THIRTY-EIGHT percent of Zimbabwe’s working population is under qualified for their jobs, while 13 percent are said to be over qualified, a recent report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revealed. A survey of 114 countries was carried out where Zimbabwe is among a group of low income countries with high number of people…
A THAI national who had run away from being tested for the deadly coronavirus returned to Wilkins Hospital yesterday where all the necessary tests were finally conducted, the Daily News reports. Authorities are now waiting for the results of the tests, which they have committed will be publicly communicated once they are received. This comes…
CABINET yesterday banned the slaughter and sale of cattle from regions affected by disease outbreaks. This comes amid reports that some unscrupulous individuals were selling diseased cattle to butcheries, who were in turn retailing it to unsuspecting consumers. Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri told journalists during a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare that the government had…
SPAR Zimbabwe and Bellevue Abattoir Butcheries have refuted claims that they are selling meat from cattle that will have died from anthrax and the January disease. This comes as videos were circulating on social media platforms of dead or diseased cattle being reportedly bought by meat retailers who then sell to consumers across the country,…
PARLIAMENT yesterday gave an ultimatum of Thursday next week for all legislators and ministers to declare their assets. Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda told legislators that they must comply with the country’s laws. “Two hundred and forty fours MPs have declared their assets, while 26 MPs have not declared their assets, which represents…
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a foreign national who escaped from Wilkins Hospital in Harare on Sunday, just as health officials were about to test him for the much-feared coronavirus, the Daily News reports. This comes as neighbouring South Africa yesterday announced that seven people had now been diagnosed with the lethal virus there,…
THE GRAIN Marketing Board (GMB) has been thrown into turmoil amid allegations that some board members have assumed the day-to-day running of the parastatal after usurping management’s authority. Sources close to the goings-on at GMB told the Daily News that there was disgruntlement among senior managers owing to what they referred to as interference by…
VICE President Kembo Mohadi’s former wife, Tambudzani Muleya, has lost her US$13 000 monthly maintenance claim against the presidium member after the High Court threw out her application. High Court judge Ester Muremba dismissed the application after ruling that there was no need for Mohadi to continue looking after Muleya following the dissolution of their…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s former top aide Douglas Tapfuma has revealed how the State Residences department funded the Zanu PF 2018 election campaign. Tapfuma, who is accused of evading payment of car import duty using the State Residences department’s name, told a Harare court that his prosecution was triggered by detractors in Mnangagwa’s office. He claimed…
A 23-year-old serial armed robber who masqueraded as a taxi driver around Avondale, Harare, and pounced on 25 women while armed with an okapi and toy gun has been slapped with a 58-year prison term. Bruce Kudzaishe Mutsigwa, 23, committed the crimes since November last year before he was arrested on March 4 while wrestling…
