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THE government has scrapped duty for imported agricultural capital items such as machinery and tools as incentives for the horticulture industry to promote import substitution, Agriculture ministry permanent secretary John Bhasera has said. While Zimbabwe used to export about US$143 million worth of horticulture exports, currently the country is only managing around US$65 million per…

Rumbidzai Ngwenya ngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has challenged the government to fully enforce laws that protect the girl-child especially against child marriages. This comes as the nation celebrated the International Day of the African Child yesterday which ran under the theme ‘Eliminating Harmful Practices Affecting Children’. Speaking at the Day of the…

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has re-married, the Office of the President and Cabinet has announced. In a statement yesterday, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said Chiwenga had married Colonel Miniyothabo Baloyi, a serving member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA). “The President Emmerson Mnangagwa wishes to inform the nation that Vice…

AN UNREPENTANT maid has been sent back to jail for three years after she was convicted of hitting her employer’s two-year-old daughter with stones before fleeing the scene leaving the child unconscious having been freed from jail on presidential amnesty. Tecla Nyengerai pleaded guilty to assault when she appeared before Harare magistrate Noticia Shenje stating…

THE court will on Friday rule to either give the late businessman and socialite Genius ‘‘Ginimbi’’ Kadungure’s sisters, Juliet and Neria, cars which belonged to him, but are held by the police or decline the request. Ginimbi died while facing two criminal charges of fraud involving tax evasion resulting in the vehicles, a Bentley and…

Rumbidzai Ngwenya STAFF WRITER ngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw THE police have escalated investigations into the public violence incident which occurred in Chitungwiza’s Nyatsime area where Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists clashed at a funeral of murdered Moreblessing Ali on Tuesday. The violence erupted during Ali’s memorial service with the CCC claiming that Zanu PF…

THE United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) and various partners yesterday signed a pledge to end the scourge of child marriages in Zimbabwe. This comes just a day before the commemorations of the Day of the African Child. According to Zimstats, 33.7 percent of girls under the age of 18 are married in the country and…

Brandon Josphat STAFF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government is set to introduce Covid-19 self-testing kits as authorities seek to increase the number of people being tested across the country. Speaking during a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday, acting minister of Information Jenfan Muswere said the authorities were on high alert in the fight against Covid-19. “The ministry…

RETIRED major general Sydney Bhebhe has died. Bhebhe died on Monday at Avenues clinic in Harare and he was 61 years old.  In a statement, Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant General David Sigauke expressed regret at the untimely passing on of Bhebhe. The late general was born on December 30, 1960 at Masase Mission…