A GUTU veterinary officer Kudzai Murima, 34, has been sentenced to 45 years in jail for cattle rustling. Murima was found guilty of five counts of stock theft by Masvingo magistrate Mandlenkosi Ndlovu and was slapped with the mandatory nine-year jail term for each beast. His alleged accomplices, nabbed recently, are yet to be tried….
DESPITE the government reviewing upwards allowances for its employees in the health delivery system, health workers still feel their employer’s gesture was half-hearted as it fell short of their expectations. This comes after the authorities have increased allowances for health workers as they bid to lift morale within the public service. Senior Hospital Doctors Association…
In honour of International Women’s Day, the CHINA Africa Economic and Culture Exchange Research Centre (CAECERC) gathered in Mbare with a group…
PARLIAMENTARIAN Job Sikhala says he will continue piling pressure on the State to prosecute or free him after a regional magistrate once again declined to let him go. Sikhala is accused of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State emanating from a post he allegedly made on Facebook involving a scuffle between a cop and a…
Tamary Chikiwa ZVISHAVANE residents have expressed concern over the continued closure for six months of toilets at the local authority’s main long distance bus terminus owing to a malfunctioning sewer system, posing potential health challenges to the public. The toilets were closed in September last year after the local authority noted that raw sewage was…
THE government has called for an accelerated involvement of women in the social, economic and political discourse of the country in order to fulfil its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Speaking during celebrations to mark the International Women’s Month (IWM) in Harare yesterday, Public Service Commission commissioner Tsitsi Choruma said women had brought to the fore…
HARARE provincial coordinator Tafadzwa Muguti says the government’s implementation of development programmes rests on the impending 2022 national population and housing census. The process of collecting, compiling and publishing demographic, economic and social data of the country is scheduled for April 21 to 30. This will be the first time Zimbabwe embarks on a population…
Shamaine Chirimujiri TWO vendors from Chitungwiza were hauled before the courts yesterday for allegedly assaulting and robbing a Harare municipal police officer of his possessions worth US$265. According to State papers, on March 4 at around 1500 hours at Montagu Shopping Centre, Robert Mpala, 30, and Farai Kashonga, 35 and nine other accomplices who are still…
Shamaine Chirimujiri A GREYSTONE Park Primary School teacher, Rugare Murombedzi, 42, who is accused of submitting forged sick leave documents to the school head has alleged blackmail by his superiors. Murombedzi told the court that the blackmail was emanating from her previous encounter with her school head, Isaac Zheve, who had allegedly sexually harassed her…
This International Women’s Day, and for years to come, every woman, regardless of social background should believe in herself and be confident…
