© Southern Cotton Company (SCC), a wholly Zimbabwean-owned company, disbursed inputs valued at $4,1 million to cotton farmers towards the production of cotton, making it the country’s second largest sponsor of the sector in the 2018/19 production and marketing season. [GoogleAd] The level of funding by SCC in the cotton sector has significantly increased the…
© FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has said he lost millions of dollars in an elaborate scam involving top management at his TD investment. [GoogleAd] The company has interests in real estate, consultancy, and also poultry farming. The former top banker discovered the fraud — which runs into millions of dollars —…
© A 28-YEAR-OLD man was slapped with a mandatory 10-year jail term after he was caught red-handed draining oil from a transformer in the middle of the night at a substation Mt Hampden. Bright Chakanetsa, of no fixed abode, was caught by a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) security guard Abisha Gideon on…
© GOVERNMENT has given schools around the country the green light to increase their tuition fees and levies for the third term to enable them to survive the harsh economic climate, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] The fees increases compound pressure on struggling parents and guardians, whose earnings are being eroded daily by the rising…
© Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural Residents Association (Camera) director Marvellous Kumalo has been arrested on allegations of fraud. It is alleged that Kumalo sometime in 2012 sold a commercial stand in the dormitory town to a businessman for US$7 500, which he did not deliver. According to the complainant, Joseph Munyonho, Kumalo allegedly tried to…
© HOME Affairs minister Cain Mathema yesterday stormed out of Parliament after opposition legislators tried to grill him over the recent police brutality and the growing cases of abductions in the country targeting government critics. [GoogleAd] With Mathema not keen to discuss the issue in the august House, the deputy Speaker of the National Assembly…
© THE move by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to announce an increase in the price of fuel, with cities having different prices ranging from $10,01 to $10,56 for petrol and $10,32 to $10,86 for diesel has sparked outrage in this part of the country. [GoogleAd] According to the price list, motorists in Matabeleland…
© IN YET another ominous development for Zimbabwe, the government of the United States of America says it is getting increasingly disappointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration over its vicious clampdown on critics, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes as it has also emerged that President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa — Zimbabwe’s…
© A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army and two of his accomplices were yesterday thrown behind bars after they were convicted of being part of the January fuel protests. [GoogleAd] The soldier, Tafadzwa Mhou, 26, Dexter Mungwadi, 23, and Dalumizi Ndlovu, 26, allegedly set ablaze three trucks at Ashys Service Station in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane…
© VILLAGERS yesterday thronged the Bulawayo High Court for the trial of Ndabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni with several gathering outside the court after hearing there was no space inside. [GoogleAd] Police were out in full force, cordoning off all roads leading to the High Court as they remained alert in case the crowd turned violent….
