© URBAN poverty continues to ravage Zimbabwe, with 93 percent households living below the poverty datum line, a situation that is projected to worsen by January 2020, a World Food Programme (WFP) report has revealed. The report, which analysed the food security situation in the country, showed that many households were increasingly failing to access…
© POLICE in Plumtree have arrested a suspected con artist who allegedly swindled 40 people of more than US$400 000 at Plumtree Border Post. According to national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi,pictured, the suspect, identified as Semkelwe Maphosa (51), committed the crimes between January and July 2019. [GoogleAd] “The suspect defrauded… US$400 000 by forging customs…
© PEOPLE with disabilities are still suffering serious discrimination and stigmatisation, with some mothers being forbidden to breast-feed their babies due to their deformities, it has emerged. Unesco senior programme specialist and head of the education sector, Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo, revealed this during World Disability Day recently, adding that most people do not want to understand…
VARUN Beverages, a subsidiary of India’s RJ Corp, is set to expand into the agricultural sector as part of its investment and expansion plans. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa indicated that he would provide land for free to Varun Beverages upon its request. Speaking on the sidelines of Varun Beverages’ US$20 million phase two plant…
© Banker and former Africa First ReNaissance Corporation Limited (Afre) executive chairperson, Patterson Timba, has lost his Philadelphia Harare Estate worth $14 million after he was placed under sequestration by the High Court of Zimbabwe. Sequestration is the surrender of an individual’s estate to the High Court under the Insolvent Act when one realises that…
© THE UNITED Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Women Affairs ministry has launched a mobile One Stop Centre (OSC) for gender-based violence survivors in Hopley, Harare, to reduce the number of physical facilities that they have to visit to access services. [GoogleAd] This comes as the country is commemorating 16 Days of…
© ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWA) chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has said the ruling Zanu PF is not threatened by the launch of a political movement by self-exiled former ruling party stalwart, Saviour Kasukuwere. This comes as Kasukuwere’s movement, Tyson Wabantu, was launched in Bulawayo last week by a group of disgruntled former Zanu…
© OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa is toning down on one of his key demands for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa — to have an external mediator and is now open to either a local cleric or retired judge mediating such talks, the Daily News reports. This comes as relations between authorities and Chamisa are widely accepted…
A jittery Zanu PF — battling to deal with the country’s deepening political and economic crises — has launched an expansive investigation into the sources of leaks of sensitive party and State information to its political foes. Well-placed sources told the Daily News at the weekend that ruling party bigwigs were “hopping mad” that classified…
© WORK at the Cold Storage Company (CSC)-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe is taking shape, with the investors optimistic that by February they will resume work. [GoogleAd] This comes at a time when the beef company shut down its headquarters in Bulawayo two months ago to pave way for what the new investors described as “repairs, refurbishments…
