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Zanu-PF MP protests neglect of rural roads
ZANU-PF legislator Joseph Tshuma from Tshabalala-Pelandaba has raised concerns about the neglect of rural roads amidst ongoing major road rehabilitation efforts, particularly in Harare ahead of a Sout...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zinara shells ZiG93,9 million to road authorities
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has disbursed ZiG 93.9 million to road authorities for critical road infrastructure maintenance and development projects across the country.A...Published: 20 May 2024 at 07:45hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities target sexagenarian in post-election retributive exercise
ZIMBABWEAN authorities are intensifying a retributive exercise in which they are targeting some perceived opposition political party supporters by arresting and prosecuting them for allegedly committi...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 11:05hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
Blind power consolidation renders Mnangagwa weak
LEGAL and parliamentary affairs independent think-tank Veritas has expressed misgivings over the roles and duties which President Emmerson Mnangagwa assigned to himself and vice-presidents amid concer...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean soldiers' morale hits rock bottom
MORALE among members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) is at its lowest due to lack of funding, which has pushed some members to engage in corrupt activities, a government official has revealed....Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 05:01hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt offices moved for fear of collapse
Illegal gold mining operations have led to the decommissioning of an office complex in Kwekwe that houses critical government departments. These mining activities, taking place beneath the complex, ha...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt offices moved for fear of collapse
Illegal gold mining operations have led to the decommissioning of an office complex in Kwekwe that houses critical government departments. These mining activities, taking place beneath the complex, ha...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fuel storage depot explodes
A petrol storage tank exploded resulting in a raging fire that reduced several vehicles to shells at a fuel storage depot in Kelvin West industrial area in Bulawayo yesterday.With a sudden who...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers steal from Mnangagwa's wife to raise school fees
A RECENT court case has exposed the First Family as having more than one farm, with First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa owning a farm in Glendale, while her husband, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has Precab...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Daring soldiers jailed for stealing from Mnangagwa
Two daring soldiers and a District Development Fund (DDF) driver who stole building materials from the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's farm have been sentenced to 15 months behind bars by Concession m...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 10:54hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
House crumbles in Kwekwe
A Kwekwe family escaped death by a whisker after their flat at Globe and Phoenix compound caved in due to illegal mining underneath the compound.Family spokesperson, Ms Kimberly Rusike, said t...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland region gets only $789,6 million for road projects
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has disbursed $789,6 million towards road development projects in Matebeleland provinces in the first four months of this year out of a combined tota...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Villagers pool resources to repair roads neglected by govt
FED up with government inaction, the tenacious villagers of Hope Fountain in Umguza, Matabeleland North province, have joined hands to repair their heavily damaged roads.The roads in Hope Foun...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Tongai Muzenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has expressed shock and sadness at the death of former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Deputy Minister and son to the late Vice President Simon Muzenda, Tongai, who passe...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 06:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zinara, DDF and devolution to fund rehabilitation of roads
GOVERNMENT will soon start injecting more funds towards road rehabilitation as the rainy season that had stalled works is coming to an end.Most of the country's roads are in a bad state and ha...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens murambatswina II?
Unplanned and chaotic urban settlements without proper sewers, water supply roads and social amenities and with building on land totally unsuitable for human habitation are a serious risk to public he...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Villagers partner Government to rehabilitate neglected road
THE Godlwayo community in Insiza South, Matabeleland South Province has partnered with the Government in a bid to rehabilitate the West Nicholson-Mberengwa Road linking Matabeleland South and Midlands...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
West Nicholson-Mberengwa road is really bad
GOVERNMENT is rehabilitating the West Nicholson-Mberengwa Road linking Matabeleland South and Midlands provinces.The road is one of the five major roads in Matabeleland South that are being ta...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
$130 billion Zimdollars earmarked for massive roadworks
ZIMBABWE will double down on road development projects this year, with Treasury and the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) injecting over $130 billion to rehabilitate about 10 000 kilomet...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Zimbabwe farm invasions loom
RULING Zanu-PF members have formed a shadowy group dubbed "Land for Economic Development (ED)" to fast-track parcelling out of "unutilised" land to party youths ahead of next year's crunch polls....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes senior appointments
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Allen Choruma as Head-Corporate Governance Unit and Mr Christopher Shumba as the director-general of the Rural Infrastructure Development Agency.Both posit...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe transport ministry underfunded
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development says late disbursement and inadequate allocation of funds to the Transport ministry are slowing down road rehabilitat...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assigns Reconciliation Act to Justice Ministry
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assigned the administration of the National Peace and Reconciliation Act to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who needs to give the required su...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets $1 billion for road repairs
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has disbursed about $12 billion to road authorities across the country for road maintenance and rehabilitation since the beginning of the year under...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cement theft halts Zimbabwe bridge construction
