THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has revealed that at least 49 percent of the youth in the country are not receiving any education or training and are out of employment. In its quarterly labour force survey result for the first quarter of this year that was released yesterday, Zimstat said the country was recording…
Ketty Nyoni STAFF WRITER nyonik@dailynews.co.zw THE Harare City Council (HCC) says the delay in having their 2024 budget approved is crippling their operations as they are still working with last year’s budgetary determinants. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Harare mayor Jacob Mafume said almost half way through the year, the local authority…
BULAWAYO mayor David Coltart says the city is working to construct several markets in the periphery of the central business district as well as in high density suburbs in order to curb unemployment challenges. Speaking during a United Nations stakeholders meeting yesterday, Coltart said it was crucial for the unemployed to transition into the informal…
BY RUTENDO NGARA A GOKWE businessman Comfort Gutu allegedly stole US$350 000 from his business partner Sibusisiwe Mutendi and opened two pharmacies without his knowledge. It is alleged that the two were operating a pharmacy in Gokwe, before Gutu defrauded his partner and set up two more branches. Gutu yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THREE Harare men, Samuel Muronzi, 24, Lionel Rupiya, 34, and Jonathan Chishiri, 30, were yesterday arraigned before the courts facing charges of assaulting and kidnapping two police detectives. They are also being charged with contravening the Firearms Act. The trio appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi who remanded them to July 4…
THREE police officers who were stationed at Beitbridge Police Station and robbed Timothy Murasiranwa of his US$60 000 Toyota Prado vehicle last year were yesterday sentenced to a combined 30- year jail term. Admore Nyamaropa, Andrew Magwenzi, and Prince Mugove Kuchekenya were each sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by Harare magistrate Estere Chivasa. Nyamaropa will…
BY RUTENDO NGARA FOUR men who allegedly stole properties worth US$500 000 from their employer, former first Lady Grace Mugabe, were denied bail on Tuesday after investigating officer Oliver Guta raised fears that they could abscond. Mugabe is the widow of the late former President Robert Mugabe. The quartet of Allen Chinamonya, 42, Danmore Chinamonya,…
UPTAKE of female condoms is on the rise in Kadoma, Mashonaland West province, a local Non-governmental organization which offers free HIV services…
By Stella Madzivanyika madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw FRUITFUL relations between Zimbabwe and Rwanda can only be realised if the various memoranda of understanding they signed are implemented, a top government official has said. This comes after the two sub-Saharan countries on Tuesday concluded a mid-term review of their second session of the Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO ELEVEN Bulawayo men have been arrested after they were found poaching firewood with donkeys they allegedly stole from various farmers in Ntabazinduna, Mbembesi district. Arnold Sibanda, 27, Calvin Sibanda, 33, Bekithemba Moyo, 33, Brain Soto, 24, Samuel Nyathi, 33, Trust Sibanda, 20, Bukhosi Moyo, 28, Ndodana Ndlovu, 30, Bazel Dube,…
