A WOMAN from Budiriro, Harare, reported her husband of less than two months to the police after he allegedly raped her eight days before they began co-habitating. The man, Owen Goche, 38, appeared in court on Friday facing a rape charge before he was granted US$50 bail by magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa and remanded to November…
A WOMAN from Mutare allegedly hired the services of a suspected forger to create fake documents that could get her daughter enrolled at a nursing school in Cyprus. Lilian Mafuso, 51, of Datvest in Mutare appeared before Harare magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa last week facing fraud charges before she was granted a US$100 bail and remanded…
By Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO A QUEENS Park woman in Bulawayo has been nabbed for stabbing a patron with a broken beer bottle following a misunderstanding at a local bar in Bulawayo last Thursday.Patricia Ncube, 45, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Vivian Ndlovu facing a charge of attempted murder after she stabbed Samukeliso Chiremba, 39, three times…
VETERAN public relations administrators George Manyaya and Constance Makoni won the best Public Relations Officer (PR) and the PR practitioner of the year Awards respectively at a glitzy event hosted by the Marketers Association of Zimbabwe (Maz) last Friday. Speaking to the media after receiving the award, Manyaya, who is currently the general manager for…
By Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A MAN from Queens Park West suburb in Bulawayo who robbed school pupils of their cellphones on numerous occasions has been sentenced to an effective 19 months in prison. Leornard Tafirenyika Nyabadza, 43, appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Learnear Khumalo last Friday facing two counts of theft. He pleaded not…
By Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE and Zambia are partnering on the treatment of sickle cell anaemia in a bid to promote awareness on the disease. Sickle cell anaemia is a group of disorders that cause red blood cells to become distorted and break down resulting in shortage of blood in the body.Speaking to Daily News…
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over local supermarkets and tuck shops that are selling illegal alcoholic beverages, saying all efforts will be made to bring the culprits to book. Speaking during a press conference in Harare yesterday, minister of Industry Sithembiso Nyoni said the ministry‘s primary mandate was to protect consumers from taking unsafe and hazardous…
THE spread of Covid-19, the worldwide pandemic that made the world close its doors for near[1]ly two years, necessitated the creation of a system which could allow people, in particular litigants, to access justice and the legal system online. And from that need was born the idea of the much anticipated electronic court system, which…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT SMALL-SCALE miners have decried the inconsistencies in rural district councils (RDC) taxing regimes saying it has grossly impacted their operations. Speaking after paying a courtesy call to the new minister of Mines, Zhemu Soda on Friday, Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya said rural councils should instead come up with a…
FARMERS have been urged to promote the production and consumption of traditional millet varieties across the social divide as the grains play…
