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Council nurses trickle to work
Harare Municipal medical staff are trickling to work following engagements between representatives and the municipality, which has seen October salaries paid on Wednesday and commitments for a salary ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:51hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah not coming to Bulawayo
BULAWAYO fans will have to wait a bit longer to witness Jah Prayzah and his Third Generation Band live in action as the musician has cancelled his gig that was slated for this weekend. Jah Pra...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:44hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor tell MPs to reject Mthuli Ncube's budget
The Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni has called upon the Members of Parliament to reject the 2020 budget if it does not spell out how the more than 100 years old Zambezi-Water pr...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 17:49hrs | 4005 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe plunges into health crisis, as nurses in council clinics strike
Zimbabwe's health sector is headed for collapse after nurses from council run clinics embarked on a strike that is expected to spread country wide. On Monday, the nurses did not report for wor...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 10:16hrs | 2340 | by Staff Reporter
City bigwigs blow cash on banned trips
Harare City Council has held two workshops at Kadoma Ranch Motel in the past three weeks, blowing thousands of ratepayers money at the expense of service delivery. The jaunts are in defiance of a Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:44hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Harare City faces collapse
HARARE CITY Council will stop sponsoring their flagship sports team, Harare City Football Club, starting next season.In his State of the City address today, Harare mayor, Councillor Herbert Go...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 17:13hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
A peek into Chamisa's urban nightmare
The opposition party, the MDC, cut its teeth in elections in 2000. Since then, it has been winning almost the same local authority and National Assembly seats, mainly in urban areas. Despite b...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 03:52hrs | 76 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mugabe's nephew dumps Harare water project
LATE Former President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo Mugabe is under fire over failure to complete the Oddis Plant project his company and some Israelites were long contracted to work on by the Harare Ci...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:02hrs | 40 | by newzimbabwe
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areas
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areasNobleman RunyangaThe opposition party, the MDC cut its teeth into elections in 2000. Since then it has been winning almost the same lo...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 11:55hrs | 1024 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Council seeks garnish powers
HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba yesterday appealed to Parliament to make legislative reforms that will give powers to the city council to execute garnishing orders just like the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Harare mulls new tax for businesses
MDC-Alliance-run Harare City Council is mulling a new tax under which all registered businesses in the capital will contribute a certain percentage for capital development. In a tacit admissio...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Chemplex to supply water chemicals to all local authorities
Government has reappointed Chemplex Corporation, the country's largest chemical and fertiliser maker as the sole water chemicals' provider for all local authorities as a measure to promote import subs...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 14:25hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Judge calls for married people database
In a development likely to inspire changes in the proposed Marriages Bill that seeks to have unregistered customary law unions itemised, a High Court judge has called for a countrywide database of mar...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Govt to probe MDC Chamisa nepotism at Town House
GOVERNMENT does not take lightly nepotism reports at Harare City Council and investigations will soon be instituted to deal with the rot, Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Deputy Min...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:25hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC staffs Harare Council jobs with relatives?
Harare City Council has been caught in a nepotism storm after it emerged that councillors in the city could be seconding their relatives for jobs in various departments, leaving a trail of similar nam...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:13hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter
Roadworks scandal hits Harare
Harare City Council (HCC) is reeling from yet another controversy after an internal audit unearthed a major scandal through which some road contractors engaged to rehabilitate 43 selected roads in the...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:01hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Leo Mugabe to be reported to ZACC
Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba said the Capital City will engage the new Zacc to investigate the tender allegedly awarded to former President Robert Mugabe's nephew who was funeral spokesman to built a ne...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 21:33hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Businessman acquitted of rape
RUSAPE businessman Cleopas Mugomba was last week acquitted by regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande on charges of sexually abusing his maid and stealing her mobile phone.Mugomba (44), who is...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 06:03hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Gono in serious fallout
Former first lady Grace Mugabe and ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono reportedly had a massive fallout over the decision to bury the late president Robert Mugabe in Zvimba, it has emerge...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 13:20hrs | 4444 | by Staff reporter
Judge's hubby acquitted of raping maid
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande on Tuesday acquitted High Court judge Justice Sylvia Chirau's husband, Cleopas Mugomba, on charges of sexually abusing his maid and stealing her mobile p...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 06:53hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor speaks on intensifying water crisis
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, has been plunged into a crisis by an acute shortage of potable water after two out of three supply dams ran dry due to drought, while the city council failed to buy water p...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Janet Manyowa arrives ahead of Friends in Christ gospel extravaganza
Award-winning gospel artist, Janet Manyowa has arrived in the United Kingdom ahead of the annual concert hosted by Sharon Manatsa and Friends in Christ (FIC), taking place this Saturday in Bedford....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 11:48hrs | 1114 | by Tidi Kwidini
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 95 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Green dupes Bindura fans
AFRO FUSION musician Carlos Green aka "vakuru vemasmart" of VMV band did not show up for his advertised Bindura show at Club 1160 and decided to partner Andy Muridzo on Friday night at Pagomba Café i...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 06:23hrs | 855 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Harare council misses targets
