HUNDREDS of National University of Science and Technology (Nust) students are stuck in Bulawayo and cannot go back home due to the inter-city travel restrictions, forcing them to appeal for food donations. Following a surge in Covid-19 cases, the government closed all learning institutions, including universities, and a number of learners who stayed outside Bulawayo…
THE National Aids Council (Nac) outreach programmes to help fight HIV/Aids have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nac chief executive Bernard Madzima said the travel restrictions that have been in place ever since the outbreak Covid-19 have made it difficult to conduct their work in most areas around the country. Speaking during a…
ONE of Zimbabwe’s largest seed companies, SeedCo, yesterday launched a vaccination campaign at the Mandebvu community in Mt Hampden to help complement the government’s drive to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19. Most of the seed manufacturer’s workforce at their headquarters is drawn from the Mandebvu area. This comes as the government gave the private sector…
THE Covid-19 pandemic has hit Bulawayo City Council (BCC) with majority of its workers being forced to quarantine after testing positive, a…
TEACHERS have appealed to the government to come up with an initiative which will see them receive free data bundles so that…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has warned of an impending serious water shortages and the proliferation of diseases if activities on wetlands are not curtailed. HCC environmental management unit head Lisben Chifunde yesterday said efforts to protect the capital’s wetlands are still at a consultative stage. A taskforce has since been put in place and…
A HARARE woman, who was allegedly run over by a private taxi back in 2018, has dragged the mushika-shika driver and his employer to court demanding US$15 000 in compensation. In summons filed at the High Court, Gertrude Gumbochuma claimed that Naison Maraire hit her with a car in July 2018 whilst she was walking…
MASHONALAND Central Provincial minister Monica Mavhunga, has taken former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s sister, Rosemary Chidhakwa, to the High Court seeking her eviction from a portion of a farm in Mazowe that she allegedly illegally occupied. This comes after Chidhakwa approached the same court last month with a lawsuit of her own and accused Mavhunga…
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) yesterday took its inoculation exercises to Harare Central Prison where hundreds of inmates were vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. This comes as the country is currently grappling with a third wave of the pandemic which by Wednesday had infected 91 120 people and killed 2 809…
POLICE have recovered five motorbikes after arresting a Silobela man for allegedly stealing the vehicles from Bulawayo on different occasions. Bulawayo Provincial police spokesperson Abednico Ncube yesterday said law enforcement agents arrested Bruce Ndlovu, 31, for allegedly stealing the motorcycles valued at $546 000. “I can confirm police in Bulawayo have arrested…Ndlovu from Tshokotse village…
