adminHospital clerk arrested
AN administration clerk at CBD Specialist and Maternity Hospital in Harare was arrested for allegedly diverting money paid for ceasarean section operation by an expecting mother.
Fidelity struggles to pay miners
Fidelity Printers and Refiners has reportedly been failing to pay small scale gold miners on time as Covid-19 restrictions have limited flights into the country, thereby affecting smooth importation of hard currency cash needed to pay the clients.
Bogwheelers Club ready to rev-off Moto-X
THE Bogwheelers Club, who run the motorcyling sport of motocross in this country, have already applied for the greenlight to kick-start their racing season to the Sports Commission.
Exemption of low-risk sports gazetted
Government has gazetted the legal provisions allowing the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation to classify sporting activities by risk of Covid-19 infection, permit low-risk sport events, and telling sports associations how to apply for exemptions for low-risk activity.
14 more schools for Kariba district
AT least 14 schools are set to be constructed and registered in the Nyaminyami district of Kariba under Government’s Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP).
ZINWA drills 8 boreholes in Mash East
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) has drilled eight boreholes to help improve the water situation at Covid-19 response facilities in Mashonaland Central and East Provinces after Treasury released $7,5 million for the emergency response programme.
Gold dealer loses US$20 000
FOUR armed robbers recently raided a suspected gold dealer in Mutare and stole US$20 000, HP laptop and various cellphones at gunpoint at his home .
Security guard jailed over murder
A Kwekwe security guard has been sentenced to one year in prison for shooting a suspected thief to death.
Court to rule on US$600k land scam
Harare Regional Magistrate Mrs Sandra Mupindu is today expected to deliver judgment in the matter for three Tobacco Sales Limited bosses who were acquitted in 2014 in a case which they were being accused of selling a farm for US$600 000 after it had been gazetted by Government for acquisition under the land reform programme.
Africa Day: Contemporary relevance of Pan-Africanism
In one of his profound reflections, Archie Mafeje argues that: . . . we would not talk of freedom if there was no prior condition in which this was denied; we would not be anti-racism if we had not been its victims; we would not proclaim Africanity if it had not been denied or degraded, and we would not insist on Afrocentrism if it had not been for Eurocentric negations . . . Of necessity, under the determinate global conditions, an African renaissance must entail a rebellion — a conscious rejection of past transgressions, a determined negation of negations. (Mafeje 2011: 31-32)