RUTENDO NGARASenior Staff Writer IN the heart of Zimbabwe’s arid Region 5, where the heat is unforgiving and rains are often a distant promise, survival has long depended on resilience. For generations, villagers in Ndali, Chiredzi East, have lived with the harsh realities of climate change, failed harvests, chronic food insecurity, and deepening poverty. In…
THABISO MUTIRWARAStaff WRITER OLD Mutual Group has distributed 2 000 blankets to hospitals, clinics, children’s shelters, and elderly care centres across all 10 provinces of the country, helping vulnerable communities during this winter season. The group chief executive officer, Sam Matsekete, at the weekend said they launched a nationwide Winter Warmer Campaign, a compassionate initiative…
THE country’s main opposition political party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has failed to field candidates in six council byelections slated for today. This was revealed yesterday by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) vice chairperson Rodney Kiwa during a press conference where he said ZiG9 million had been budgeted for the polls. Three seats were…
RUTENDO NGARA ZIMBABWEAN lower courts are now dominated by female magistrates, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has said. Chief magistrate Vongai Guwuriro said generally more famales apply for the magistrates position as compared to their male counterparts. “We now have 247 magistrates, including those whom we have recently sworn in today, comprising of 98 males…
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has warned the public to be on the alert for falsified Cloxacillin capsules which are being distributed in the market. Cloxacillin is an antibiotic used for the treatment of several bacterial infections which include impetigo, cellulitis, pneumonia, septic arthritis and otitis externa. In a statement yesterday, MCAZ said…
LEONARD Mukumba, the prominent owner of Inter Africa bus company, was allegedly swindled of US$87 210 in a fraudulent land deal involving lawyer Jacqualine Sande, who served as Savior Kasukuwere’s campaign manager during the 2023 harmonised elections. Sande appeared before Harare regional magistrate Donald Ndirowei who granted her US$300 bail. It is alleged that on…
AUTHORITIES have announced the establishment of 67 rehabilitation centres across the country as part of an intensified effort to combat drug and substance abuse. This development follows recent pledges totalling US$3 million to fund national anti-drug initiatives. “As the government we have identified 67 facilities to be renovated to drug rehabilitation centres, most of the…
RUTENDO NGARA A FINANCIAL Intelligence Unit (FIU) analyst, Tonderayi Herbet Makoni, who allegedly extorted a Bulawayo businessman of US$3 000, has been granted US$200 bail at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. Makoni appeared before Harare regional magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka facing fraud charges. He was remanded to August 29, pending the finalisation of investigations. It is alleged…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A 19-YEAR-OLD man from Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found in possession of stolen copper cables belonging to the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC). Zithelo Moyo appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Taurai Manuwere facing a charge of contravening the Electricity Act,…
BY RUTENDO NGARA A BUSINESSMAN who was facing US$260 000 fraud charges for allegedly defrauding Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company was removed from remand yesterday. John Burnett was charged with fraud with the State alleging that he through a company, Burnett Motors failed to supply eight vehicles to ZCDC which lost the money in the process….
