By Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE and Zambia are partnering on the treatment of sickle cell anaemia in a bid to promote awareness on the disease. Sickle cell anaemia is a group of disorders that cause red blood cells to become distorted and break down resulting in shortage of blood in the body.Speaking to Daily News…
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over local supermarkets and tuck shops that are selling illegal alcoholic beverages, saying all efforts will be made to bring the culprits to book. Speaking during a press conference in Harare yesterday, minister of Industry Sithembiso Nyoni said the ministry‘s primary mandate was to protect consumers from taking unsafe and hazardous…
THE spread of Covid-19, the worldwide pandemic that made the world close its doors for near[1]ly two years, necessitated the creation of a system which could allow people, in particular litigants, to access justice and the legal system online. And from that need was born the idea of the much anticipated electronic court system, which…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT SMALL-SCALE miners have decried the inconsistencies in rural district councils (RDC) taxing regimes saying it has grossly impacted their operations. Speaking after paying a courtesy call to the new minister of Mines, Zhemu Soda on Friday, Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya said rural councils should instead come up with a…
FARMERS have been urged to promote the production and consumption of traditional millet varieties across the social divide as the grains play…
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce says it is putting in place several measures that will promote women’s participation in commerce as a way of promoting gender parity. Speaking during the 10th edition of the Women in Enterprise and Conference Awards (WECA) in Harare yesterday, ZNCC president Mike Kamungeremu noted that women’s participation in commerce…
BY RUTENDO NGARA AT LEAST 2 000 households in Chiredzi district, Masvingo Province, are set to benefit from over US$1.5 million in aid from the United States Agency for International Development (USAid). In a joint statement, USAid and the Mwenezi Development Training Centre (MDTC) stated that they are promoting poultry farming in the district, where…
HARARE magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa yesterday granted US$200 bail to fraud-accused Bindura Town mayor Jacob Gwature. The accused and his accomplice, Jonathan Kapasi, were arrested last weekend after they were allegedly connected to a case of fraud involving US$6 970. However, magistrate Gofa granted Gwature bail but denied Kapasi’s release as he was previously convicted on…
THE Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, says parliamentarians should embrace technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) to expeditiously advance Parliament business. Speaking during a conference on artificial AI and parliaments in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Wednesday, Mudenda said the new technology would enable wider public consultation on coming up with new laws. “The advent…
By Yvonne Ncube A MAN from Windmill Compound at Aislaby, Umguza in Matabeleland North Province, has been jailed for an effective 18 months after he was found guilty of assaulting his drinking partner with a machete on the forehead and nose for an undisclosed reason. Conelias Ndebele, 29, appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Vivian Ndlovu…
