By Nyasha Dube HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has acquitted a Shamva man who was arrested last year of allegedly murdering his daughter in cold blood with an axe. Zexteen Dzemwa was arrested on August 17, 2021 after being accused of attacking his minor daughter with an axe and stick, which caused her injuries…
By Rutendo Ngara TWO Murewa men, who were arrested early this month for vandalising and stealing Zesa cables, have been sentenced to 30 years each by the local regional magistrate’s court. The two, Kudakwashe Jojo, 28, and James Leonard, 37, appeared before the court last Friday facing 15 counts of vandalism. In a statement yesterday,…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Veterinary Services Department in the Agriculture ministry has confirmed that it will start a pilot programme to manufacture anthrax and blackleg vaccines in the first quarter of 2023, and the country is set to save 48 percent of its import bill. Farmers have in recent years lost thousands of their cattle…
By Rutendo Ngara THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has advised farmers throughout the country to start planting as most areas across Zimbabwe have received favourable rains. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the MSD head of forecast, James Ngoma, said although short-term dry spells might be experienced in some parts of the country, farmers should…
A NINE-year-old Tsholotsho girl, who was admitted at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after it was discovered she was pregnant, gave birth yesterday. Medical specialists who preferred anonymity said the baby was born at around 6am yesterday after the mother went through a caesarian operation. Provincial Medical Director (PMD) Maphios Siamuchembu declined to shed more…
By Nyasha Dube INCARCERATED South African-based Zimbabwean businessman, Frank Buyanga, could walk a freeman after a Harare Magistrate yesterday cancelled a warrant of arrest which Interpol had relied on to nab him in Johannesburg last week. This comes as the flamboyant businessman has approached the High Court of Johannesburg seeking to have his arrest and…
By Nyasha Dube A RUSAPE woman has appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court facing allegations of kidnapping two children in 2013 and 2015. Enator Marumani (48) allegedly approached Natasha Chikwanha (29) and Martha Ndinodyei (34) on false pretences before making away with their babies. It is alleged that Marumani had approached Chikwanha on May 21,…
By Nyasha Dube TWO suspected fraudsters were hauled before a Harare magistrate yesterday for allegedly duping an unsuspecting home-seeker into paying a deposit for a residential stand which belonged to someone else. Innocent Maphosa (41) and Tonderai Katsa (38) were nabbed after the complainant, Tinashe Musuwa (29), found the real owner developing the stand that…
Ketty Nyoni nyonik@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE’S readmission into the Commonwealth should not be politicised and the Southern Africa country’s citizens have been encouraged to approach the matter as a united group, the association’s assistant secretary-general Luis Franceschi has said. Franceschi, who is leading a Commonwealth delegation to Zimbabwe, made the call yesterday while meeting government ministers at…
GOKWE Town Council says it has plans to drill solar powered boreholes in all its residential areas to address water challenges the local authority is grappling with. Updating residents in Gokwe yesterday, council chairperson Never Gwanzura said the local authority was targeting to have boreholes installed in six of its wards by year-end. “As a…
