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GOVERNMENT has attributed the snail’s pace of the country’s broadcasting digitisation programme’s implementation to lack of funds. According to the government, the nation’s digitisation programme, which aims to convert the country’s broadcasting services from analogue to digital, is currently 42 percent complete. The programme is expected to be completed by 2025. Speaking at a media…

Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) has said it is working on a number of enforcement regulations to aid in the protection of consumer rights in the country. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), CPC research and public affairs manager Kudakwashe Muderere said the…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accorded the late former Public Service deputy minister and son of the late vice president Simon Muzenda, Tongai Muzenda, liberation hero status. Muzenda, 57, died on Wednesday evening in a tragic accident after the vehicle he was driving hit an electric pole in Borrowdale, Harare. In a letter yesterday addressed to…

FOUR Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) executives have been hauled before the courts after they allegedly stole money from the company to fund their personal gold-buying scheme. PSMAS chief executive Farai Muchena, 54, group strategy and performance executive Victor Chaipa, 49, group secretary Cosmas Mukwesha, 50, and group strategy performance manager Polite Mugwagwa, 41,…

THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has banned the use of some 48kg liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders that are being smuggled into the country for domestic use. According to Zera, the gas cylinders being smuggled into the country were tampered with and are unsafe to use and no one bears responsibility for their maintenance…

TRANSFORM Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume, who was on trial for organising the July 31 anti-government protests, has been found guilty. Ngarivhume was facing a charge of incitement of violence after he used his Twitter account to send a call to Zimbabweans to join the protests against corruption and economic decay. He appeared before Harare magistrate…

LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, in the matter in which they are accused of inciting public violence in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza last year, have challenged the authenticity of the video tendered by the State. During the trial before Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti yesterday, the State had asked the…

GOVERNMENT has warned companies against engaging in corrupt activities, saying the vice must end to pave the way for innovations that will ensure the country’s economic sector can compete globally. Speaking during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) business conference yesterday, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said shunning corruption would improve the country’s economic sector. “In…

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says several districts in the country are performing below the child vaccination target. In a statement yesterday, WHO said while Zimbabwe had made notable progress in its vaccination campaigns, more still needed to be done. “In Zimbabwe, the vaccination coverage rate is currently at 90 percent and well in line…

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has filed an application at the High Court challenging her conviction on charges of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State. The conviction came after a full trial in which Mahere was charged with posting a tweet on her social media account claiming that a baton wielding Harare…