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Mnangagwa's govt plans 5-year 200k housing project
GOVERNMENT yesterday said plans were underway to construct 200 000 houses throughout the country in the next five years, most of them skyscrapers in a bid to reduce Zimbabwe's housing backlog....Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aims his guns at Zanu-PF land barons
IT HAS emerged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa blew a gasket on Wednesday after he learnt that some Zanu-PF bigwigs were allegedly land barons who were using the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains t...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 16:00hrs | 2807 | by Staff reporter
Govt moots downsizing stands in low-density areas
GOVERNMENT is considering cutting the sizes of stands in low-density suburbs to create room for more human settlement saying there was a lot of space which was underutilised.The move, which is...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to reorganise illegal settlements
Zanu-PF has resolved to reorganise, and where possible regularise, illegal settlements to avoid the demolition of houses without providing alternative settlements. This comes as defiant land b...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:55hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Let's vanquish opposition, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa wants his ruling Zanu-PF party to vanquish the opposition in by-elections and the 2023 general elections, citing inspiration from the performance of Chama Cha Mapinduzi in...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 3763 | by Staff reporter
Mbare tender scandal rocks council
Harare City Council has awarded a tender for palisade fencing and refurbishment of Mbare Bus Terminus to a local company when the same work had already been done for free by transport operators recent...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF attends to demolition of houses
ZANU PF national Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda yesterday continued with interactive meetings with Harare South residents where he received concerns regarding the regularisation of their stand...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
'Gold' Baron Dube jailed 10 years
POPULAR gold dealer, Baron Dube (44) of Habane Extension Township in Esigodini has been sentenced to an effective 10 years in prison for killing a member of a rival gang following a dispute at a mine....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 1895 | by Staff reporter
Police blitz nets 54 000 panners
POLICE have intensified a crackdown on illegal activities throughout the country, with over 54 513 illegal miners nabbed under a blitz code named Operation Chikorokoza Ngachipere/Isitsheketsha Kasiphe...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
UK imposing sanctions on Zanu PF pressuring SADC to do same - is it too little too late
One of the biggest Zimbabwe foreign policy blunders the British government has ever made in the last decade was to believe Mnangagwa's foolish rhetoric that Zimbabwe had changed for the better followi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4942 | by Wilbert Mukori
British lingering nostalgia for an Empire forever lost
Mr Speaker, I rise to inform this House that, on 27 October, the British House of Lords, conducted yet another of their meandering debates on the situation in Zimbabwe. The fascination with Zi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:09hrs | 302 | by Hon Kindness Paradza
Zimbabwe scoffs at Britain's attempts to link Rushwaya to Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwean government has reacted with consternation a recent debate in the British House of Lords describing the animated and long deliberation as a "shocking level of invasive interest" in the S...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4927 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces new sanctions from colonial master UK
THE United Kingdom has threatened to slap President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a new sanctions regime over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country and failure by the administration to dea...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 3800 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's farm ownership exposed after 'illegal settlers' evictions
THE eviction this week of dozens of families that had settled on Old Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi, controversially owned by property mogul Phillip Chiyangwa, has exposed the local municipality's complicity...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3460 | by Staff reporter
Harare City chefs dupe govt
Harare City Council (HCC) bosses could have fleeced the government of ZWL$12m after selling acres of State land in the capital as the illegal parcelling out of land in the capital reaches a new low....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2432 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1297 | by Staff reporter
4 killed in Kuwadzana plane crash
FOUR people were killed and three others seriously injured when a Kariba-bound private plane crashed and extensively damaged two houses in Kuwadzana 5 suburb in Harare yesterday morning.The fo...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:41hrs | 12260 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza shelves demolition plans
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality has shelved plans to demolish houses and other buildings in 35 illegal settlements across the town after a special full council meeting held at the weekend resolved to halt th...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter
Recalls have crippled council business, says Mafume
New Harare mayor Jacob Mafume (JM) still believes that the capital has what it takes to regain its Sunshine City status if city fathers can get their act together. Last week, he sat down with NewsDay ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Stern warning to State land sellers
All those invading State, council and private land and creating bogus housing cooperatives are criminals that deserve to be arrested and prosecuted for fraud, corruption and land invasions, despite th...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:04hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
'Opposition will never rule Zimbabwe'
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa, yesterday declared that the opposition will never rule Zimbabwe as they are allegedly working to reverse the gains of the liberation struggle.Spe...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:03hrs | 5158 | by Staff reporter
Govt should compensate owners of demolished homes, says Chinamasa
THE government has an obligation to compensate all home owners whose illegal houses were demolished by local councils after they were duped by land barons to build homes in undesignated areas....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:33hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs box over positions, power spoils
THIS weekend's Zanu-PF elections to choose the party's parliamentary candidates for Harare are the latest activities of the former liberation movement to be hit by debilitating chaos - with senior off...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 21:36hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa says Nguwaya demanding bribe from jailed land baron
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa says controversial businessman Delish Nguwaya was illegally visiting a land baron in prison and demanding four stands as bribery while also abusing President Emmerson Mn...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1415 | by Staff reporter
Land baron submits CV to chair DCC, Tsholotsho up in flames
