JUDGES, sitting at the Gweru and Gokwe High Courts this week, handed lengthy prison sentences to convicted murderers for crimes committed in the Midlands Province in recent years. A Shurugwi man, Lonyaka Mlambi, 44, was sentenced to 20 years for murdering his wife. “On 29 November 2023, Mlambi and the now deceased were at their…
ORGANISED business wants an urgent meeting with authorities to share ideas around the volatility of the ZiG, as well as rising inflation and prices of basic goods in the country. Speaking in Harare yesterday, after a meeting of manufacturers and retailers, the new president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) — Mucha Mkanganwi —…
AUTHORITIES say they are working on formalising the operations of most illegal ports of entry to counter the trafficking of persons and goods across countries. This comes as the government is introducing computerised and online border management systems at all border posts to improve efficiency, eliminate errors, reduce human interface and curb potential corruption. This…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday gave 90 offroad vehicles to chiefs as part of the government’s efforts to ensure the welfare and dignity of traditional leaders is improved. Speaking during the handover of the vehicles in Harare, Mnangagwa said the service vehicles would ensure that chiefs carry out their “critical duties more efficiently and effectively.” “My…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zanu PF members to desist from using social media to sow seeds of division among senior party leaders. Mnangagwa told a Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare yesterday that there was need for party leaders to act against those using media platforms to divide the party. “It is incumbent on…
GOVERNMENT says it is targeting to import about 430 000 metric tonnes of grain to feed the nation up to March next year. This comes as the country is grappling with the debilitating effects of the El Nino-induced drought that was declared a state of national disaster by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The grain requirements were…
FORMER Zanu PF national youth political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu says he has quit politics to concentrate on championing the fight against corruption. Tsenengamu was expelled from Zanu PF for intransigence and continued disparaging of senior party members in 2020 before forming his own political party, the Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe. Addressing the media…
THE International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the government of Zimbabwe are intensifying their cooperation to end challenges facing migrants. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday after meeting Public Service minister July Moyo, chairperson of the IOM council Katharina Stasch said their cooperation was meant to find a lasting solution to the challenges facing migrants….
THE Health ministry is carrying out a national mass treatment campaign against elephantiasis, a disfiguring disease spread by mosquitoes infected with the parasitic worm called filariae. The ministry said the mass treatment campaign was meant to prevent disability, pain and social stigma. “It is a public health problem in Zimbabwe and a cause of disability,…
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba commissioned two new magistrates’ courts in Triangle and Chiredzi yesterday as part of the government’s efforts to decentralise the justice system. This comes as the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is constructing additional courts across the country to avoid the unnecessary postponement of trials. “The commissioning of the Triangle Magistrates’ Court and…
