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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: 26 mins ago | 57 | 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 | 1602 | by Staff reporter
Madinda issues rallying cry
HIGHLANDERS coach Madinda Ndlovu has demanded that his players win the Chibuku Super Cup and fight for a top four finish in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League to prove that the club's rebuilding p...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | 247 | 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 | 3263 | 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 | 1124 | 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 | 249 | 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 | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Madinda is a winner
HIGHLANDERS have described their coach Madinda Ndlovu as a fighter and a winner in a show of support for the gaffer who is on a mission to lay the foundation on which to build a strong side. T...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Mutasa says, 'I'll never quit Dembare'
Under-fire Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa insists he will fight until the end and will not throw in the towel despite the Glamour Boys' continued poor form.DeMbare lost 1-0 to Harare City on Sunda...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:35hrs | 651 | by Staf 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 | 4148 | 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 | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Fading giants seek solace in Chibuku
FADING giants Highlanders, Caps United and Dynamos have been presented with an opportunity to salvage something from a disastrous season when they shift focus to the country's premier knockout tournam...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Dembare's Mutasa safe, for now
DYNAMOS have said firing under fire coach Lloyd Mutasa is not the solution to the challenges the Glamour Boys are currently facing. Club president Solomon Sanyamandwe told reporters they will focus on...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 306 | 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
Dembare woes mount, relegation a real possibility
Harare City 1 - 0 DynamosIT just keeps getting increasingly desperate with each passing game for beleaguered Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa and his bunch of club misfits.The Harare giants were...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 562 | 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
Dembare lose to Harare City
Harare City edged out fading giants Dynamos 1-0 in a derby game played in front of a paltry crowd at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday afternoon.The Glamour Boys put on a lifeless performance in the fi...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 17:38hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
Dembare boss reads riot act
Beleaguered Harare football giants Dynamos chairman Isaiah Mupfurutsa has described the club's season as embarrassing as the team languishes a mere three points above the relegation zone, just eight m...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:12hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Street vendors vow to resist evictions
STREET vendors and market stall holders in Harare's CBD have vowed to return to their vending spots even after the state unleashed regular and municipal police Saturday to drive them off the streets f...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 811 | 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 | 396 | 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 | 102 | by Staff reporter
Dembare chaos
DYNAMOS Football Club on Friday held a crisis meeting in the presence of Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa, as part of efforts to stem growing tensions between executive. DeMbare board chair Bernard Mar...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | 582 | 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 | 1692 | 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 | 2770 | 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 | 2661 | 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 | 2049 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera death toll rallies
THE death toll due to the cholera outbreak that has hit Harare and other parts of the country has increased to 25, with more than 3 700 people hospitalised as government availed a paltry $1 million to...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 1956 | 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
Bosso brought back to earth
Mutare City 1 - 0 HighlandersMutare City Rovers stunned Highlanders in a match played at Vengere Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.Veteran striker Evans Chikwaikwai scored the all-important g...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 19:25hrs | 1967 | 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 | 2955 | 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 | 505 | 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 | 1073 | 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 | 1557 | 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 | 2344 | 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 | 1438 | by Stephen Jakes
Post-poll violence commission criticism baseless
Following the unfortunate incident in which six people died in the post-election violence of August 1, 2018, which was instigated by the MDC-Alliance as it staged anti-Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Z...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 181 | by Nobleman Runyanga
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 | 549 | 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 | 709 | 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
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | 3873 | by Nomazulu Thata
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
Boss, DeMbare clash in presidential inauguration special
HARARE giants Dynamos and Caps United would have to fight another day in their Castle Lager Premiership clash with the famed derby being shelved yesterday to pave way for the DeMbare against Bosso sho...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 08:35hrs | 1846 | by Staff Reporter
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