Hazel Marimbiza FARMERS have been urged to conduct thorough research before exporting their products as they risk running losses. The poor prices being offered to farmers locally have prompted an increasing number of farmers to consider the export market. Some of these farmers, however, according to Matabeleland North Agritex provincial officer Dumisani Nyoni, are plunging…
Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council (HCC) has embarked on a blitz to recover over $17 billion it is owed by ratepayers. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, HCC acting corporate communications manager Innocent Ruwende said the city had resolved to disconnect water and blacklist defaulters. “We are blacklisting defaulting customers so that…
Hazel Marimbizain Bulawayo POLICE in Bulawayo have warned female drivers to be on the alert as robbers are reportedly targeting them and snatching valuables from their motor vehicles. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said they were investigating a series of theft cases from motor vehicles where female drivers driving…
A NORTON man will spend the next 18 years behind bars after the High Court found him guilty of murdering his 11-month-old son by bashing him on the head before setting him ablaze to cover up the murder. Justice Priscilla Munangati-Munongwa, who presided over the matter last week, convicted Peter Lankeni of the gruesome murder…
By Brighton Muronzeri THE United Nations (UN) has pledged its commitment to help Zimbabwe fight corruption by providing technical support in order to spur economic development. This follows a meeting between UN resident coordinator Edward Kallon and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda Moyo, pictured, on Monday in which they discussed how corruption suppresses…
HIGH interest rates and inflation are eroding producer prices, thereby threatening the output of the coming 2022/23 summer cropping season, farmer unions have said. This comes as strategic crops such as maize are being paid in local currency which has in the past few months been ravaged by inflation leading to increases in the prices…
OVER 50 pedestrians are killed monthly in road crashes, Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) acting managing director Clifford Gobo has said. He was giving oral evidence to the Transport and Infrastructure Development parliamentary portfolio committee yesterday in Harare after the TSCZ and students had petitioned Parliament on the need to reduce speed limits in…
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation boss Henrietta Rushwaya accused of attempting to bribe a Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe official at the airport to let her pass through with gold, wants the charges dropped. The trial opened yesterday with Rushwaya distancing herself from the alleged offence, arguing she did not have money to give to anyone.Represented by…
Dionne KanyowaSTAFF WRITERkanyowad@dailynews.co.zw A FREEDOM bid by a war veteran Dzingai Nevhunjere who was jailed for stealing cattle from a white farmer during the land reform programme in 2002 has flopped after the High Court dismissed his bail pending appeal application. Nevhunjere was in January given a six-year jail sentence before one year was suspended…
Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has completed water supply maintenance works it was undertaking and will soon restore supplies to affected parts of the city. This comes after BCC recently introduced a 48-hour water shedding in most suburbs as a result of pipe bursts that occurred on one of the…
