AT LEAST 60 exhibitors have confirmed their participation in this year’s Gweru Agricultural Show set for the 28th of this month. According to the show manager, Victoria Chikukwa, they were targeting 120 exhibitors for the four-day event ending on October 31. “So far more than 60 exhibitors have confirmed participation and we hope the figure…
THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has denied that Sakhile Mnangagwa is the biological son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as Sakhile is at the centre of an ongoing court case in which he was allegedly defrauded of over US$60 000 by the manager of a local company in a botched vehicle and…
In a state of preparedness for the 2021/2022 agriculture season, the Lands ministry said the government was prioritising the planting of six…
THE government is targeting to produce 65 000kg of crocodile skin for export during the 2021/2022 agricultural season under the Presidential Community Fisheries Scheme. With Zimbabwe ranked the world’s second-largest exporter of the reptile products after the United States, a Lands ministry report on the state of preparedness for the 2021/2022 agricultural season showed that…
TWO suspected fraudsters have been nabbed on allegations of intending to defraud an army colonel of US$10 000, misrepresenting to be State spies capable of allocating him a farm. Joseph Banda, 67, and Prince Mandende, a soldier, were charged with fraud when they appeared before Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi yesterday. The State opposed their admission…
AN 18-year-old Zvishavane teen allegedly raped his 14-year-old mentally ill niece several times at their rural home for ritual purposes. The juvenile from Vengesa Village under Chief Masunda, whose name cannot be revealed to protect the minor, told the court that he was directed by a traditional healer in Shurugwi to rape the girl in…
ZAPU leadership has finally cleared Sibangilizwe Nkomo, the son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, to contest the party’s presidential elections at its congress at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre later this month. This comes as efforts to block Sibangilizwe, through a National People’s Council’s (NPC) recent resolution which stated that a presidential candidate should have…
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) is embarking on farming activities across all its prisons with a view to contribute a significant percentage to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Speaking while conferring badges to promoted commissioned officers in Harare on Tuesday, ZPCS commissioner general Moses Chihobvu said they had a crucial role to…
ZIMBABWE Ambassador At Large to the Americas and Europe, Uebert Angel, says the country is open for investment from any country across the globe, including those that have political differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. Speaking recently during the on-going Africa-Dubai Investment Business Summit in the Arab nation, Angel said political differences must not stand…
FORMER Harare mayor Herbert Gomba has lost his bid to have his criminal charges quashed after Harare regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna threw out his application for exception. Gomba is jointly charged with suspended Harare City Council acting town planner Samuel Nyabezi and town surveyor Munyaradzi Bowa in a case in which they are accused of…
