The meeting was attended by licensed gold buyers across the country. Said Sakupwanya: My association will be working with gold buyers across the country to ensure that all buyers are taking their productions to Fidelity Printers Refinery. We hope that the prices around the country will be on par to eradicate bogus buyers. The association’s Treasurer General Raj Skorus said the formation of the association will help in the eradication and elimination of leakage sponsored competition which was prejudicing small scale and artisanal miners. He added that the establishment of one union will improve the quality of communication within the gold buyers’ community.
A health expert, Professor Solwayo Ngwenya, who is also the acting CE of Mpilo Central Hospital and founder of the Royal Women’s Clinic in Bulawayo has said reopening schools in the middle of a pandemic was a bad idea. Prince Edward High School in Harare has already recorded seven COVID-19 cases among Form 6 boarding pupils. Speaking during an interview with The NewsHawks reporter Dumisani Nyoni, Ngwenya warned that a coronavirus third wave was probable and will be much stronger than the last two waves. Ngwenya said interactions among schoolchildren will enable the virus to move faster within communities and this will inevitably result in rising infections. Said Ngwenya: I have always said it and will always say that to me really, opening schools, borders and so forth in
20-year-old female armed robber shot dead in a high-speed chase. The woman was identified in a leaked police memo dated March 24 as Lucy Nyakudya (20) of Kuwadzana 1. A female armed robber was gunned down following a high-speed chase and shootout with police detectives in Kuwadzana, Harare, on Wednesday. She was one of the two women who were part of the 7-member gang linked to a spate of robberies and have pending court cases dating as far back as 2009. National spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi revealed that the robbers hit a home in Marimba suburb; making off with US$500, a television set and a cellular phone. He said: We confirm the arrest of Kudzanai Manyonga(35); Tonica Farai Msoro (27); Prosper Magwejani (44); Gilbert Chikukwa (54); Chancellor Thandi (40); Robi
Prophet Makandiwa’s UFIC pastor loses US$20 000 after buying a non-existent stand in Harare. Pastor Armstrong Chitauro allegedly lost the money to Rodrick Kuvarega of Kambuzuma, Harare. Kuvarega today appeared at the Harare magistrate court charged with fraud. A pastor at United Family International Church(UFIC) lost US$20 000 to a self-styled intermediator between land barons and home seekers, who sold him a non-existent residential stand in Harare. He was not asked to plead to the charges when he appeared before magistrate Ms Tafadzwa Miti, who remanded him to April 6 on $10 000 bail. Allegations leading to Kuvarega’s arrest are that sometime in April 2018, Pastor Chitauro was looking for a residential stand to buy in Harare. He allegedly told Pastor Chitauro that there
ED reveals: Opposition leader secretly gets Covid-19 jab at a foreign embassy. Yesterday, the President told reporters soon after being publicly vaccinated in Victoria Falls that he had heard that an opposition figure had secretly received the jabs. Some politicians in the opposition have Nicodemously received the Covid-19 vaccines even as they continue to discourage their supporters from getting the scientifically proven vaccines from China. “It is rumoured that some people from certain political persuasions have gone to certain embassies quietly to get vaccinated. As time goes, we will get to know them,” the President said. Zimbabweans are currently being vaccinated using the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines secured from China, while the country is expecting deliver
3 robbed during a visit to the cemetery. The robbers, who are still at large, went away with US$90, cellphones and a laptop. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said they were still investigating the matter. Three Bulawayo residents were on Saturday robbed at knifepoint by two men and two women at West Park Cemetery. He said the victims were from Mahatshula and Nketa 9 suburbs. “On March 20 at 4:20 pm, the complainants visited the West Park Cemetery to check on the state of their three relatives’ graves. They parked their cars opposite Green Spar Beer Hall near West Park Cemetery and walked to the gravesite,” police said. “While still searching for the grave numbers of their relatives, two men appeared from the west side and ordered them to l
Pothole kills 84-year-old Mount Darwin woman. Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the accident. An 84-year-old Mount Darwinwoman died on the spot when a Nissan lorry she was travelling in hit a pothole and veered off the road before falling in a ditch yesterday. “I can confirm a fatal road accident along Glendale – Centenary highway where Sangras Maswi died on the spot, ” Mundembe said. Allegations are that a 15-year-old minor was driving the lorry with five passengers on board when he hit a pothole and failed to control the truck. The truck fell in a ditch and one persondied while the other was seriously injured.
President Mnangagwa Commissions National ICT Device Factory: Pics. His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa is commissioning ZITCO, a National ICT Device Factory in Harare this morning. He will also hand over computers for public sector workers manufactured by the Zimbabwe Technology Company (ZITCO). ZITCO is a joint venture between TelOne, Chinese company Inspur and a Government-owned entity and is involved in the assembling of computers, laptops, tablets and other technological gadgets. It is the first company in Zimbabwe to assemble computers locally and has the capacity to produce 150 000 gadgets annually at its plant in Msasa, Harare. See the pictures below
MASVINGO – There shall come false prophets! A man from Dzimbi Village under Chief Chirumhanzu in Mvuma learned the hard way that not all prophets are men of God after a man of cloth advised him to bring his money to the shrine so he could pray for it. The money then disappeared at the holy place. Patrick Musasa (55) told his client Joseph Muchakata to bring his US$6 000 to the shrine because there were evil spirits after it. He said prayers at the shrine would ensure that the money was safe. Unbeknown to Muchakata, Musasa and his co-accused Madzibaba Shadrack Gwatiringa (34), Alex Muzondiwa (46), Francis Makopa (65) and Conrad Ngamera (18) had connived and plotted to steal the money. After the prayers and on his way home, Muchakata realised that he no longer had his money. He tr
Zanu PF will hold a Politburo meeting tomorrow (Thursday) at its Harare headquarters, the party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said. In a statement, the party’s Secretary for Information and Publicity Khaya Moyo urged members to be punctual. He said: The Secretary for Administration Cde Dr O.M. Mpofu wishes to advise all members that there shall be a Politburo meeting to be held on Thursday 25th March 2021 at The Home of The People’s Revolution, ZANU PF Headquarters commencing 1000hours. All members should be seated by 0945 hours sharp. Zanu PF normally holds Politburo meetings on Wednesdays but the party’s First Secretary, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in Victoria Falls today where he was expected to officially launch the Second Phase of the COVID-19 Vaccina
