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Magistrate accused of lying
Harare regional magistrate Vongai Guriro Muchuchuti is on Thursday expected to hear submissions by prosecutors following an application by land developer Georgios Katsimberis seeking her recusal from ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes council over US$57m software scam
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now investigating the US$200 million that Harare City Council cannot account for to the Auditor-General and has also launched a specific investigation...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Shambolic accounts haunt city
HARARE City Council has been failing to properly account for its revenues over the past four years due to a manual accounting system prone to human error and manipulation.In 2019, the local au...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 320 cholera cases in a week
ZIMBABWE recorded 320 suspected cases of cholera last week, the highest weekly total since the outbreak began on February 12.In total, health authorities are dealing with 1 188 suspected cases...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga promised swimming pools, but Mbare residents swim in sewage
OVERCROWDING, poor water reticulation, obsolete sewer systems, uncollected refuse and old inhabitable homes is the story of Mbare.It is also the story of Matapi Flats in the same suburb, built...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:14hrs | 84 | by Tatenda Manyinyire
High Court orders attachment of VFEX listed WestPro's land
A High Court judge has ordered the attachment of land belonging to Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) listed West Property Holdings (WestPro) to offset a longstanding debt with a contractor....Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:59hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally cuts off Harare City football club funding
FINANCIALLY hamstrung City of Harare has with immediate effect stopped funding its football team – Harare City – pending an internal audit.This was passed through a council resolution Tues...Published: 10 May 2023 at 19:23hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents petition council over cholera
HARARE residents on Monday petitioned the local authority over the current cholera outbreak.Harare has recorded over 20 cases of cholera in the past few weeks.According to a Health and...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:00hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Council provides water bowsers to cholera hotspots
HARARE City Council's health services director Prosper Chonzi yesterday said the local authority was providing water bowsers to cholera hotspots in the capital.On Tuesday, Chonzi said the capi...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Fresh controversy over Bulawayo city's parking system
BULAWAYO business executives want the city's controversial vehicle parking management system cancelled and renegotiated, saying it is hurting struggling local companies.A Bulawayo resident als...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:02hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Harare goes after litterbugs
HARARE City Council (HCC) says it is intensifying enforcement of its anti-littering by-laws with culprits caught in the act being penalised.The central business district (CBD) has become an ey...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 06:59hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Councillors in massive workshops looting scam
CCC-led councillors are allegedly looting council coffers through the conduit of holding workshops, with each of them having a target of fundraising US$5 000 as a war chest for the upcoming harmonised...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:22hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt trampling on labour laws, says US
GOVERNMENT has failed to enforce labour laws, resulting in workers being subjected to unfair labour practises, a report on Zimbabwe's human rights practices for the year 2022 has revealed.In t...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:53hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Harare City in US$51m ICT scam
The allegations of dubious conduct arise as the IT boss Mr Samson Madzokere with some top managers are already reeling in the eye of a storm amid allegations of spending US$20 000 per trip on numerous...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Biti's accuser fails to answer questions in court
Controversial businesswoman and Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina declined to answer the majority of questions posed to her about Ken Sharpe's company, Augur Investments during court cross-examination...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 10:06hrs | 1193 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Land scam sucks in Harare town clerk
Harare City Council's acting town clerk Phakhamile Mabhena Moyo and Citizens Coalition for Change councillor Happymore Gotora appeared in court yesterday facing criminal abuse of office charges....Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
5 councillors in court over stands corruption
FIVE Harare City councillors, all members of the Finance and Development Committee, have been charged with illegally allocating commercial and industrial stands to themselves, at least seven other cou...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Students4ED petition Govt over city council's corruption
UNIVERSITY students under the banner of the Students for Economic Development (S4ED) want Government to intervene in an alleged illegal demolition executed in Mbare last year following a c...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:51hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Midlands allies exempt from Zanu-PF primaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in his Midlands home province have been exempted from being challenged by other party officials in Zanu-PF primary elections in a development that has stoke...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:35hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parliament built on private land
IN January we published a story saying part of the land on which Zimbabwe's new US$140 million Parliament and the planned US$60 billion ultra-modern Cyber City in Mt Hampden on the outskirts of the ca...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:06hrs | 1899 | by Staff reporter
Vending in Zimbabwean towns with kids declared an offence
DURING the peak hour, human traffic in Central Business Districts (CBDs) across towns and cities naturally swell, as commuters frenziedly make their way to various pick-up points for transport to take...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Motorist demands US$132 fine refund from CCC led council
A HARARE motorist is demanding a US$132 refund from the Harare City Council's subsidiary City Parking after his vehicle was clamped in the central business district on March 8 over parking fee arrears...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
City Parking gives grace period, steep fine remains
CITY Parking of Harare yesterday moved to end the uproar over its clamping penalties with a 60 minute grace period before vehicles were clamped if the driver had not bought enough parking time and a 3...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Huge outcry over CCC led city vehicle clamping fine
While the outcry over Harare City Parking's fines continues to grow and a Government investigation has opened, a motorist is trying to get the High Court to rule that Harare City Council has no legal ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:16hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Motorist files challenge against vehicle impounding by Harare City Council
