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Disaster looms as Harare runs out of water chemicals
Harare is in a serious water crisis further exposing the vulnerable residents to the lethal COVID 19 virus. The City has attributed poor water supply to shortage of water treatment chemicals."...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 21:17hrs | 1993 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Embassies caught in stands storm
WESTERN embassies (names supplied) were favoured in the illegal parcelling of residential stands by the MDC Alliance-led council in Harare as the opposition party used its control of the capital city ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus hits Harare City Council..offices shut down
I extend my warmest greetings to you all the residents and visitors to Harare and would like to take this opportunity to reinforce the message against the fight against Covid-19.Harare City Co...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 18:57hrs | 3425 | by Deputy Mayor Enock Mupamawonde
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy Mnangagwa
INFORMAl traders, who are currently unable to ply their trade on the capital's pavements, have invaded open spaces around industrial areas, mainly in Graniteside, posing a COVID-19 health hazard as th...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3916 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Covid-19 hits Zimbabwe prisons
Two positive Covid-19 cases have been recorded at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, adding to unofficial reports of a coronavirus death at the same place and a third case at the correctional services...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
Police boss, prosecutor arrested over stands scam
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) has arrested a police boss and a regional prosecutor implicated in the Harare City Council (HCC)'s Kuwadzana stands scam involving council employees.Police ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests 4 police officers; magistrate over massive Harare land scam
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) three police officers, a magistrate and a prosecutor over a major City of Harare tender scam, an online publication Zimmorning Post has reported. Acc...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:51hrs | 6868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police hunt for 6 Harare council employees
DETECTIVES from the Commercial Crimes Division have launched a manhunt for six Harare City Council employees who are at large over the US$1 million Kuwadzana stands scam involving director of human re...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 3869 | by Staff reporter
Recall of MDC-A Councillors
The MDC Alliance condemns the recall of 4 Harare City Councilors by Minister July Moyo of Zanu PF on the instruction of the MDC-T.This ...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 11:33hrs | 2444 | by Sesel Zvidzai
Khupe, Chamisa lock horns over chief whips
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 5249 | by Staff reporter
Harare reverses parking fees hike
With most motorists boycotting street parking in Harare city centre yesterday morning and shopkeepers counting severe losses, Harare City Council reversed the US$1 an hour new parking charges and reve...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Khupe axes 4 Harare councillors
THE ongoing expulsion of MDC-Alliance officials who are refusing to toe the MDC-T line has extended to municipalities, with the axe yesterday falling on four Harare councillors. This follows t...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
MDC fights shift to Zec
NELSON Chamisa's MDC Alliance has vowed to block Thokozani Khupe and her party from replacing proportional representation (PR) legislators and senators recalled by the MDC-T from Parliament over the p...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial kicks off
THE trial of former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira has kicked off at the Harare Magistrates court this Wednesday with both Mupfumira and her then Permanent Secretary, Ngoni Masoka pleading not guil...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 3077 | by Staff reporter
City health workers reject salary offer
Harare City Council nurses have rejected a $4 498,18 salary offer presented by the local authority, arguing that the proposed figures were below the poverty datum line, and have issued a 14-day ultima...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Debt cripples Harare
Harare City Council operations have been crippled by debtors that owe it more than $1. 4 billion with residents being the major debtors followed by business and Government, respectively. Accor...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Council staffer commits suicide
A HARARE City Council employee based at Remembrance Drive offices in Mbare allegedly committed suicide recently under unclear circumstances amid claims that a suicide note has gone missing. Ms...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Harare repossess sports clubs
THE Harare City Council has resolved to terminate all leases with their sports clubs, council principal communications officer Innocent Ruwende has said.In an interview with the Daily News, Ru...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1782 | by Staff reporter
HIV patients fail to access ARVs
PEOPLE living with HIV and AIDS are having difficulties in accessing second line drugs from public institutions and are being forced to buy them from pharmacies at US$25 for one-month's supply. ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:36hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF axe falls on Gomwe
ZANU-PF has intensified its purge on party malcontents with Harare district co-ordinating committee chairperson Godwin Gomwe recently suspended for accusing some party provincial chairpersons of faili...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2832 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls reviewing cash grants
For Sharai Chivasa, a middle-aged mother of four from Harare's high-density suburb of Glen View 3, surviving the current pricing madness is equally as important as enduring the virulent coronavirus....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:26hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
'Khami Dam sewage water unfit for Bulawayo consumption'
DESCENDANT of the Ndebele monarch, King Lobengula, Prince Peter Zwide Khumalo yesterday slammed plans by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to pump the heavily-polluted Khami Dam water into households to all...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to rename US embassy road after George Floyd?
