ON JANUARY 2 this year, three days after giving birth to a baby girl, 14-year-old Delight Masomeke died from labour related complications….
A SOUTH Africa multidisciplinary team led by the National Anti-Kidnapping Task Team recently arrested five people, including a Zimbabwean man, his wife…
ELEVEN families in Budiriro, Harare, were evacuated by the government last Friday from their homes constructed on wetlands before they were provided with temporary shelter at the Budiriro Vocational Training Centre. However, 32 other families declined to be evacuated from their homes. According to a government official, the 11 evacuated families would be relocated to…
THE Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill, which was passed by Zimbabwe’s Parliament on January 31 is seen by critics as a drive against non-governmental organisations (NGOS) championing political rights, greater transparency and accountability in governance and use of national resources. But the Zimbabwe government says the Bill — which becomes law on being signed…
GREAT Zimbabwe was the first major city in southern Africa, home to an estimated 18 000 people at its peak. Yet no…
TRANSPORT minister Felix Mhona yesterday lifted Rimbi Tours’ licence suspension. Rimbi Tours and Zebra Kiss were banned from operating last month after two of their buses were captured racing along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway. However, Rimbi Tours has been barred from operating along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway. The Rimbi Tours bus later rammed into a truck, resulting…
A SECURITY guard at Shamva Gold Mine shot and killed a man who was part of a gang of illegal miners after the group had forced their way into one of the mine’s shafts in 2021. Tinashe Mugarisanwa, a guard at the mine, shot 32-year-old Remember Musariri in November 2021. This emerged after Mugarisanwa appeared…
A MINING firm, Rumgold Trading, which was conducting mining activities along the Angwa River in Makonde district, Mashonaland West province, has been ordered by the High Court to cease operations and remove its heavy machinery from the site. This comes after another mining firm, Angel Hill Mining Company, filed an application at the High Court…
COVID-19 cases continue to increase in the country, with 146 people testing positive on Wednesday, the ministry of Health and Child Care…
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has dropped charges against a Rushinga man, Robert Zakeyo, who was accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa on social media. The 44-year-old Zakeyo was due to go on trial at the Bindura Magistrates Court on Tuesday after the NPA acting ProsecutorGeneral, Nelson Mutsonziwa, issued a certificate of authority to prosecute….