A local motorist has approached the High Court seeking an order declaring as unlawful, the practice of impounding motor vehicles by Harare Municipal police over alleged violation of city traffic laws....Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 19:57hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Govt stops billing HCC over Pomona waste
GOVERNMENT has reportedly stopped billing the Harare City Council (HCC) over the controversial Pomona waste to energy management deal.Under the deal, council had been ordered to pay at least U...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:26hrs | 595 | 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 | 1568 | by Staff reporter
MPs take Soda Zhemu to task
LEGISLATORS say Energy minister Soda Zhemu is painting a misleading picture of Zimbabwe's energy situation, which they say is worsening despite his numerous assurances.In the final quarter of ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:58hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer pleads for court protection against "antagonising" Ken Sharpe aide
Top lawyer Alec Muchadehama was forced to plead for court protection against controversial businessman Ken Sharpe's aide, Tatiana Aleshina who had turned abusive after he handed her a torrid time duri...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 22:29hrs | 1905 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sharpe chickens out, withdraws $20 million lawsuit
Ken Sharpe's has chickened out of his $20 million claim against a company he accused of causing him huge financial prejudice by erecting a billboard urging people not to buy stands on land under conte...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 22:11hrs | 3470 | by Paul Ndou
Deputy minister testifies in fraud case
FORMER Alouvine Investments Private Limited company director, Rudo Sarudzayi Mapfumo, allegedly defrauded Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr John Mangwiro of over US$100 000 after reselling a...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Harare council to repossess bus termini leased to Zupco
HARARE City Council says it has resolved to repossess all bus termini it was leasing to the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) around the city over lack of maintenance.Mayor Jacob Mafum...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Murder charges for killer dog owners
A COMMUNITY in Southview Park, Harare, is living in mortal fear of vicious dogs belonging to a family that recently moved into the neighbourhood. Some, if not most, properties in the suburb are not ga...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:34hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Harare taps run dry
HARARE City Council has announced the imminent shutdown of water production at its treatment plants due to lack of aluminium sulphate."The city would like to notify you that due to critically ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:40hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Property developer appeals to ConCourt for more time
Prominent property developer George Katsimberis has appealed to the Constitutional Court to be given more time to apply for leave to challenge a High Court ruling on his bid for a permanent stay of pa...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1208 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara, Harare mayor war over road funds escalates
THE war over road rehabilitation fund disbursements between Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and the Zimbabwe National Roads Association (Zinara) yesterday escalated, with the latter releasing a schedule of ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid wreaking havoc in Harare
TYPHOID is wreaking havoc in the capital, Harare, with 19 new suspected cases having been recorded this week.This comes after 63 suspected cases were recently recorded in Glen Norah high-densi...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Vendors4ED, Council clash
Zanu-PF affiliate Vendors 4ED has clashed with Harare City Council (HCC), amid reports that the latter was illegally allocating trading spaces to its members in the city under cover of the ruling part...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:46hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Sharpe plots to bloc witness from testifying against him
Pokugara Properties, owned by controversial businessman Ken Sharpe, which caused the arrest of a State witness testifying against it for malicious damage to property has applied to have the same witne...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 1239 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zinara asks Harare to prove use of road rehab millions
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) has revealed Harare City Council has failed to make use of ZW$1,1 billion allocated to it for reconstruction of its network.In a strong-worded re...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:42hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Harare council, Zinara trade barbs
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume has threatened to take the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to court saying its model for road construction is not working, adding that since 2009, Zinara has n...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:34hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Harare fails to account for Zinara funds
Harare City Council has failed to acquit funds that have been allocated to it by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) resulting in the local authority failing to access new disbursements...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Harare fails to account for Zinara funds
Harare City Council has failed to acquit funds that have been allocated to it by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) resulting in the local authority failing to access new disbursements...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Dembare surrender use of Rufaro to fate
DYNAMOS are keeping their fingers crossed the Harare City Council will ready Rufaro Stadium for use for the upcoming Castle Lager Premiership football season.The Glamour Boys have ordinarily u...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:29hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Charamba mocks Chamisa
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has blasted Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa for promising a ‘new great Zimbabwe' while opposition led councils have failed t...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 5046 | by Staff reporter
Deputy prosecutor general an arrogant and biased pathetic liar - property developer
Property developer George Katsimberis wants the court to order cross-examination of Acting Deputy Prosecutor general Michael Reza in order to expose his deceit, falsehoods and subversion of just...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 18:06hrs | 1565 | by Simbarashe Sithole
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 2311 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 4170 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to reverse July Moyo directives
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has vowed to reverse some government measures, which he said were destroying and suffocating local authorities.Chamisa, who is vying...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:46hrs | 2219 | by Johannes Marisa
Chamisa claims his party has corrected past mistakes
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa claims his party has corrected past mistakes to ensure a clean sweep in this year's elections, but Zanu-PF says the opposition leader is day d...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:20hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
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