Powertel inks US$100m network upgrade deal

PowerTel Communications, a subsidiary of State power utility Zesa Holdings, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding and non-disclosure agreement with Ghanaian company Vobiss Solutions Limited for a US$100 million network upgrade and rural datafication programme.

Gimboki land scandal: Govt steps in

  Cletus Mushanawani News Editor MINISTER of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Advocate Misheck Mugadza has raised a red flag over the illegal parcelling out of residential stands…

Double life sentences for Benza cousins’ killers

  Cletus Mushanawani News Editor JUSTICE finally prevailed for the slain inseparable Benza cousins after a Mutare High Court judge, Justice Isaac Muzenda, sentenced the two assailants to double life…

Taxi driver burns ex-lover, daughter to death

A Chipinge pirate taxi driver last week Friday sprinkled some petrol on his ex-girlfriend’s cottage and burnt her and their daughter to death in a crime of passion that has shocked the farming town.

Chipinge leads tech revolution as engineer designs drones

  Luthando Mapepa Chipinge Correspondent A Chipinge-based engineer has designed surveillance drones and is in the process of making the prototypes using local resources. Engineer Donald Mazwati Mlambo (30), a…

Govt intensifies efforts to combat GBV

  Tendai Gukutikwa Post Reporter GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development, is intensifying efforts to combat gender-based violence and is in the process…

Strict measures, education needed to tame cholera

  Tendai Gukutikwa Health Reporter As the cholera outbreak persists since February, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) teams have been urged to involve religious and local leadership in raising…

Mutare mayoral elections postponed

  Ray Bande Senior Reporter THE postponement of the elections to elect a new mayor for Mutare is shrouded in controversy, amid stunning revelations that it is part of a…

After all the hard work, Tenax feel hard done

  Ray Bande Senior Reporter   MUTARE-BASED Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) outfit, Tenax FC worked long and hard to end the season on top of the Eastern Region…

Triumphing over TB, HIV amidst stigma

  Wendy Nyakurerwa-Matinde   BACK in 1995, about one-quarter of adults in Zimbabwe were infected with HIV as the virus had spread rapidly during the 1980s. The first AIDS case…