TRADITIONAL leaders have advocated for harsher punishments for those who engage in child marriage and adolescent pregnancies. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chiefs’ Council president, Chief Fortune Charumbira, pictured, said it was high time authorities put in place stringent measures to protect the girl child. “We must take measures that protect our girl child….
By Yvonne Ncube AN UNREPENTANT Nkulumane woman is in trouble after she was nabbed for assaulting and cutting off her 18-year-old step-daughter’s finger with a knife at a time she was out on bail for a robbery crime she had allegedly committed earlier on. Sibonokuhle Nyathi, 25, pleaded guilty yesterday when she appeared before Bulawayo…
By Nyasha Dube HARARE magistrate Dennis Mangosi has ordered the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to set a trial date for Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) leader Obert Masaraure before January next year. The union leader was in 2019 arrested on charges of allegedly plotting to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, and the matter…
THE Zvishavane Town Council is reportedly spending at least $6 million per week on water treatment chemicals, a development that the local authority has blamed for compromising service delivery in the mining town. Speaking at a budget consultation meeting yesterday, a town council committee member, Tinashe Chifashu, said the town was purchasing seven tonnes of…
By Yvonne Ncube THREE teenagers were on Tuesday handed wholly-suspended sentences following charges of assaulting and stabbing a colleague. Moses Moyo, 18, Godknows Mkhwananzi, 18, and Khayalakhelihle Moyo, 19, all of Village 4 Insuza, Umguza district, pleaded guilty of stabbing a friend over an undisclosed misunderstanding before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda. The trio was slapped…
By Hazel Marimbizain BULAWAYO THE United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) says it is scaling-up support for a group of local youth involved in innovative entrepreneurship initiatives which provide clean energy lights for rural areas. This comes after Unicef collaborated with young people from Zimbabwe to come up with an initiative (imaGen Ventures) which seeks…
POLICE have called on lawmakers to come up with a social media policy in the face of the mushrooming of citizen journalism in the country which has increased the spread of falsehoods. Speaking during a safety and security awareness dialogue which was hosted by Gender and Media Connect (GMC) in Harare yesterday, national police spokesperson…
PEOPLE with disabilities (PWDs) yesterday launched an organisation that is set to campaign for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of next year’s elections. Speaking at the launch of Disabilities for Economic Development (ED) in Harare yesterday, founder of the organisation Jimayi Muduvuri said they were going to work with Zanu PF structures so that they can…
BY NYASHA DUBE LEADERS of the Miracles of Heaven Housing Co-operative (MHHC) are caught up in a legal battle after the society approached the High Court accusing seven of its former members of illegally selling residential stands in Waterfalls, Harare. In its application, the MHHC and its committee chairperson Elliot Piki claimed that William Dangaranga,…
By Nyasha Dube MDC Alliance students council secretary-general, Rujeko Hither Mpandwa, who was on trial for allegedly insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa on social media, has been acquitted by a Kariba magistrate. Mpandwa, 24, who was arrested in August 2020, appeared before regional magistrate Tendai Banda, facing charges of undermining the authority of the president as…
