WEEKLY NEWS ROUND-UP

Monday

GOVERNMENT finalises tuition fees for universities and colleges with students now expected to pay between $3 500 and $5 000 per semester while those in colleges will be required to pay between $500 and $1 500 depending on a programme.

Those studying Medicine will now be required to pay $5 000 while those taking programmes in sciences, engineering and technology will pay $4 000.

Tuesday

A machete and axe-wielding gang of seven swooped on Nyaradza Business Centre in Gokwe South before attacking and robbing everyone present.

The gang travelling in an unregistered Honda Fit vehicle also forced open shops and looted groceries, mainly alcoholic beverages while assaulting and cursing their victims they found with no money or valuables in their possession.

Wednesday

Zimbabwe Football Association ( ZIFA) appoints Croatian national, Zdravko Logarusic as the new Warriors head coach on a two-year term.

Plans are already underway to unveil the former Sudan gaffer.

Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas who was the interim coach for the national team for six months until December 2019 comes in as the first assistant with Lloyd Chitembwe and Tonderai Ndiraya also making the set-up.

Thursday

The Small to Medium Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe ( SMMAZ) says it is willing to partner Government in ensuring the availability of affordable maize meal on the market.

The SMMAZ was formed late last year to cater for the interests of small and medium-scale players in the milling industry.

In a statement on Wednesday, SMMAZ

interim chairman Mr Davis Muhambi said the association’s main focus was to ensure that small-scale millers played a bigger role in providing affordable maize-meal to the nation.

Friday

Great Dyke Investments starts mining on its Darwendale concessions after years of preparation.

The first box cut, a single rectangular hole made in the surface of the earth, was made yesterday and this serves as the opening of new mines.