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Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITER THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has introduced chilli growing in rural communities close to national game parks to deter elephants from intruding into nearby settlements and reduce human-wildlife conflicts. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, ZimParks spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said as custodians of national parks the authority had embraced…

HIGH Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi, has granted an application filed by a local company, Delatfin Engineering, in which it sought to evict police officers who are illegally occupying a farm in Mount Hampden, Zvimba, Mashonaland West province. In its application, Delatfin cited in their official capacity Police Commis – sioner General Godwin Matanga, police’s…

By Ketty Nyoni IN AN effort to improve basic healthcare and end child mortality in the city, the Harare City Council (HCC) has begun a two-week door-to-door survey on the health welfare requirements of children under the age of five. In a statement at the weekend, HCC health services director Prosper Chonzi said the exercise…

By Regis Chingawo TEACHERS’ unions have called on the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) to increase the examination markers’ allowances as the payments are “poor and demoralising”. In an interview with the Daily News, the president of Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Takavafira Zhou accused the examination body of making “unilateral” decisions in pegging…

THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has been taken to court by an Advanced Level candidate, Yolandah Musonde, who failed to obtain her results despite having sat for the examinations in 2020. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) initially wrote a letter of demand to the examination body in September this year on behalf…

By Nyasha Dube A CHINHOYI man Jonah Chiramba has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after the High Court found him guilty of causing the death of a taxi driver Sydney Zuruvi in 2017. Chiramba was arrested after he attempted to hijack Zuruvi’s Honda Fit vehicle which the now deceased was using as a…

By Yvonne Ncube A BULAWAYO magistrate court has ordered that Godknows Ncube, 26, facing stock theft charges must go through psychiatric tests to establish if he is mentally stable after he allegedly stole three goats at a local farm and slaughtered them at the crime scene. Ncube from Nyamandlovu appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Busani Sibanda…

By Nyasha Dube HIGH Court judge, Justice Lucy Mungwari, has acquitted a Guruve man, Herbert Mikunku, ruling that he was acting in self-defence when he kicked Togarepi Kamanga in the chest resulting in injuries that led to his death. According to court documents, on April 8 2018, Kamanga went to his father in law’s homestead…