Tamary Chikiwa ZVISHAVANE residents have expressed concern over the continued closure for six months of toilets at the local authority’s main long distance bus terminus owing to a malfunctioning sewer system, posing potential health challenges to the public. The toilets were closed in September last year after the local authority noted that raw sewage was…
THE government has called for an accelerated involvement of women in the social, economic and political discourse of the country in order to fulfil its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speaking during celebrations to mark the International Women’s Month (IWM) in Harare yesterday, Public Service Commission commissioner Tsitsi Choruma said women had brought to the fore…
HARARE provincial coordinator Tafadzwa Muguti says the government’s implementation of development programmes rests on the impending 2022 national population and housing census. The process of collecting, compiling and publishing demographic, economic and social data of the country is scheduled for April 21 to 30. This will be the first time Zimbabwe embarks on a population…
Shamaine Chirimujiri TWO vendors from Chitungwiza were hauled before the courts yesterday for allegedly assaulting and robbing a Harare municipal police officer of his possessions worth US$265. According to State papers, on March 4 at around 1500 hours at Montagu Shopping Centre, Robert Mpala, 30, and Farai Kashonga, 35 and nine other accomplices who are still…
Shamaine Chirimujiri A GREYSTONE Park Primary School teacher, Rugare Murombedzi, 42, who is accused of submitting forged sick leave documents to the school head has alleged blackmail by his superiors. Murombedzi told the court that the blackmail was emanating from her previous encounter with her school head, Isaac Zheve, who had allegedly sexually harassed her…
This International Women’s Day, and for years to come, every woman, regardless of social background should believe in herself and be confident…
CANNABIS is the best alternative to the growing of tobacco with better returns to the farmer and the national purse, researchers have said. Chief executive of King Kong Organics, an organisation specialising cultivation and extraction of cannabis oils, Rene Joseph told the Daily News yesterday that there were greater opportunities that come with cannabis growing as compared…
Renowned author Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was arrested together with Julie Barnes for participating in the July 31, 2020 demonstration, has trashed the allegations, arguing there was nothing criminal about her conduct. The two were charged for allegedly participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, breach of peace or bigotry. But through their…
Andile Tshuma A 22-YEAR-OLD Plumtree man was arrested after killing his friend’s employer for allegedly underpaying his colleague. Comfort Nkomo, 22, of Lumawe Village in Mayobodo allegedly attacked a 62-year-old woman Munzara Mushoriwa. Nkomo’s friend, Gift Ndebele, who is still on the run and allegedly also took part in the murder, was employed by the…
Shamaine Chirimujiri CANDRINA Investments Private Limited (Pvt Ltd) has dismissed as malicious claims that Glen Forest Memorial Park is operating illegally and that there are moves to exhume about 40 000 bodies from the cemetery. The company, which runs the cemetery, at the weekend came out guns blazing, accusing one of its “disgruntled” shareholders, Joseph…
