By RUTENDO NGARA ZIMBABWE has called for a united front of African countries that grow tobacco to stop the intended ban on the marketing of the golden leaf through the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty. The FCTC treaty is the first global health treaty that was signed in 2003…
By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it is working on setting aside at least 40 percent of the land in the city for high rise buildings in a move aimed at curbing sprawling of suburbs while also saving the limited urban space. Speaking during a stakeholder consultative meeting yesterday, town planning officer…
A COALITION of six fringe opposition parties, which are in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), have formed a coalition to contest in the forthcoming harmonised elections slated for later this year. Trust Chikohora, who is the leader of the opposition Coalition for Democrats (CODE) would lead the new alliance, called the Zimbabwe Coalition for Peace…
AS EXPECTED, Zanu PF has deferred its internal polls which were scheduled for this weekend, to allow the party enough time to vet the slew of CVs submitted by people from all walks of life aspiring to represent it in this year’s crunch elections. In this regard, the party’s politburo will meet in Harare on…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has extended its voter registration blitz by five days. This is to allow more prospective voters to register for the country’s beckoning crunch national elections. This comes after the elections management body’s current blitz was last week disrupted by power cuts and bad weather.Zec is targeting to register more than…
HIGH Court judge, Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa, has granted an order declaring that the clause used by the Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition MDC’s congress to expel its vice president, Elias Mudzuri, on January 21, 2023 is constitutionally invalid. Clause 11 of the party’s constitution provides that the outfit’s members who take matters to the court and the…
EMELDA Marizani, a Chivhu woman who was arrested in 2020 for killing four of her daughters in cold blood, has been found guilty and convicted by the High Court and she will be sentenced on March 24. Marizani was facing quadruple murder charges after she slit her daughters’ throats and set the house on fire….
By Rumbidzai Ngwenya THE government of Zimbabwe yesterday received Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment worth US$288 000 from the European Union (EU) to improve trade and cooperation between the two. The equipment that will benefit government ministries and agencies, including the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) included 71 laptops, 10 heavy duty printers, 45 desktop…
By Brandon Josphat A LEADING civil society group says authorities need to come up with new measures to end the menstrual health distress that many women and young girls in the country continue to deal with. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, the founder of…
NEW details have emerged in the trial in which Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife, Marry Mubaiwa, is accused of attempting to murder the retired army general while they were in South Africa in 2019 where he was seeking medical treatment. During cross-examination before Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka yesterday, the State’s second witness, Tawanda Dzungudza,…