Tsholotsho's local traditional leadership and villagers are seething with anger after Zanu PF recently accepted a CV from a land baron and local businessman Owen Sibanda who has expressed intere...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 09:29hrs | 3028 | by Robbie Ncube
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 250 | by Staff Reporter
'Police Boss Godwin Matanga selling fraudulent stands' Mliswa says
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Commissioner General of the Police Godwin Matanga of working with Minister of Local government July Moyo to sell fraudulently acquired stands...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 4463 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US$23m 'vanishes' from NRZ
A top National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) official has been accused of misappropriating US$23 million in what insiders say could be a glimpse of the financial rot at the struggling parastatal....Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2293 | by Staff reporter
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 277 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Zanu-PF warns corrupt law officers
Zanu-PF party has warned that it is ready to have law enforcement agents conniving with opposition MDC Alliance-led councils in the rampant illegal allocation of residential and commercial stands in u...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa shocked why residents continue voting 'corrupt' MDC Councillors
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson, Patrick Chinamasa is at pains to understand why urban voters continue to vote for corrupt councillors in the opposition who neglect in providing adequate service delivery ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2559 | by newzimbabwe
RBZ directs sale of 20% shop forex
Twenty percent of all new foreign currency taken by Zimbabwean businesses from local customers must now be liquidated at the official exchange rate, when deposited in a domestic foreign currency bank ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
#July31 and #Zanupfmustgo: Another failed political heist in the making
The 31st July movement which is being propelled mainly by Jonathan Moyo and his G40 associates is another failed political heist in the making, after all else has failed to unseat, a duly elected gove...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2616 | by Zvinyaningwe Mangwiro
Youths hail government support on housing
Youths in Goromonzi District have hailed government's support in ensuring that citizens get residential stands through regularisation of illegal settlements in the area.Recently, National Hous...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 06:17hrs | 596 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's govt to regularise illegal settlements
Government has embarked on an exercise to regularise all illegal settlements in urban centres across the country and has engaged experts to expedite the process.Speaking at a Zanu-PF provincia...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2084 | by Staff reporter
Jason Machaya's son dies in car crash
THE son of former Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Jason Machaya, Foster, died in a car crash on Wednesday night along the Gweru-Mvuma Road in an accident that also claimed the life of a popular G...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 3825 | by Staff reporter
Govt launches regularisation programme
Government has launched the national regularisation programme, which is expected to tighten the screws on land barons by bringing sanity to all informal settlements countrywide. Land barons ha...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 2512 | by Staff reporter
'My wayyy!' The Bantu cry of anguish
Graft, our Waterloo. When the arrest of big corruption practitioners are made, its in dramatic fashion like an epic Hollywood movie. In no time, more often than not the cases crumble lik...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 241 | by Thomas Tondo
Umguza Zanu-PF members in land scam
ZANU-PF land barons are allegedly parcelling out land to party supporters illegally at Insuza, Umguza district for R5 000 for a plot.MDC Insuza ward 11 councillor, Tapson Moyo told Southern Ey...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1783 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Mthuli Ncube admits failure
UNDER pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has once again admitted that the government is struggling to fix Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis.This comes as the hapless Zim dollar, which N...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:41hrs | 9665 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's epic Z$ headache
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has admitted that Government is struggling to fix Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis. In a briefing to Parliament, Ncube said that Government was trying to arre...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4235 | by Staff reporter
Council freezes stands allocation
Desperate home seekers in Harare will have to wait a bit longer to get stands from council after the local authority temporarily froze new stand allocations and suspended operations of the allocation ...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Arresting inflation in Zimbabwe
The response I received from last week's instalment on why the Zimbabwe dollar must be put on the gold standard was overwhelming.Many readers wanted to know when the Zimdollar was going to be ...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:50hrs | 883 | by Bart Star-James
RBZ plots ambush to rein in exchange rates
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will henceforth use 'ambush raids' as a strategy within its array of policy interventions as the monetary authorities battle to break persistent buffeting of the dom...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1375 | by Staff reporter
Gold Baron tries to exonerate self as murder trial resumes
THE trial of gold dealer Baron Dube who allegedly shot and killed a member of a rival mining gang in Esigodini following a dispute, resumed yesterday at the Bulawayo High Court with the accused person...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:13hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
ZACC hunts down corrupt ministers
A former Cabinet Minister, a Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and a prominent property mogul face arrest for criminal abuse of office, fraud and abuse of funds following investigations into la...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
RBZ offers reward to locate cash baron
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is offering a reward to anyone who will help locate a man captured in a video circulating on social media on Monday counting new $5 notes. In a statement, RB...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:29hrs | 1446 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa reads riot act on Norton mealie-meal barons
FIERY Norton MP, Temba Mliswa Saturday vowed to close all shops in his constituency found overcharging or selling government's subsidised mealie-meal in foreign currency.On Saturday, Mliswa te...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 09:36hrs | 450 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's mayor orders halt to murambatsvina after outcry
Harare mayor Herbert Gomba on Sunday ordered a halt to the demolition of informal market stalls following a public outcry.The City of Harare and the government have used the cover of the coron...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 15:44hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
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