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Harare is a man-made disaster
Residents' associations are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis following the decommissioning of the Prince Edward Water Treatment Plant in Chitungwiza due to critically low water levels. ...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:08hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
How smartphones have changed gaming
You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't carry a smartphone with them everywhere they go. Smartphones have become an indispensable part of our daily lives and have become much more than tools...Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 11:33hrs | 201 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe referees for Cosafa Cup
Brighton Chimene and Thabani Ruzario are among the match officials for the 2024 Cosafa Cup, starting Wednesday in South Africa. Referees have been undergoing training in Johannesburg, includin...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over neglect of Mbare Flats
Harare residents are voicing strong concerns over the neglect of Mbare Flats by the City of Harare. Through the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA), they highlight the severe public health ri...Published: 08 Jun 2024 at 12:56hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Diplomatic tiff between Botswana and Germany: the magnificent ELEPHANT
The president of Botswana was not angry per se. He should never be angry if he is aware of the global positioning of states: which country is at the top of the other: who is the big brother and what a...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 18:10hrs | 22 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa, elected officials renege on election pledge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa together with hundreds of elected officials have reneged on their pledge to enhance the provision of basic amenities to the public, a few months after they were voted into...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa stun Morocco to clinch Afcon quarter-final slot
Second-half strikes from Evidence Makgopa and Teboho Mokoena earned Bafana Bafana arguably the shock result of an Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) characterised by upsets as they sent World Cup finalists...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare residents plot protest over cholera
HARARE residents have threatened to protest over the unending cholera outbreak, accusing relevant authorities including government, of not doing enough to stop the disease from spreading.Accor...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC Alderman name removed from the nomination list
The newly installed Alderman for Chiredzi Town Council, Gibson Hwende's name was missing among other nominated candidates, causing confusion and chaos during the Citizen's caucus at Dorman hall, Hippo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe-based NGOs in panic mode
A new law governing operations of non-governmental organisations is likely to be operational in Zimbabwe before year end.Predictably, there is uproar and panic in the NGO sector, including som...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe midfielder honoured in France
ZIMBABWE international midfielder Marshall Munetsi has been recognised for his rich vein of form for French side Stade de Reims by being included in the Ligue 1 team of the month for February by...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti chides July Moyo
PROMINENT lawyer, Tendai Biti, has shot salvos at Minister of local government, July Moyo, saying he is walking on slippery ground after the latter's lawyers applied for a postponement of a matter Har...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo's wings clipped
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has no right to rescind resolutions made by urban councils or meddle in the running of local authorities, a High Court judge has ruled.In her ruling followi...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Historic reception for Morocco's Atlas Lions on homecoming
Following a World Cup performance that was well above the North African country's wildest dreams, Morocco's national football team returned home to a hero's welcome.The team landed at Rabat-Sa...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 51 | by Moyo Roy
Nurses desert Harare Council clinics
HARARE City Council clinics have a shortfall of at least 300 nurses, crippling health delivery services in the capital as more health workers continue to quit their jobs over poor pay.Mayor Ja...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt doles out US$6m in Harare rubbish saga
A company awarded the controversial 30-year Pomona waste management deal in Harare may have pocketed at least US$6 million since March from government as the City of Harare has refused to pay a single...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors appointed to plum posts in Harare
Harare Mayor, Jacob Mafume has reshuffled council's committees in a development which has seen Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors appointed to influential posts.Eight committee c...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Residents petition Parly over devolution funds abuse
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has petitioned Parliament to protest how the Local Government ministry is dictating how devolution funds should be utilised by local authorities....Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare cancels Pomona waste deal
The Harare City Council has resolved to cancel the Pomona waste management deal that was imposed on the local authority by the Local Government ministry.Council had resolved to suspend the 30-...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF influence in ZBC programming, coverage is a myth, claims Information ministry
THE ministry of information has disputed claims the ruling Zanu-PF has a direct hand in programming at State broadcaster, ZBC, and said opposition parties invited by the institution do not respond pos...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is July Moyo new face of corruption?
