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Raw sewage in streets of Harare
Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe's capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country a new dawn.A cholera outbreak h...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3434 | by AFP
Police escalate fight against vendors
POLICE yesterday reinforced their security, with some police details getting onto the streets armed with AK-47 rifles, as the law enforcement agency upped its effort to evict defiant vendors from Hara...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:28hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council to apologise to Econet
The Harare City Council has said it will apologise to Zimbabwe's largest mobile telephone company Econet Wireless after municipal officials attempted to steal humanitarian aid meant to stem Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:37hrs | 3335 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fund cheats named and shamed
Harare City Council has named the four officials it suspended on allegations of inflating the prices of goods that were supposed to be bought to combat the cholera outbreak. The four are Phili...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council bans school feeding programme
Bulawayo City Council has temporarily banned the school feeding programme amid reports that the number of suspected cholera cases in the city has risen to 21.Speaking during a Zimbabwe Medical...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tours Glen View cholera centre
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently touring the two cholera treatment centres in Harare – Glen View 1 Polyclinic and Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital.Speaking in Glen View, P...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:03hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over govt spending
Zimbabweans have expressed outrage over the government's poor planning and unnecessary expenditure at the expense of preventing medieval diseases like cholera, which has so far claimed the lives of at...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Cholera: Harare City Council caught sleeping on the job
The ongoing cholera outbreak started on 1 September in Glen View 3, Harare and has since spread, killing 30 people with 5 463 cases having been reported to date. As usual opposition elements hav...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 4158 | by Elijah Chihota
Cholera fund 'fraud', Harare City Council workers suspended
SOME Harare City Council officers have been suspended from work with immediate effect following allegations of overcharging for goods and services to cash in on a $10 million donation from Econet Grou...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Residents attack MDC Alliance mayor over cholera remarks
THE Zimbabwe Combined Residents and Ratepayers' Association has chided newly-appointed Harare mayor Herbert Gomba for making "inflammatory and reckless statements" after the latter blamed central gove...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Cholera death toll hits 30
THE number of people who have died of cholera has risen from 28 to 30 as Government, Harare City Council, the police and other stakeholders continue to make concerted efforts to curb the spread of the...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Police enforce vending ban
A SMALL group of illegal vendors yesterday engaged in running battles with the police as they refused to leave the streets as part of Government efforts to contain the cholera outbreak, which has so f...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Harare City Council raids vendors
Harare City Council and the national police yesterday launched raids against vendors in the central business district after pleas for the informal traders to leave the streets due to a cholera outbrea...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:57hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Poor urban service delivery leads to disease outbreak
POOR service delivery in towns and cities has been the major cause of diseases such as cholera and typhoid.It is a pity that residents in most urban centres in the country have since the turn ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:51hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Government secures $940m lifeline for Harare water
Government has secured funding commitments worth $940 million from China to overhaul Harare's water and sewer system, which is in a state of disrepair and has been blamed for the current cholera outbr...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1693 | by Staff Reporter
Harare vendors get 24-hr ultimatum to vacate
The National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (Navuz) yesterday started mobilising its members to leave undesignated vending sites in Harare's central business district today in order to contain the cholera ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 2773 | by Staff Reporter
MDC @ 19 Celebrations postponed
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has postponed its 19th Anniversary celebrations that were slated for this Saturday 15 September 2018 due to the cholera outbreak in some parts of Harare. The A...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:05hrs | 2663 | by Cllr Jacob Mafume
Mthuli Ncube sets up emergency crowdfund to fight Cholera
The new Minister of Finance and Economic Development Professor Mthuli Ncube together with his colleagues at Ministry of Health has set up an auditable emergency crowdfund to further efforts to fight c...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 09:09hrs | 2369 | by Ndou Paul
UZ graduation postponed
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has deferred a graduation ceremony that was set for today owing to an outbreak of cholera which has claimed 25 lives and left several people hospitalised mostly in Glen...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 2051 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa distances his MDC Alliance from cholera blame
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, whose party controls Harare City Council, has distanced the main opposition from any blame for the deadly current cholera outbreak saying the Zanu-PF government was responsi...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 3086 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera outbreak declared state of emergency
GOVERNMENT has declared the cholera outbreak in Harare a state of emergency and ordered the closure of a primary school in Glen View as the death toll from the waterborne disease rose to over 20, whil...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillor proposes pay hike
A HARARE City councillor, Jacob Mafume (MDC Alliance), has proposed a pay hike for city employees as a way to retain skilled and experienced staff at a time service delivery is at its lowest.O...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reshuffles MDC top leadership
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has announced a raft of changes to the leadership of the opposition party, including the appointment of Welshman Ncube and Morgen Komichi as vice-presidents in a mov...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2956 | by Staff reporter
20 dead
Government has declared the cholera outbreak in Harare a state of emergency as numbers of people dying or falling sick from the bacterial infection rise. By mid-morning yesterday, 20 people had been c...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Health and Child Care Dep Minister sworn in
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr John Mangwiro, bringing to 15 the number of deputy ministers who are part of the new team of ministers entrust...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Cholera declared emergency
