By Yvonne Ncube A SELF-STYLED prophet from Phuthuma A village in Fort Rixon, Matabeleland South province, has been sentenced to three years in prison for assisting a man to rape a 13-year-old girl, claiming that he was casting out evil spirits. Hlabani Mano, 42, appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Collet Ncube facing a charge of…
THE United States foreign relations committee held confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Rwanda and Niger ambassadorship nominees last week….
BY ALMOT MAQOLO CBZ Holdings (CBZ), one of the biggest financial services groups in the country, is bidding to plough back into the community (Cooperate Social Responsibility— CSR) by giving people economic opportunities through the launch of its philanthropic unit, CBZ Foundation. According to the group, the programme will focus on health, education and vulnerable…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THE Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) has tightened this year’s marketing season operations by introducing e-marketing in a bid to do away with side marketing and other shady activities. Last year the marketing season was marred with side marketing which led to de-registration of 37 000 growers and some merchants had their…
By Ketty Nyoni ABOUT 1 600 youths are set to benefit under the youth capacity building programme which is being funded by the government of Finland. The programme which is being run by the Dzikwa Trust will see the 1 600 youths from Dzivaresekwa being equipped with ICT, entrepreneurial and employability skills. Speaking at the…
IN NEW Ashdown Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once-thriving forest, makeshift…
A REPRESENTATIVE union for civil servants said on Thursday it had rejected a new salary increment offered by the government because it…
THE National Building Society (NBS) says it is targeting to build at least 2 000 houses in Bulawayo as part of complementing the government’s efforts to provide affordable housing for citizens across the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday on the sidelines of a stakeholder engagement meeting, NBS chief housing officer Peter Robert Mukome…
By Yvonne Ncube AUTHORITIES in Matabeleland South province have called on the government to intervene in stopping the fast-spreading child-to-child marriages in the region. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday on the sidelines of the Dabane Trust meeting organised by villagers in Tshilanyemba, ward 7 councillor Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu said what was worrying was that the…
By Rutendo Ngwenya LEADING food processor, National Foods Limited (NFL), yesterday donated food stuff worth thousands of dollars to four children charities in Harare. The four beneficiaries were Runyararo Orphanage, Homefield Centre, Ruvimbo Special School and Felly Orphanage. Each organisation received rice, mealie-meal, porridge, popcorn, sugar beans, baked beans, biscuits and flour, among other items….
