HARARE’s district Aids coordinator, Agnes Dembedza has urged adolescent girls to have the power to negotiate for safe sex when indulging with much older men. Dembedza said there is need to acknowledge that there is a lot of intergenerational sexual activity across the country which sees much young women sleeping with men twice their age….
THE government has moved in to bridge the gap between the official and parallel exchange rates in order to sustain the current price stability in the country’s economy. This was said by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya in his midterm monetary policy statement last Thursday. “The Bank is addressing the gap between the…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Mashonaland West director of Local Governance, Cecilia Chitiyo and three accomplices on charges of criminal abuse of office. Chitiyo and her team face nine counts of allegedly charging USD$5 000 as an “administrative fee” on all land developers in the province to get land for housing developments during…
Incarcerated cleric Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday passed away at Chikurubi Maximum Prison Hospital where he was serving a 20-year jail sentence for rape due to Covid-19-related complications. Gumbura, who had 11 wives and 30 children, was 65 at the time of his death. Zimbabwe Prisons and Correction Services (ZPCS) spokesperson Meya Khanyezi confirmed the RMG…
A FRESH storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with a number of the coalition’s bigwigs fiercely resisting a move by its leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, to forgo primary elections and let communities choose their parliamentary candidates for the 2023 polls. Insiders in the tension-ravaged alliance told the Daily News yesterday that the controversial plans were tabled during…
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza says women business owners must be brave enough to embrace technological innovation to boost their incomes, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic. Since the advent of the pandemic in March last year, those businesses which had already adopted an e-commerce approach have managed to stay afloat since they can interact…
AUTHORITIES say they will persist with their current policies which have steadied the economy and resulted in relatively stable prices of many basic consumer goods. Presenting his mid-term monetary policy statement (MPS) yesterday, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Mangudya, pictured, also expressed confidence that the economy would continue on its recovery…
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka says the country is running out of land to redistribute to prospective new indigenous farmers with the waiting list now standing at over 250 000. This comes at a time the country is facing a rapid increase of human population, which is putting extraordinary pressure on the country’s natural resources available,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to shun divisions and work together to improve the country’s socio-economic fortunes regardless of who wins elections to govern the nation. Speaking at State House yesterday, at the launch of his biography — A life of Sacrifice — Mnangagwa beseeched citizens to “craft beautiful lessons of reconciliation, national unity, national peace,…
THE government is laying the groundwork to eventually establish provincial councils nationwide as provided for in the Constitution, Local Government minister July Moyo, has said. The provincial councils were elected in the 2013 and 2018 polls, but the officials were not sworn in ostensibly because there were legal issues that needed to be dealt with…
