By Brandon Josphat ALL public and private schools across the country will next week hold the Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (Cala) school curriculum review consultations to be attended by parents, teachers, ministry of Education officials and other stakeholders. Cala was first introduced in the 2021 public examinations for Grade Seven, Form Four and Upper Sixth…
ZIMBABWE yesterday took delivery of 18 medical, air policing, search and rescue helicopters from Russia. President Emmerson Mnangagwa received the helicopters at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The helicopters would be used by health and security sectors, while some would be used for natural disasters operations. The helicopters were part of the government’s public private…
THE Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (Zida) says citrus growing is in need of a cash injection of over US$100 million to boost production and export growth. Addressing a citrus indaba in Harare yesterday, Zida economist Tafadzwa Mushope said there was a need to come up with incentives that target citrus producers for them to…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO OVER 80 families, some of whom have been staying at the Bulawayo Municipal Compound (BMC) flats, face eviction after the council resolved that the occupied houses should be reserved exclusively for its security personnel. According to the latest council report, the local authority has instructed the housing and community services department…
By Rutendo Ngara SWEDEN has donated US$6 million to Zimbabwe to cater for child protection from violence, abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, child marriages and teenage pregnancies, while Unicef will implement the programme that will run in 10 districts in the country. Speaking at the Unicef child protection signing ceremony in Harare yesterday, Swedish ambassador to…
TWO Chitungwiza Town Council senior officials, who allegedly unprocedurally created 30 commercial stands on reserved municipal land, yesterday appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court facing criminal abuse of duty charges as public officers. Chitungwiza municipality town planner, Rosemary Maridza, 41, and the council’s land survey technician, Henry Kandawasvika, 45, appeared before Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje…
THE Sadc Parliamentary Forum (PF) has heightened its calls for the Zimbabwe Government to ensure that local women participate in all processes of the upcoming general elections. Speaking yesterday at a regional high-level dialogue on women’s participation, the Sadc PF secretary-general, Boemo Sekgomo, said there was need for more effort to ensure women took part…
By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has partnered with a local engineering company to build a 50 megawatt (MW) solar plant at its Ncema farm as part of sustainable measures to have alternative power sources. This is in the face of recurrent power cuts which have been destabilising water supplies to residents and…
FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s incarcerated son, Siqokoqela, 44, has filed an appeal against the 20-year jail sentence that was handed to him early this month after being found guilty of three counts of raping his niece and escaping lawful custody. He filed the appeal at the Bulawayo High Court yesterday through his lawyer, Zibusiso…
Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw MOST HIV-positive youth are reluctant to approach public health centres to receive their antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment due to stigmatisation, and health experts have called on the government to find alternative solutions to make the drugs easily accessible. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI) research day in Harare…
