Новости за 01.02.2024

Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau Candidates vying for the Chegutu West National Assembly seat in the by-election slated for this Saturday, are optimistic and confident of making it to parliament based on their track record. The constituency has three candidates that are Zanu PF’s Cde Shackmore Timburwa, Mr Gift Konjani of the CCC and Independent […]

Remember Deketeke Herald Correspondent Chitungwiza Municipality has started the verification of offer letters, amid reports of several issued fraudulently through a syndicate of corrupt officials, the local authority’s acting town clerk Mr Japson Nemuseso has said. Mr Nemuseso advised Chitungwiza residents who received offer letters from 2019 to date to visit and verify them. “Council […]

Prosper Dembedza Herald Correspondent Harare Magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro has dismissed an application by George Katsimberis’s lawyer advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka to have Deputy Prosecutor General Mr Michael Reza into the witness stand as a witness. In dismissing the application the magistrate ruled that  Mr Reza cannot be compelled to testify in a case in which […]

Victor Maphosa Mashonaland East Bureau The Marondera brothers, Edwin (38) and Bornwell (34) Chibanda, who were allegedly cultivating mbanje at their homestead illegally were arrested by police this week. The arrest was a result of a tipoff from the public. Upon their arrest, police reportedly uprooted 50 plants of dagga allegedly planted by the two. […]

Herald Correspondent The fraud trial involving a betting company, Bezbets, opened today with the complainant insisting that he was indeed defrauded of his money after winning a bet. Bezbets is facing allegations of defrauding a client of US$5 200 he had won after playing a game. The punter told Harare Magistrate Mr Simon Kandiero that […]

Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau A Karoi man who misrepresented to the Agricultural Rural Development Authority (ARDA) that he owned a farm with irrigation equipment to receive farming inputs has been nabbed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC). The man, Simbarashe Changachimire (46) was arraigned before the courts yesterday on allegations of fraud after he […]

Joseph Madzimure Senior Reporter THE ruling party Zanu PF candidate for Seke constituency, Cde Munyaradzi Kashambe is confident of an emphatic victory against independent candidate Mr Willard Madzimbamuto formerly of CCC. Cde Kashambe sourced transformers for Dunstan and St Michael Primary schools in Ward 22. Speaking soon after handing over the transformers, Cde Kashambe said […]

Crime Reporter TWO Zhombe men who decided to go for a swim after they had been earlier drinking beer drowned in a dam on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred at Mhazhe Dam at around 3 pm and police managed to retrieve the bodies of the two victims. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed […]

Crime Reporter A three-year-old girl was recently killed by unknown assailants before some of her body parts were removed in Guruve. The girl, Caroline Makubhwakwa’s remains were found in a galley at the foot of Mavhuradona Mountain on January 25. She went missing on January 17, and police and her relatives had been looking for […]

Zvamaida Murwira in ROME, Italy ZIMBABWE is set to partner the Food and Agriculture Organisation under a cooperation framework that is set to revolutionise the country’s agriculture sector as Harare pushes to restore its breadbasket status in the Southern African Development Community region. With more than 12 high impact dams for irrigation across the country, […]

Wallace Ruzvidzo-Herald Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today preside over the burial of liberation war stalwart and National Hero, Colonel (Retired) Kenny Ridzai Mabuya, who died last week after a short illness. In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage said President Mnangagwa would preside over the ceremony. “The Ministry of Home Affairs […]

Herald Reporter DUTY is now payable on imports of a small range of essential goods, most of which are also produced or at least packed in Zimbabwe, with effect from today, following the repeal of emergency measures taken in May last year to allow duty-free imports when shortages and price manipulations were accelerating price rises. […]

Bulawayo Bureau INFORMATION technology servers are to be set up in rural schools by the Government to enable schools to access textbooks virtually as part of efforts to tackle challenges associated with the shortage of reading material, a contributory factor to a low pass rate. The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) last week released Ordinary […]

Talent Chimutambgi-Bope-Herald Reporter The Government is impressed by the modernisation of the Zimbabwe Newspapers Group (Zimpapers) and its diversification drive which has quality control mechanisms and best standards. Speaking during a tour of Zimpapers in Harare yesterday, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Dr Jenfan Muswere, said he was enthralled by the operations […]

Ivan Zhakata-Herald Correspondent ZIMBABWE and Russia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of standardisation. The MoU was signed by Russia’s Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology and the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ).  The MoU signifies the continuous strengthening of bilateral relations between Zimbabwe and Russia in various sectors of […]