FARMERS who exhibited their services at the just-ended Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) this year say they enjoyed brisk business after recording improved sales than last year. The Daily News spoke to various farmers at the trade fair who spoke highly of the annual event. Farm and City head of marketing Walter Tayengwa said their…
ZANU PF has whipped its aspiring legislators into refraining from perpetrating violence and ordering them to preach peace as they hit the campaign trail in their constituencies ahead of this year’s harmonised elections. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa had, on several occasions, implored citizens not to fight over the polls. Speaking to the Daily…
THE Civil Registry department will carry out a three-month mop-up national mobile civil registration exercise starting Monday as the country prepares to hold its general elections before the end of August. In a statement, the department says the exercise would run up to July. “The Civil Registry Department wishes to advise members of the public…
WESTPROP Holdings Limited have, in agreement with the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX), postponed the listing ceremony to a date yet to be announced. We wish to advise all our existing and prospective clients that WestProp Holdings Ltd will soon set a new date for the listing ceremony which could not proceed as planned on…
HARARE magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa has deferred to May 3 his ruling in a case where Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala is being charged with obstruction of justice. Sikhala is accused of posting a video on social media, claiming that Citizens Coalition for Change member Moreblessing Ali was killed by Zanu PF supporters. The State is…
GOVERNMENT has attributed the snail’s pace of the country’s broadcasting digitisation programme’s implementation to lack of funds. According to the government, the nation’s digitisation programme, which aims to convert the country’s broadcasting services from analogue to digital, is currently 42 percent complete. The programme is expected to be completed by 2025. Speaking at a media…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE Consumer Protection Commission (CPC) has said it is working on a number of enforcement regulations to aid in the protection of consumer rights in the country. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), CPC research and public affairs manager Kudakwashe Muderere said the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accorded the late former Public Service deputy minister and son of the late vice president Simon Muzenda, Tongai Muzenda, liberation hero status. Muzenda, 57, died on Wednesday evening in a tragic accident after the vehicle he was driving hit an electric pole in Borrowdale, Harare. In a letter yesterday addressed to…
FOUR Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) executives have been hauled before the courts after they allegedly stole money from the company to fund their personal gold-buying scheme. PSMAS chief executive Farai Muchena, 54, group strategy and performance executive Victor Chaipa, 49, group secretary Cosmas Mukwesha, 50, and group strategy performance manager Polite Mugwagwa, 41,…
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has banned the use of some 48kg liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders that are being smuggled into the country for domestic use. According to Zera, the gas cylinders being smuggled into the country were tampered with and are unsafe to use and no one bears responsibility for their maintenance…
