THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has engaged local residents and businesses to assist with vehicles for its polio vaccination campaign, which starts tomorrow. In a statement yesterday, the BCC town clerk, Christopher Dube, said the council needed to hire at least 103 vehicles for the free vaccination programme. “The City of Bulawayo is inviting individuals…
A HARARE man masquerading as a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer allegedly received a US$565 bribe after duping a 21-year-old Waterfalls jobseeker that he could secure employment for him within the spy agency. Trymore Kakonyo, 38, of Budiriro, who is facing charges of fraud, appeared before Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera last Friday before he was…
THE Zimbabwe government is holding consultations with key stakeholders on reviewing the Broad-Based Women Economic Empowerment Framework (BBWEEF). Addressing participants at one…
THE OWNER of Elima Fuels is facing smuggling charges after he allegedly illegally brought in two trucks laden with diesel and petrol from Mozambique into Zimbabwe without paying duty. Eliel Madziwa, 32, together with his company, Elima Fuels were brought before Harare Magistrate Ethel Chichera last Friday charged with two counts of smuggling before being…
FIVE men, including two police officers, who were last month arrested for impersonation, have returned to the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing charges of allegedly stealing a vehicle they had previously sold. Tinashe Mhere, 27, Nyasha Ndumo, 31, Luckmore Makwara, 21, Peter Maodzeka, 51, and Raymond Banda, 28, appeared before Harare Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa on Friday….
MALARIA deaths and infections have increased this year in Binga district, Matabeleland North Province, as mosquitoes in the area are reported to be now resistant to a chemical used to control their spread, authorities have confirmed. Addressing journalists during a tour of Binga District Hospital last week, acting district medical officer Sibonginkosi Ncube highlighted a…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT ENTERPRISING Zimbabweans are always looking for new opportunities to survive through the economic challenges that the country is facing and one of those fresh “job” openings has turned out to be sports betting. The “new profession” involves predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome and bettors place their wagers…
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed a women stakeholder engagement last week in Bulawayo with some female politicians breaking down into tears as they agonisingly narrated how they had endured a plethora of grim obstacles in their political journeys where men have dominated the hard-nosed political domain. So disturbing was the situation that the organisers found it…
THE government has appealed to stakeholders to collaborate and come up with measures to curb veld fires in the city of Bulawayo. This comes at a time when the second-largest city has witnessed a surge in the number of fire incidents, which have seen various properties being destroyed.Speaking to the Daily News yesterday while handing…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO AN 18-year-old man from Maphisa in Kezi has been arrested for allegedly sodomising his nine-year-old nephew before promising him R10 to buy his silence. The man who cannot be named to protect the identity of the minor appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malinga on Wednesday, facing a sodomy charge.The court heard…