Harare City leadership has failed to deliver on its targets in their first year in office in terms of providing essential services like water and sanitation, eradicating undesignated dumping sit...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Glen View new battlefield for Chamisa, Mnangagwa
THE two main political parties, Zanu-PF and the MDC, have turned their rivalry to the Glen View South constituency by-election amid allegations of vote-buying, intimidation and financial warfare....Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
Municipalities revenue collection bid dealt blow
A RECENT judgment by Supreme Court judge Justice Charles Hungwe that nullified resolutions and by-laws requiring legal practitioners to apply and pay for trading licences has dealt a blow to revenue c...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:06hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt neglect driving citizens across borders
RURAL communities in southern Zimbabwe are bearing the brunt of government neglect, 39 years after independence forcing them to turn to neighbouring South Africa for greener pastures and general upkee...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:53hrs | 2599 | by Staff reporter
National Environment Cleaning Day gains momentum in Zimbabwe schools
Walking up and about Harare streets and beyond on every first Friday of the month has become a norm to see the young and old being actively involved in the National Clean-Up campaign. The first Friday...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:44hrs | 357 | by Brian Maregedze
Joy as man reunites with family after 44 years
ENOS Samupinya Ndou was on the verge of giving up any hope that he will ever see his Zimbabwean family again after starting a new life in South Africa 44 years ago.Ndou, who was born in Beitbr...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:15hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Forensic audit for MDC led Harare Council
CITY of Harare is set to conduct a forensic audit to probe council operations into land sales, markets operations and employees' skills from 2016 to date, Mayor Hebert Gomba has said.Addressin...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 20:37hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Harare Mayor defends taking over Bulawayo
HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has said there is nothing wrong with City Parking being given a parking management tender by Bulawayo City Council (BCC), as the two local authorities have a long working re...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:33hrs | 4618 | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor speaks on Bulawayo Council fiasco
Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba has opened up on allegations that City Parking a company linked to Harare City Council is angling to takeover parking business in Bulawayo. The controversial matter ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:52hrs | 4380 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We are not afraid of you' MDC told
Human Rights activist Dr Pedzisai Runhanya has told MDC activists that he is not afraid of them and he will not stop criticising them if they follow the same undemocratic actions done by the ruling ZA...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 13:45hrs | 8392 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare demands 30-year-old debt from Zesa
Harare City Council says Zesa has not paid royalties for its properties in the capital for the past 30 years and the local authority is now withholding the power's utility's title deeds until it settl...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Zvinavashe estate in shambles
FIVE beneficiaries of the estate of the late national hero, Vitalis Musungwa Gava Zvinavashe's Trust have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to remove the current Trustees accusing them of fai...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1583 | by Staff reporter
Chaos in Zvinavashe estate
The High Court has lamented the absence of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in the estate of the late former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Vitalis Musungwa Zvinavashe, whose widow...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:01hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Man loses R500k to armed robbers
A BEITBRIDGE man on Sunday reportedly lost more than half a million rand to armed robbers, who shot him seven times before driving away in his car.Muchineripi Hlaringo, a known money-changer a...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:16hrs | 2901 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa son's illegal forex business raided, 4 cops arrested
Four police detectives have been arrested for under-declaring money seized during a raid on an illegal foreign currency trading business owned by the son of a Cabinet minister.Detectives Tafad...Published: 30 May 2019 at 17:28hrs | 9927 | by ZimLive
Court freezes car dealer's bank account
High Court judge Justice Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba has frozen the bank account of car dealer Farai Chiwashira following an application by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) which is seeking answers...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tenderpreneurship delivers sewer water at the tap
Community Water Alliance has served letters to the Chief Executive Officer of Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe, Mayor of Harare His Worship Councilor Hebert Gomba and the Ministry of Local...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Community Water Alliance
Mnangagwa urges Chamisa's MDC council to give Harare a facelift
President Mnangagwa has urged Harare Mayor Councillor Herbert Gomba to ensure that all property owners refurbish their buildings to restore the city's sunshine status. Most buildings in the city have ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dirty, dirty Harare water
The toxicity levels in Lake Chivero have reached alarming levels, twice the stipulated minimum, with Harare City Council spending US$3 million monthly on a cocktail of water treatment chemicals to rem...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:24hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Manhood 'vanishes' after failing to pay a hooker
In a bizarre incident, a 35-year-old Mazowe married man mysteriously "lost" his manhood after failing to pay a hooker RTG$5 last week.Kudzi Muteragombe (35) of Good Hope Farm allegedly had sex...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2618 | by Staff reporter
Council opts for locally-made water chemicals
Harare City Council (HCC) has started carrying out trial runs for locally-made water purification chemicals which are expected to reduce the demand for foreign currency and save the local authority US...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis in Harare exposes MDC inadequacies
There is an old adage that says fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. This maxim rings true to most of our urban voters who are constantly casting their vote to a failed MDC party whic...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 14:37hrs | 1502 | by Prosperity Mzila
Harare starts disconnecting water
KUWADZANA residents woke up to no water meters after Harare City Council (HCC) employees removed them over non-payment of bills.Community Water Alliance (CWA) Ward 44 chairperson Miriam Nyaman...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai donations 'looting' soldiers freed
THREE soldiers that were nabbed after allegedly looting Cyclone Idai donations have each been released on $500 bail.High Court judge Sylvia Chirawu-Mugomba ordered the trio to report thrice a ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 4145 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Soldiers arrested over Cyclone Idai aid
AFTER weeks of frenzied speculation, some members of the military have finally been exposed for allegedly looting goods donated to survivors of the recent Cyclone Idai which left a trail of dest...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 3536 | by Staff reporter
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