Some Zimbabweans have approached Harare City Council to rename Flame Lily Way along the American Embassy after George Floyd as a way of paying tribute to the black American who was gruesomely murdered...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2810 | by Staff reporter
The Republic of Matabeleland (ROM) beckons
With Ambazonia's final breakthrough in their quest for self-determination, it has become abundantly clear that after experiencing a series of tragedies under Zimbabwe's colonial rule Matabele people c...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2790 | by George Mkhwanazi
Council freezes stands allocation
Desperate home seekers in Harare will have to wait a bit longer to get stands from council after the local authority temporarily froze new stand allocations and suspended operations of the allocation ...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bucks the trend as more patients recover from Covid-19
Almost half of Zimbabwe's confirmed Covid-19 patients have now fully recovered with more shrugging off the last of their infection almost every day, but medical experts warn that this is no reason to ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:09hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Justice Wadyajena's car impounded by police
Information coming from Harare indicate that a vehicle belonging to a compony owned by Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been impounded after the driver was found condu...Published: 25 May 2020 at 16:26hrs | 9648 | by Mandla Ndlovu
800 kombis impounded
HARARE City Council has impounded more than 800 commuter omnibuses in the past two weeks for flouting several by-laws since opening the Coventry Road holding bay. The commuter omnibuses are be...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Stop complaining and get involved!
IT would be remiss to not ac-knowledge the outpouring of responses to last week's article entitled What are Zimbabweans known for. It touched a raw nerve with many people, especially those who deliber...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1051 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Manual respirators for rural communities
Local firm FAW Zimbabwe intends to acquire as many mobile respiratory units as possible to help some rural communities fight Covid-19.Last week, the company donated a 75-horsepower tractor equ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:58hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Harare seeks $180m Mnangagwa govt bailout
HARARE City Council has approached Finance minister Mthuli Ncube seeking a $180 million rescue package or the local authority will collapse under the strain of coronavirus-induced lockdown. Ma...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:31hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's councillors lack capacity to run Harare,' says ex-Mayor
Former Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni, who survived numerous vote of no confidences during his tenure for questioning the calibre of councillors from his party, MDC, has again taken a swipe at the cu...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 00:15hrs | 2233 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths 'threaten' council cop
Zanu-PF youths who allegedly threatened to attack municipal cops who were demolishing illegal structures around Machipisa, Harare, have appeared in court.Golden Mawesera, 31, Moses Handiseni, ...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 09:51hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons brace for killer virus
INMATES at correctional facilities around the country fear contracting Covid-19 due to overcrowding, but Government has assured them measures have been put in place to protect them.Chikurubi M...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:04hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF denying MDC elected councillors to do their mandate: Manyenyeni
Former MDC Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has revealed that Zanu PF government has for the past years been blocking the opposition elected councillors in the capital city to exercise their mandate of...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 620 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare's chickens coming home to roost
FOR the umpteenth time, Harare City Council is trying to restore order in the city. It is taking ad-vantage of the COVID-19 crisis and the void created by the lockdown to destroy illegal structures. ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 12099 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Social distancing a mere formality for Mbare flats
ZIMBABWE does not have time.The government has to do many things in the shortest possible time - before the effects of the rampaging Covid-19 epidemic become insurmountable.From setting up...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
MDC led council demolishes televangelist Freddy's church
HARARE City Council yesterday demolished prominent local televangelist Tapiwa Freddy's Goodness and Mercy Ministries church building in Glen View as part of the ongoing demolition of all illegal struc...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Harare council demolishes Prophet T Freddy's church
Harare City Council officialls have demolished a church structure which was being used by Prophet Tapiwa led Goodness and Mercy Ministries. The demolition which was done on Wednesday comes at ...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 22:33hrs | 6411 | by Mandla Ndlovu
City Parking resumes clamping
Harare City Council's privately owned company, City Parking has today resumed services of collecting parking fees for all cars parked at designated bays in the central business district (CBD)....Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 1050 | by Staff reporter
Harare city distances self from vendors stalls demolition
Harare City Council has distanced itself from the demolition of informal traders stalls at Mbare in Harare amid concerns that the actions has destroyed the source of livelihood of the unemployed citiz...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1292 | by Stephen Jakes
Free COVID-19 clinic opens in Harare
HARARE medical doctor Vivek Solanki and his team of medical professionals have set up a COVID-19 clinic in Milton Park, Harare, which will offer free treatment to the public.According to Solan...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa distances MDC from Harare market stall demolitions
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has distanced his party from the condemned demolition of market stalls by the Harare municipal police in the city's Mbare suburb on Sunday.The Harare City Co...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:47hrs | 5266 | by newzimbabwe
VISET condemns Harare City Council's action of demolishing informal traders stalls
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) have condemned the action of the City of Harare of destroying the informal traders stall...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:46hrs | 567 | by Stephen Jakes
Municipal cops in bribery storm
Some Harare municipal police officers have been fingered in corruption, including demanding kickbacks from people defying lockdown regulations. They allegedly demand hard cash or goods, mostly...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 07:59hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led council destroys illegal vending cabins, stalls
Harare City Council teams over the weekend demolished vendors' illegal cabins and stalls in Mbare and Highfield, but vendors complained that the destruction was done before the promised new market are...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
To extend or not to extend lockdown is the question
Government will determine the next course of action ahead of tomorrow's expiry of the 21-day lockdown period and the nation anxiously awaits the pronouncement of new ordinances to guide the fight agai...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Motorists evade checkpoints
Motorists are evading police checkpoints and using alternative routes into Harare's central business district (CBD) where vehicular traffic has significantly increased over the past few days despite t...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:14hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
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