THE government has willfully violated the country's constitution by abusing devolution funds without the required legislation amid fears that the abuse of millions of dollars meant for other services ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents petition City Council to cancel the Pomona waste deal
Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has petitioned Harare City Council (HCC) to terminate the dubious Pomona Waste to Energy Deal.The controversial deal between Georgenix company and ...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 11:40hrs | | by CHRA
Council officials in birth records scam
Officials at Harare City Council clinics are allegedly demanding kickbacks ranging between US$5 and US$10 to issue out birth records for newly born children, preventing from accessing the critical doc...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villagers in court over witchraft allegations
TWO Guruve villagers were yesterday arraigned before Guruve magistrates courts for assulting a neighbour whom they accused of bewitching their son....Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 22:46hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe drifts into 2023 election mode
NO date has been set for the 2023 elections, but Zimbabwe is already getting into election mode, with evident electioneering and voter registration awareness campaigns by political parties and various...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:02hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
It's a cruel world for black people
So the world decided to gather in Glasgow, Scotland, last week to try and save the planet from what we are told could be an imminent apocalypse caused by rising global temperatures.Well, Bisho...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:08hrs | 8 | by Bishop Lazarus
No to extortion on maternal health services in council clinics
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) calls upon the Harare City Council to act decisively and stop harbouring and nurturing extortionist practices by health personnel in council clinics ag...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by ZUJ
Residents associations champion voter mobilisation
RESIDENTS' associations countrywide have resolved to engage in a massive voter mobilisation campaign to ensure that the majority of citizens participate in the 2023 elections. About 20 residents' orga...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Hlatshwayo Davis named health director of U.S. city of St Louis
Zimbabwean Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis has been named director of health for St. Louis, the second biggest city in the state of Missouri in the United States of America.The infectious disea...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bid to block Mafume flops
Government yesterday failed in its bid to stop Harare mayor Jacob Mafume from reporting for duty claiming he would interfere with investigations into his alleged abuse of office charges.Mafume...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Who will guard the guards?
EVER wondered "who will guard the guards themselves?" This age-old political question, which raises concern over the conduct of those who are charged with enforcing rules on others, is interrogated in...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 9 | by CHRA
Harare faces grave diggers, nurses crisis
HARARE City Council has been hard hit by a shortage of grave diggers with the few remaining at the local authority's eight cemeteries overwhelmed as they are burying at least 40 people per day....Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
$400m for urban road rehab
Work has already started on repairing urban roads under the Government's Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP), set up after the MDC-run urban councils had failed, spending much time on polit...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents must resist road levy
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) is calling all residents of greater Harare and motorists to resist the introduction of a roads levy by the City of Harare.The move comes at a t...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Combined Harare Residents Association
Zinara told to hand over vehicle licensing to councils
COMBINED Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has written to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to hand over vehicle licensing responsibilities to local authorities to enhance transpare...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
The brutality of March 11, 2007 and its impact
Back in Zimbabwe, the struggle continues.The Save Zimbabwe campaign (SZc) is a broad coalition of organisations spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (CA).Its members include ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe cities plagued by open defecation
WITH flies hovering all over the vicinity of the crowded slums of Epworth, an urban settlement approximately 25km east of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, laden plastic paper bags lie scattered on stree...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium's budget state secretary, Eva De B...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 20:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kambuzuma residents swimming in sewerage
AT a community meeting facilitated by Combined Harare Residents Association in (CHRA) Kambuzuma last week, it emerged that res-idents are living with raw sewage due to the failure by the City of Harar...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally listed amongst 100 'Most Influential Young Africans' of 2020
PR & Rating firm, Avance Media and Africa Youth Awards have announced the 5th annual publication of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans list for 2020. The list is curated to recognise young Af...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa blasts ZACC, SACU
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa Wednesday urged Parliament to act on a land scandal in Aspindale, Harare involving businessman Billy Rautenbach and the state as the anti-corruption bodies were failing to prote...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge summons AG Machaya to court over devolution
ATTORNEY-GENERAL (AG) Advocate Prince Machaya has been summoned to appear in court today and explain himself on government's delays in acceding to a court application filed by water rights campaigners...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 09:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Progressive Play - Perfect for 2019
Sometimes it feels that there are not enough hours in the day to complete all those different tasks we have set ourselves and this had led to most of us enjoying anything that is convenient and that m...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 22:14hrs | | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa's aide defends Gukurahundi genocide
The announcement by the government that it was rolling out a number of measures to help victims of Gukurahundi to get birth certificates and death certificates for their slain relatives has divided op...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elliot Moyo's death, Twitter reacts
Most social media users don't believe the reports, saying there could be yet another resurrection miracle on the way.Several Zimbabwean news publications reported on Monday that Brighton Ellio...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 09:42hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Harare borehole poisoned
Residents from Harare's Mabvuku suburb who depend on the Kamunhu Shopping Centre borehole were left without water for four days after the borehole was allegedly poisoned.The incident was disco...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Violence breaks out at fuel queue
Chaos broke out and degenerated into violent fist fights at a fuel queue in Harare after some motorists wanted to jump the queue and be served first.Zimbabwe has been experiencing acute fuel short...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 08:56hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
What if witchcraft is our technology?
One of my aunts is a drama queen. She is bubbly and energetic, and a storyteller of note. Whenever she is around, we all find ourselves surrounding her and listening to tale after tale of her adventur...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Thandekile Moyo
WATCH: Linda Masarira drunk... causes violence in a bar
A video alleged to be that of the National Spokesperson of MDC-T Linda Masarira causing havoc in a bar and threatening to beat up revelers has gone viral on social media. Linda is yet to comment on th...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 08:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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