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
A self-proclaimed prophet, Tapuwa Freddy was allegedly caught in an exam cheating storm last week at a local university, Zim Morning Postreports. Freddy reportedly smuggled a mobile phone into the exam room at the Women’s University of Africa where he was writing a Theology exam. The clergyman, who is the founder and leader of Goodness and Mercy Ministries, mistakenly dropped the phone from his lap and walked out of the room in shame. A classmate told the publication: He smuggled the phone and hid it on his lap but I don’t know how he dropped the phone. He left the exam room in a huff before the invigilator confronted him. It was an embarrassing episode and classmates made fun of him, questioning why he failed to use the spiritual spectacles to spot the exams. Th
1 killed and 17 injured in Zupco, kombi accident. The crash of a Rujeko bound Zupco commuter omnibus which occurred on Wednesday, March 17, claimed one life while 17 others were injured, after a tyre burst near Masvingo Polytechnic College, TellZim News has learnt. The deceased Abigail Chidanhika died on the spot after sustaining multiple head injuries when the commuter omnibus burst its front tyre, veered off the road and overturned before landing on its roof. Masvingo provincial police spokesperson Inspector Kudakwashe Dhewa confirmed the incident and said the body was taken to Masvingo Provincial Hospital mortuary. “A female adult Abigail Chidanhika (34) died on the spot due to multiple head injuries and the other 17 were seriously injured and taken to Masvingo provin
President of Zimbabwe President ED Mnangagwa will be getting his first Covid 19 vaccine on Wednesday
Inmates can now attend funerals and weddings. Only a few conversant with the Prisons Act have over the years, successfully applied for temporary release. Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS), spelt out the law while responding to an outcry that suspected land baron Felix Munyaradzi had attended a funeral during his incarceration last year. Prisoners can be temporarily released to attend funerals, weddings and other important family functions, under escort of prison officers, provided they apply and the Minister of Justice,Legal and Parliamentary Affairs reckons they are a safe risk, prison authorities have said. A relative, Mr Collen Mavhundutse, had deposed an affidavit insinuating the temporary release of Munyaradzi was scandalous. However, ZPCS spokesperson princip
Report: Mugabe’s daughter Bona and hubby Simba Chikore struggling to complete vast Harare Mansion. A well-placed source from the Mugabe family reportedly told the publication that the mansion sits on 22 hectares of land is expected to gobble US$20 million for it to be completed: Former President Robert Mugabe’s daughterBona and Simba Chikoreher husband are reportedly struggling to complete the mansion they were building in Harare’s Umwinsidale Suburb, The NewsHawks exclusively revealed. At the moment the total cost of the house is expected to be at least US$20 million. This is because the owners of the property are now struggling to finish the house, which at the beginning was supposed to cost US$39 million. President Mugabe was reportedly financing the pr
Drama and chaos as 77-year-old woman dies and rises thrice before actual death. Visualise the superstition, terror and chaos. This has been a true-life experience for Sinotsi villagers in Bulilima’s Ward 8 in Matabeleland South. Imagine being at a funeral wake and the corpsesuddenly comes back to life. Villagers have seen Ms Thembeni Moyo (77) “resurrecting” not once, not twice but three times in two days. Moyo, died her final death on March 9 and was buried last Friday. The family went against rural convention, under which the body is buried within two days. They kept a vigil for five days to ensure Moyo was really dead. Some medical studies suggest Moyo could have been suffering from the Lazarus syndrome, deriving from a biblical scenario where Lazarus w
Zanu PF’s Youth League seems to have gotten the formula right this time with their new House of Cheneso shop. If it was not located at the party`s headquarters, it would have passed for any other fashion shop in the country. The designs they unveiled are in sync with what fashion conscious Zimbabweans are wearing. Explaining the concept underpinning the store, the revolutionary party’s Acting Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Tendai Chirau said besides being a place where members of his party can get original regalia, this is one of the ways the Youth League will be contributing to the party`s financial standing.
Universities to resume face-to-face learning. Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira said universities have the green light to start lessons physically as long as they do four basic things to prevent the spread of the virus. Universities are set to resume face-to-face learning and examinations from next week in a phased approach, adhering to Covid-19 prevention regulations. He said the institutions should ensure that there is social distancing, sanitising, wearing face of masks and regular temperature checks. ‘‘Universities are to open for face-to-face learning under World Health Organisation (Who) guidelines and should open in a phased approach for social distancing purposes. We are not going to compr
