HARARE – Car washing in Karoi’s business district will now attract a fine or imprisonment not exceeding six months following a raft of new by-laws enacted by the town council. Karoi municipality is now charging $20 as a release fee for clamped vehicles anywhere in the council-controlled area. The municipality has also warned car owners…
HARARE – Gospel musician and businessman, Elias Musakwa yesterday told the court how a neighbour who is accusing him of making death threats once trespassed onto his property and disconnected a sound system during a wedding ceremony. Musakwa was appearing before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko on charges of contravening section 186 of the Criminal Law…
HARARE – A 19-year-old woman, reportedly raped by lieutenant-colonel Rangarirai Kembo, was turned away by police officers when she first attempted to report the case, a Harare court heard yesterday. This was revealed during the continuation of Kembo’s rape trial yesterday. The victim’s aunt (identification withheld) later assisted her to report the case. Kembo appeared…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is suffering a shortage of imported second-line drugs to treat HIV victims due to insufficient foreign exchange. Health activists say thousands of patients on publicly-funded treatment programmes are at risk because of the shortage of Abacavir, forcing them to take lower dosages or none at all. Patients are being given a week’s…
MUTARE – Government has expressed dissatisfaction at the quality of skills being churned out by technical colleges, and called on lecturers to go for industrial attachment. Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa said polytechnics should move towards producing high-end engineering technologists with the ability to adapt, re-engineer and even copy imported technologies. “Polytechnics…
HARARE – The Roman Catholic Church has embarked on a massive voter mobilisation drive to ensure the country’s youths participate in next year’s general elections. Speaking to the Daily News on the sidelines of the Roman Catholic national youth conference held at Kutama last week, chairperson of the National Catholic Youth Council Tendai Karombo, said…
HARARE – The Namibia government is letting go Zimbabwean engineering expatriates seconded there on a government-to-government agreement. This comes ahead of the expiry of a five-year Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two nations in 2012. The Namibian government last week appeared to be giving in to pressure from militant labour groups there, which…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has been urged to embrace genetically modified (GM) crops to improve harvests and reduce crop production costs. This comes as government has remained rigidly averse to GM crops, commonly known as GMOs, despite genetic engineering making a rapid entry into agriculture in other African countries such as South Africa and Botswana over…
HARARE – Sakunda Private Limited — a fully-integrated energy supplier that has grown to be the biggest fuel trader with stocks in excess of 200 million litres — is changing its name to Trafigura Zimbabwe. The Trafigura name comes from the Singaporean multinational commodity trading giant’s nomenclature and captures the new shareholding structure. Sakunda has…
HARARE – Total Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Total) has dragged Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Obert Mpofu’s company Khanondo Safaris to the High Court demanding $31 000 for diesel supplied to the firm. According to summons filed on August 17, the parties had a credit agreement, which they entered into in October 2013. In terms…
