ZIMBABWE authorities are targeting Harare car dealers selling smuggled luxury vehicles to unsuspecting motorists in the country in a bid to weed out the culprits evading paying duty for the vehicles. Through sophisticated cartels, several car dealers have smuggled in thousands of luxury vehicles into the country by manipulating various loopholes to ensure that the…
ANOTHER State security agent is facing fraud charges after he and his colleague allegedly tried to get State number plates from the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) for a personal vehicle. George Madziva, 40, who is employed as a transport officer in the Office of the President and Cabinet and is stationed at Chaminuka Building in…
GOVERNMENT is addressing inputs and grain transportation challenges faced by most farmers and is in the process of purchasing new trucks for the Grain Marketing Board (GMB). Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka confirmed the development saying: “currently, we are in the midst of buying lorries for GMB. The first…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) is conducting a stands regularisation exercise in suburbs across the city and those unclaimed and lacking necessary documentation will not be regularised and will be repossessed. In a statement at the weekend, the HCC said the exercise would be done in Waterfalls, Hatfield, Chadcombe, Eastlea, Warren Park, Kuwadzana and Kambuzuma….
THE Four ZB bank heist suspects, who were recently acquit ted on charges of robbery, have appeared back in court on fresh charges of money laundering. Trymore Chapfika, Tozivirepi Chirara, Dennis Madondo and Tatenda Tadzikwa were arraigned before Harare Magis trate Donald Ndirowei on Friday. When they appeared in court, the four, through their respective…
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have called for the revision of the recently amended Labour Act, saying it should also protect informal traders from sexual harassment as they constitute a bigger part of the economy. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday on the sidelines of an engagement meeting yesterday, a lawyer from ZLHR,…
POLICE have expressed concern over increasing gender-based violence-related murders, saying couples should solve differences amicably instead of resorting to violence. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said police continue to get cases of murder resulting from domestic disputes. “Currently police in Bulawayo are appealing for information which may…
BY YVONNE NCUBEIn Bulawayo WHILE, US$48 may seem like an un sustainable amount for any family, for the vulnerable communities of Lupane, Matabeleland North province, it represented a lifeline, bringing the much needed respite following the unexpected devastation brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020. Situated about 200 kilometres north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s…
MARS Zimbabwe has launched a new healthcare service called MARS LifeSaver, an affordable and potentially game-changing package that will significantly widen access to healthcare services in the country. For US$2 per month, MARS LifeSaver offers three services — free ambulance services, free health tips and free dial-a-doc consultations. MARS, a leading healthcare innovator, said in…
THEY do not have a pension nor financial support from families or relatives, but they have themselves. Now they have become collectors of plastic waste, which they turn into products as they battle for survival — earning money from the growing plastic pollution in Zimbabwe. Such are the lives of the country’s senior citizens, like…
