THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has suspended Vision Leaf Tobacco Company, a contracting firm, from operating over charges of failing to follow proper procedures. Tobacco contractors are service providers who provide farming inputs, chemicals and machinery during the cropping season. The suspension of Vision Leaf Tobacco comes at a time when the tobacco…
Nyasha Kunyiswa GOVERNMENT has appealed for the private sector to prioritise private-public partnerships to improve the public’s access to healthcare services, especially in physiotherapy. Speaking at the reopening of a US$57 000 St Giles Rehabilitation Centre’s hydrotherapy pool in Milton Park Harare yesterday, Maxwell Hove chief director curate services in the Health ministry said the…
A 40-YEAR-OLD man from Nyandeni village under chief Mathema in Gwanda North, Matabeleland South province, has been arrested for allegedly killing his…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says he is committed to transforming Bulawayo’s sprawling and biggest suburb, Cowdray Park, as the former banker takes his chances at full-time politics. This comes after Ncube recently submitted his CV for consideration in the Zanu PF’s primary elections set for this weekend to contest as Cowdray Park’s parliamentary constituency candidate….
Ketty Nyoni ZIMBABWE has recorded one cholera death, three confirmed cases, and 31 suspected cases, amid reports that 14 of the patients were Mozambicans who had crossed into the country seeking treatment. This was confirmed by the Health ministry in its cholera situation update yesterday. “Fourteen of the suspected cases and one suspected death brought…
A TWO-DAY workshop to capacitate farmers and government agricultural extension officers and researchers on high-yielding rice cultivation techniques kick-started in Harare yesterday. Organised by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), the seminar is bringing together rice farmers from across the country, with Jica rice technical adviser Tatsushi Tsuboi sharing insights on both lowland and upland…
Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw AFRA Nhanhanga, an executive of a leading public transport passenger company, CAG Tours, was on Tuesday awarded an honorary doctorate by the United Nations (UN) Global Chairwomen in New York, the United States(US). She is the operations manager of the bus company. UN global Women Foundation executive secretary Erika Julmon said the…
Freedom Mashava NOT many dream of seeing their 90th birthday, yet Veronica Musunzambwa has clocked 103, and still counting. Her life journey is a tale of betrayal and rejection after her husband divorced her 80 years ago. “My husband left me, due to pressure from his family, as I could not bear him any children,”…
SMALL-SCALE miners, hit by new base minerals export blanket ban announced recently by the government, are seeking a six-month moratorium to fulfil existing supply arrangements with international buyers. In a letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and copied to Mines minister Winston Chitando, the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya said the unexpected Statutory Instrument…
A CHIVHU woman, Emelda Marizani, is set to know her fate tomorrow at the High Court as it is set to deliver its judgment on her quadruple murder charges. Marizani, who was arrested in 2020, is currently in remand prison after High Court judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi reserved his ruling in November last year to…