Two years after 300 bags of cement for the construction of Simukwe Bridge in Matobo District went missing, resulting in the work coming to a halt, no arrests have been made. Villagers suspect a Distri...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Simukwe bridge construction resumes
GOVERNMENT has resumed the construction of the 200-metre Simukwe River Bridge that links Matobo under Chief Malaba and Bulilima District under Chief Bango.Engineers on site said the project is...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Efforts to end loadshedding by November stepped up
The problems at the huge Hwange Power Station and the small Harare station have been corrected, while negotiations are ongoing for the importation of more electricity as a short-term measure to lessen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga lauds Catholic church
VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has commended the Roman Catholic Church for its contribution in improving the education sector by maintaining high standards at its schools countrywide.S...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
7 tollgate cashiers fired over million-dollar theft
SEVEN cashiers at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) Flamingo tollgate in Gweru have been fired while eight have resigned over a million-dollar theft scandal.Acting Zinara chie...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'To hell with your fire tenders,' councils tell July Moyo
Local authorities in the province have rejected the directive from central government where each council has been ordered to pay for a fire tender to a certain supplier using devolution funds at a ver...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara disburses $7,8bn for roads
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yesterday said it had so far this year disbursed $7,8 billion to local authorities for road rehabilitation projects under the Emergency Road Rehabili...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
DDF drills boreholes for Matabeleland South chiefs
THE District Development Fund (DDF) is drilling boreholes for chiefs in Matabeleland South Province as part of efforts to recognise the traditional leaders and ensure that surrounding communities have...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabes in farm equipment scam
LATE president Robert Mugabe's family has been rocked by a fresh scandal after allegedly selling an assortment of farm equipment belonging to government departments and pocketing the money, it has eme...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Unknown hero's burial today
National hero, Major-General Godfrey Chanakira, who died at West End Clinic in Harare last Thursday of a heart ailment, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre today.At the time of his deat...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged to complete outstanding projects in honour of Chief Mabhikwa
Lupane West Member of Parliament (MP) Martin Khumalo has challenged the government to complete all the outstanding projects in Matabeleland North in honour of the late Chief Mabhikwa of Jotsholo, Lupa...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi sends roads SOS to govt
NKAYI Rural District Council (RDC) has sent a distress call to the Government over lack of road maintenance machinery, a development that has seen it being shortchanged by contracted companies....Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zinara set to disburse $17bn under ERRP2
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) is this year set to disburse $17 billion under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) with the parastatal having so far allocated over ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
$17bn war chest for 2022 road works
More than 2 000 urban and rural roads stretching over 10 000km will undergo reconstruction under the ongoing Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2) this year.Government has set asid...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to remain unitary State, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State and no amount of machinations from the country's detractors, or those calling for a separate State, will divide the country, President Mnangagwa has said.A...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Devolution funds ‘bankrolling' Zanu P F campaigns
The ruling Zanu-PF party has been accused of diverting devolution funds towards promoting party interests in Masvingo Province as the nation gears towards the March 26 by-elections. Zanu-PF has embark...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 18:15hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Oldest Chief Nyamondo dies aged 102
The Zimbabwe's oldest Chief Nyamondo born Runesu Solomon Gore (102) of Mberengwa has died.The chief attracted the attention of a nearby Chief Ngungumbane's subject Nothiwani Dlodlo last year w...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 14:09hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's borehole drilling scheme begins
The Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme has started as Government seeks to provide clean water to urban areas after successive opposition led councils have failed to ensure potable water for residen...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Unpacking a Prospective Councillor's Political Manifesto: Education
On the 7th of December 2021 I published my Political Manifesto as prospective councillor for Gokwe-Mapfungautsi Constituency Ward 25 Zimbabwe 2023 General Elections.My manifesto was received with mixe...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 22:13hrs | 11 | by Etiwel Mutero
Even under ZANU PF urban local authorities boreholes will be the order of the day in our towns and cities!
It is now undeniable that Zimbabwe has been turned into a rural state - with most urban areas having been completely and cruelly ravaged, pillaged, and laid to waste by subsequent local authorities si...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 15:43hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zinara speaks on $17bn disbursement
Local authorities that are yet to show how they spent their money from the Zimbabwe National Administration (Zinara) last year will not get anything from the $17 billion the road authority is ready to...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zinara to explore new revenue sources
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) is exploring new ways of raising funds to complement traditional revenue sources for road programmes.The authority said the revenue it collec...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
We're not responsible for road rehab, says Zinara
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) yesterday said it was not responsible for the dilapidated state of roads across the country, insisting that its mandate was to collect funds and disburse...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zinara unveils $17bn roads war chest
Another $17 billion will be distributed mid-next month by Zinara to all provinces and local authorities for road maintenance under the next phase of the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP)....Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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