A MAN from Beitbridge in Matabeleland South Province was on Friday sentenced to 15 years in prison by a local magistrate for raping a three-year old toddler. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) confirmed the conviction and sentence over the weekend. “On 16 October 2024, the complainant’s mother left the complainant in the custody of her…
A MUTARE-based female smuggler, Maria Mwarehwa, has been fined US$150 after she was found guilty of stealing baby diapers worth US$50 that had been impounded from her by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra). “On 2 December 2024, at around 1700hrs, the police impounded a bus carrying smuggled goods, including baby diapers belonging to Maria Mwarehwa,…
AN ESTIMATED 7,6 million people will require urgent humanitarian assistance in Zimbabwe due to the El Nino-induced drought, a food and nutrition crisis, floods and public health emergencies, Unicef has said. As a result, the international aid agency said it requires US$36,55 million next year as it plans to reach 1.6 million people, including 1.3…
POLICE have intensified their border patrols at all ports of entry to curb smuggling into the country. This comes as the police in Mutare arrested three foreign nationals for smuggling goods in Cashel Valley last week. “Police in Mutare deployed on an anti-smuggling operation intercepted a Hino truck with foreign number plates and arrested three…
THE government is planning to take significant steps to cushion formal businesses from unregulated traders, the permanent secretary of the ministry of Industry, Thomas Utete Wushe, confirmed yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — Utete Wushe also said authorities would soon introduce more measures to further promote the wider…
A HEALTH expert has painted a bleak picture of the conditions obtaining at many of the country’s public hospitals. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health on Tuesday, the chief director of curative services at the Ministry of Health, Maxwell Hove, described the state of most public hospitals as distressing. “You walk into a…
VETERANS of the country’s liberation struggle have written to Time Bank seeking to be included among 10 groups of people to be…
Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw MOTORISTS with vehicles unlicensed for the past two years have been given a month ultimatum to do so or risk total deregistration. This comes as police have intensified their blitz against unlicensed vehicles and those unregistered, warning drivers of these cars they would not hesitate to impound them in order…
Brighton Muronzereyi STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s sucessor should be chosen on merit and the contender’s ability to unite Zimbabweans, liberation war stalwart and former Cabinet minister, Rugare Gumbo, said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — the respected Gumbo was also of the view that it was…
TIME Bank has increased its loan offer to the government, to help pay white former commercial farmers who lost their land, as well as other people who are owed huge sums of money by the State. In this regard, the bank said at the weekend that it had raised its offer by US$3 billion —…
