BULAWAYO mayor David Coltart has issued a strong call for the establishment of a waste processing facility at Ngozi Mine, warning that the city’s main landfill poses serious health and environmental threats. Speaking during a city council meeting yesterday, Coltart said the extent of pollution at the site was “deeply concerning”. “We are facing a…
AN operations manager with the now-defunct Premier Services Micro-Finance (PSMF) appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing corruption charges. PSMF was a subsidiary of the Premier Services Medical Aid Society (Psmas). Emmanuel Kamutayi was remanded in custody by regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa facing charges of allegedly concealing a personal interest. It is the State case that Kamutayi concealed…
muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF central committee member and ex-deputy minister of Finance, David Chapfika, has died. He was 68. He died yesterday morning in a tragic road accident along the Harare-Murehwa road, near his farm, Hurudza, in Mashonaland East. Chapfika, a former executive director of the collapsed Universal Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe Ltd (Unibank), was first elected legislator for…
Yvonne Ncube in Bulawayo A MAKOKOBA man has been sentenced to an effective 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman. Butho Ncube had appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga facing rape charges. Ncube pleaded not guilty, but was convicted after a full trial. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison with two…
STUDENTS from St John’s College have donated relief materials to 54 students at Churchill Boys High School in Eastlea, Harare, whose hostels were destroyed by a fire last month. The fire, which reportedly was caused by an electrical fault, triggered a gas explosion, destroying the male boarders’ valuables such as beds, uniforms, blankets, food, and…
AUTHORITIES have been taken to task over the failure of fire brigade teams from the Hwange and Victoria Falls airports to respond to road traffic accidents along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway in Matabeleland North Province. This has at times led to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) fire tender located over 400 kilometres away being forced…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A MAN from Njube in Bulawayo has been remanded in custody facing theft of vehicle and theft of trust property charges. Alexandra Ngwenya, who had been on the run since December 2024, was arrested on June 16 at the intersection of Nketa Drive and Masiyepambili Way in Tshabalala Extension. He pleaded…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO POLICE in Midlands Province have launched a hunt for a 29-year-old man who allegedly attempted to murder his girlfriend in a suspected arson attack at Empress Business Centre in Zhombe. The girlfriend is battling for her life at Kadoma Hospital. Nyasha Chaza of Samambwa Village in Empress is accused of deliberately setting…
RUTENDO NGARA AN ESTATE executor yesterday accused Agriculture deputy minister Davis Marapira of threatening to have him unlawfully sent to prison. Nelson Marimo made the claims yesterday at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts where he is facing three counts of US$161 036 fraud after he misrepresented himself to the Master of the High Court. According to…
LEGISLATORS want authorities to urgently push through Parliament the Road Accident Fund Bill for public hearings on the proposed Bill to start. This comes as the government recently approved the principles of the Road Accident Fund Bill, which seeks to compensate injured and deceased road accident victims. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the chairperson…
