Tobacco farmers, TIMB on collision course
Senior Farming Reporter THOUSANDS of tobacco farmers in Manicaland are on a collision course with the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board for failing to adhere to the statutory stalk destruction and…
South Korea sees ‘digital addiction’
Park Jung-in, an 11-year-old South Korean, sleeps with her Android smartphone instead of a teddy bear. When the screen beams with a morning alarm, she wakes up, picks up her…
Manicaland Contractors Association chapter formed
Business Reporter Manicaland has achieved a milestone in the local built environment when the region became the first port of call of the Zimbabwe Building Contractors Association’s (ZBCA) roll-out programme…
‘Strive to maximise companies’ potential’
Business Reporter THE recently elected president of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe, Mr Lovemore Kadenge, says chartered secretaries should work hard to maximise the full potential…
Bunking ministers face contempt charges
Farirai Machivenyika Harare Bureau— Cabinet Ministers who bunk Parliament now face contempt of parliament charges after the National Assembly yesterday adopted new Standing Rules and Orders. The new Standing Rules and Orders…
MPs raise concern over consultancy firm
Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau MEMBERS of Parliament have raised concern over the appointment of Brainworks Capital to provide consultancy service to the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board in billion dollar…
‘No to food discrimination’
Lloyd Gumbo and Diana Nherera Harare Bureau Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured parliamentarians that no Zimbabwean would be discriminated against from accessing maize that government is importing from Zambia on the…
Speculators risk losing mining claims
Prosper Ndlovu in Victoria Falls THE government has directed mining companies in the country to provide exploration reports on mineral deposits within their claims and warned those who hold concessions…
Gumboot prints gives away rapist
Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter GUMBOOT prints at a crime scene gave away a man from Mvuma who allegedly sodomised and raped a 69-year-old woman. Francis Kapumhura, 33, appeared before regional magistrate Morgan…
Rapist robber to serve 20 years
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent A GOLD panner has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in jail for robbery and rape. Themba Mpofu, 29, an ex-convict from Habane village in Esigodini, had…






