 263, in Bindura for being unprofitable. The company director Biggie Chinoperekwei, pictured left, confirmed the development saying it was a business decision to shut down the more than five-year-old club. “Bars or nightclubs have a lifespan. Once the time-frame…
By Brandon Josphat CLERK of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has bowed to all-round pressure and cancelled the controversial US$2m tender to procure computers at high prices. This comes after Treasury criticised the tender to buy 173 laptops and 79 desktops at US$9 264 and US$3 076 per gadget respectively from Mid-End Computers and Hardware and Blinart…
By Rutendo Ngara GRADE 7 examinations started smoothly yesterday despite teachers threatening to down tools until the government addresses their remuneration plight. A snap survey by the Daily News in Harare revealed that Grade 7 learners sat for their first English paper one examination and teachers were invigilating.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Progressive Teachers…
A SALES lady narrowly escaped jail after she was convicted of stealing cellphones worth over US$30 000 from her employer. Tsungai Chinodakufa was slapped with 15 months imprisonment before six months were suspended for five years on condition of good behaviour. The remaining nine months were set aside on condition that she pays back her…
CIMMYT, the international maize and wheat improvement centre, has teamed up with the government’s National Agriculture Research and Extension Systems (NARES) Breeding Programme to optimise and modernise crop breeding programmes in the country. The partnership is part of efforts to ensure that local farmers grow climate-smart crops, particularly maize, that can withstand the long dry…
A BINDURA man will spend the next eight years behind bars for beating up his neighbour to death on Christmas eve last year after he had tried to burn down his hut in a drunken state. Forward Kichini, who was arrested for murdering Garikai Petro, was last week sentenced to eight years in jail by…
BIKE Addicts have only been in existence for less than a year but their riders’ performances at the African Continental Championships (Afcon) recently in Bulawayo was a clear testimony of a club on a mission to conquer. Founded at the start of the year, Bike Addicts, took with them 16 riders to Bulawayo, who showed…
Nash Mkokwayariraat LUVEVE STADIUM Bulawayo Chiefs……….. (0) 1Manica Diamonds………. 0 OBRIEL Chirinda’s solitary second half goal was all Bulawayo Chiefs needed to secure maximum points in a Castle Lager Premiership match against Manica Diamonds here yesterday. It was a match of few opportunities and far between and Chiefs made full use of their rare…
THE findings of a recent survey by the Afrobarometer are not only startling, but worrying that most of the country’s youth were likely not going to cast ballots in next year’s much anticipated harmonised elections. According to the survey by Afrobarometer, a pan-African research institute, 54 percent of Zimbabweans aged between 18-35 years were likely…
By Brandon Josphat ZIMBABWE’s relentless power cuts worsened at the weekend after under-pressure power utility Zesa announced intensified load shedding which spooked both ordinary consumers and businesses alike. Responding to the brutal power cuts, a concerned president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Kurai Matsheza, told the Daily News yesterday that the heavy load…
