ELEVEN cars and counting!. Last weekend, Clemence Muhle — a physiotherapist based in Rusape won yet another car at the OK Grand Challenge, bringing to 11 cars he has won since 2012. Over the years, Muhle and members of his family won five Huawei smartphones, three 1.5 tonne Toyota Dyna trucks and eight other cars….
THE government has partnered with the World Bank (WB) to revise the national gender policy (NGP), as part of the initiative aimed at enhancing gender equality in the country. According to a recent Bulawayo City Council (BCC) report on gender mainstreaming, the ministry of Women Affairs, in partnership with the WB conducted consultations in April…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THE United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) says at least three million people out of which two million are children are in need of humanitarian assistance in the country this year. In its latest report titled humanitarian situation report released on June 5, Unicef said at least US$30 million is required to alleviate…
BY YVONNE NCUBEin BULAWAYO THE government has hailed Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for the role they play in the socio-economic development of the country. In a speech read on his behalf by the minister of small and medium enterprises, Sithembiso Nyoni, at an MSMEs who have made significant strides graduation ceremony in Bulawayo…
PARLIAMENT has recommended regular rotating of State security agents deployed in mining areas to reduce mineral leakages, avoid collusion and corruption by law enforcers and mining officials. In a report tabled in the National Assembly on Wednesday by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Security, it was noted that the rampant illicit mining was…
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Evangelista Kabasa, yesterday granted former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s son, Siqokoqela, $200 000 bail pending appeal for his rape conviction. Mphoko is challenging his conviction and 20-year sentence after he was in May this year found guilty of raping his niece by Bulawayo regional magistrate Elijah Singano. The accused made…
THE Supreme Court has upheld a High Court ruling in which a judge declared that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) did not have to release an electronic voters roll to the public. Last year, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare North MP, Allan Markham, took Zec to the High Court demanding the release of…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it will decommission one of its major water supply dams, Umzingwane, in August in a development set to further worsen the city’s water woes. Bulawayo, which is currently grappling with perennial water shortages, is on a tight 72-hour watershedding programme. Speaking during a full council meeting…
TWO Harare bouncers, who were arrested last December after they allegedly attacked patrons at the upmarket Pabloz Night Club in Borrowdale in the capital the same month, have been removed from remand. The pair, Blessing Kumunda and Gideon Sanyangore, was arrested on December 29 after the police launched a manhunt for them after a video…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has resorted to taking legal action against a South African civil engineering firm, Terracotta Trading, the contractor of Egodini Mall, as work on completing the multi-million dollar project remains stalled. The last deadline for the completion of the mall was last February, but construction of the first phase, which includes 1…
