THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says the amount of grain deposited with the national silos so far has surpassed last year’s intake. …
THE Zimbabwe Commercial Rabbit Breeders Association (Zicorba) has charmed other regional producers after registering a phenomenal growth within one year, with its…
EMBATTLED Victoria Falls town clerk Ronnie Dube is back in office after a commission of inquiry set to investigate gross misconduct and abuse of office charges against him cleared him of any wrongdoing. The findings presented during Thursday’s special full council meeting absolved Dube before ordering his reinstatement with immediate effect. “Following the full special…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) is set to reopen the city’s major flea market, Mupedzanhamo, which was closed last year in order to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Speaking to the Daily News in the aftermath of the demolitions of illegal stalls in Mbare recently, council spokesperson Michael Chideme said they were hopeful…
TEACHERS’ unions have called on the government to change the school calendar so that learners do not go to school in winter, as the Covid-19 virus spreads easily during the cold weather periods. This comes as the country is reeling in the throes of rising Covid-19 infections, as learning institutions have also become hotspots, forcing…
A SELF-STYLED prophet has been arrested for raping two women that had sought help from him in their quest to conceive. Tichaona Matarutse was not asked to plead to the allegations when he appeared before Harare magistrate Denis Mangosi yesterday. He was remanded in custody to July 7 and was advised to apply for bail…
ZANU PF has moved a notch up in preparations for the impending mini-general polls for 117 parliamentary and local government vacancies after it directed all provincial structures to collect CVs from aspiring candidates. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa hinted in April that the ban on by-elections owing to restrictions brought by the Covid-19 pandemic…
A MAZOWE man has dragged former first lady Grace Mugabe, pictured, to the High Court demanding her eviction from a farm that she allegedly illegally occupied in 2008. In summons filed last Friday, Langton Chapungu accused Grace, the wife of the late former president Robert Mugabe, of illegally occupying his farm and building structures on…
THE newly-appointed National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is currently seized with the Gukurahundi issue and has already sent teams to Matabeleland and Bulawayo provinces. The 1980s disturbances in the two provinces are believed to have claimed the lives of 20 000 civilians while the late former president Robert Mugabe described the episode…
FIVE former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MPs, who were recalled from Parliament in March, have dragged speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda to the High Court, demanding their reinstatement to the august House. In the application, Kucaca Ivumile Phulu, Settlement Chikwinya, Willias Madzimure, Regai Tsunga and Chelesile Mhlanga, cited Mudenda and the Parliament of…
