LAST Saturday marked the first time in recent memory that all tickets for a local Premier Soccer League game had been sold out days before the match. The match pitting MWOS against Scottland — two PSL newcomers who have been drawing huge crowds to their games dating back to their days in Division One provided…
THE horticulture sector in the country is poised for major growth, with the country targeting a US$2 billion industry by 2030. Permanent…
IN A move to enhance financial convenience and expand international payments capabilities for Zimbabweans, CABS has expanded its outward foreign payment services. The bank now supports payments in 11 international currencies following the addition of five new currencies to its basket. The newly added currencies: Australian Dollar (AUD), Canadian Dollar (CAD), Japanese Yen (JPY), Swiss…
Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s long-running power crisis will start easing noticeably from next year onwards, when new electricity plants that are under construction come on stream. So says prominent economist and chairperson of the Intensive Energy User Group, Eddie Cross, who added yesterday that the new plants by independent power producers (IPPs)…
Rutendo Ngara THE Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) chief executive officer, Zororo Muranda, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing charges of allegedly approving nearly US$27 000 in school fees payments for top management. He appeared before regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa facing criminal abuse of office charges and was granted US$200 bail. It is the…
Takudzwa Dhambu STAFF WRITER THE minister of Home Affairs minister, Kazembe Kazembe, yesterday issued a notice banning alcoholic drinks manufactured using ethanol, popularly referred in the streets as “kambwa or musombodhiya”. He made the announcement in the Government Gazette. “The minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, in terms of Section 8(2) of the Harmful…
Rutendo Ngara A DOMBOSHAVA man, Succeed Mukaro, was yesterday sentenced to two effective years in jail by Harare provincial magistrate Ethel Chichera for stealing mobile phones valued at US$15 000 from an upmarket shop owned by Miniyothabo Chiwenga, the wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. Mukaro was convicted of unlawful entry. In handing down the…
Tapiwa Chirume chirumet@dailynews.co.zw TRANSPORT operators in Harare have slammed the Harare City Council’s proposed decision to introduce a US$2 fee for each entry into bus ranks, saying the council is targeting revenue without developing the dilapidated bus termini. The bus ranks, such as Copacabana and Market Square, are characterised by uncollected garbage, lack of ablution…
By Trymore Sibanda LAST week, Zimbabwe’s social media streets and some cynical media outlets were “awash with frenzied claims that there is…
Brandon Josphat PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also the Sadc chairperson, yesterday described the late former Zambian President Edgar Lungu as a dedicated “servant and an astute leader” who pushed the interests of the people. Lungu died on Thursday at the age of 68 at a medical centre in South Africa. In his condolence message…