Government has declared the cholera outbreak in Harare a state of emergency due to the rising number of people dying or falling sick from the bacterial infection, which is also fast spreading througho...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 14:51hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa takes over the appointment of Harare City Council committee chairpersons
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has reportedly taken over the appointment of Harare City Council committee chairpersons in a bid to ensure his allies control key positions to effectively drive the ...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2345 | by Staff reporter
Harare's cholera death toll rises to 10
The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Harare has risen to 10, the city's director of health said yesterday, with an appeal for more help to put an end to the epidemic.This comes as Z...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:09hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Harare petitions court over suspended chamber secretary
THE Harare City Council has petitioned the High Court, seeking an order to dismiss an application filed by its chamber secretary Josephine Ncube, who is challenging her suspension from work.Nc...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Majome releases CDF expenditure report
Former Harare West MP Jessie Majome has released the Constituence Development Fund report to upraise the constituency on how the funds were used during her tenure."As I promised, I hereby pres...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1439 | by Stephen Jakes
Councils offer discounts to ratepayers
Zimbabwe's local authorities which are owed over $2 billion are now desperately discounting their ratepayers in a bid to recover some of the money.Since the beginning of the year, most council...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 12:56hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes big on road works
Government will rehabilitate, construct and upgrade at least 2 000km of road in the next two months, The Sunday Mail has established.The massive road works are part of a broader national progr...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue govt, local authorities over caretaker commissioners
Harare High Court judge Justice Edith Mushore will today preside over a challenge filed by Chitungwiza and Harare residents, who have dragged government and respective local authorities to court over ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 07:17hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Residents associations and water rights campaigners challenge govt's appointment of caretaker commissions
HIGH Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore will on Friday 31 August 2018 preside over the hearing and determination of an urgent chamber application filed by some residents associations and water rights c...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 18:15hrs | 570 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare vendors cry foul over high charges
VENDORS in Harare yesterday complained over high fees they are charged by council for operating at the designated points, saying this had forced many to resort to the streets.In a bid to rid t...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 09:01hrs | 3783 | by Staff Reporter
Losing Zanu-PF candidate parcels out CFI land
Listed agro group CFI Holdings Limited (CFI)'s Harare South property has been seized by a Zanu-PF apparatchik who is parcelling out the land illegally at $30 for 300 square metres.CFI Holding ...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 12:10hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
'Moyo's caretaker commissions illegal'
Commissions set up to run local authorities by Local Government minister July Moyo are illegal and should be abolished, constitutional and local government experts have said.This comes after M...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:43hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
Harare in graveyard space headache
The number of Harare residents that are burying their dear departed in cemeteries that are located on the outskirts of the city is increasing as pressure for graveyard space intensifies.With m...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Vendors stalls demolished at night
Vendors at the congested Copacabana termini in Harare arrived early in the morning on Saturday to find their market stalls destroyed with only heaps of rubble left.The demolishment was carried...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 2852 | by Staff reporter
New hotel facility for Harare CBD
Zimbabwe's capital city is set for a major facelift, in view of plans by a yet to be named developer expected to construct a multi-use complex in Harare's central business district (CBD). The ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:11hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa should accept defeat, says MDC-T
THE 2018 harmonised elections were free and fair and MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa should accept defeat, MDC-T vice-president Mr Obert Gutu has said.Disputing elections, Mr Gutu added,...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:37hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Zinara 'prioritising VIP roads in Harare'
The Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) has been prioritising VIP routes in Harare, an official has said.Harare City Council (HCC) environmental committee chairperson Herbert Gomba yest...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 16:38hrs | 1833 | by Staff reporter
Harare, workers declare deadlock
Harare City Council and its workers have declared a deadlock over demands by the employees for a pay rise at a time the local authority is planning to cut salaries.Harare Municipal Workers' Un...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:28hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
3 shortlisted for Harare town clerk post
Harare City Council yesterday approved three names to be submitted to the Local Government Board (LGB) for appointment of a substantive town clerk in a move set to end 30 months of bickering and polit...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:58hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
$400m for roads rehabilitation
GOVERNMENT is working towards raising US$300 million from bonds issued by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for road repairs across the country.Separately, US$100 million has...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:48hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Grave opened, corpse stolen
In a suspected case of juju, an 18-month-old baby's corpse was exhumed within a day of burial at the crowded Granville cemetery (kuMbudzi) in the capital.Stains of blood were also found on a r...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 13:10hrs | 2367 | by Staff reporter
Moyo 'orders' Harare to conclude town clerk job fiasco
LOCAL Government minister, July Moyo has reportedly ordered Harare City Council to urgently conclude its disciplinary cases against top city managers to enable some of them to undergo interviews for t...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | 641 | by Staff rpeorter
Factional fights among Harare Councillors back dates to Kasukuwere era
Factional infighting among Harare City Councillors has been cited as one of the reasons three Councillors, Paula Macharangwanda, Wilton Janjasi and Urayayi Mangwiro were the only ones victimised by fo...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 10:07hrs | 326 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare City misses its deadline
HARARE City Council has missed the deadline it had set for recruitment of a town clerk, with the human resources committee blaming the mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni, for the delay.Council, three w...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 179 | by Staff rpeorter
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