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Harare pumping capacity down to 25%
Ongoing disputes among officials at the Harare City Council are crippling efforts to address the capital's worsening water crisis, with revelations that the city is producing only a quarter of its dai...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:34hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
US$816 000 for chemicals vanishes as Harare runs dry
Harare City Council could have lost US$816,000 in public funds due to alleged misconduct by water treatment chemicals supplier, Nanotech Water Solutions. The company reportedly acquitted only US$252,0...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:28hrs | 3726 | by Staff reporter
Contractor spills the beans on Harare City Council
Nanotech Solutions, a company contracted by Harare City Council (HCC) to install cost-efficient water treatment technology at Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant, has accused councillors and senior o...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:24hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors squander millions in shady water deals
The Harare City Council (HCC) is reportedly wasting US$300,000 per month on water treatment chemicals from third-party suppliers, despite having a US$5.4 million contract with South African company Na...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 14:51hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Water woes: Govt bails out Harare, ignores Bulawayo
The Harare City Council is once again receiving emergency support from the Government to address the ongoing water supply crisis affecting the city. The Government's measures include assisting...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:47hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Harare is a man-made disaster
Residents' associations are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis following the decommissioning of the Prince Edward Water Treatment Plant in Chitungwiza due to critically low water levels. ...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:08hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos, CAPS Utd players continue sit-in
Harare giants Dynamos and CAPS United are experiencing a chaotic player rebellion, with both teams' players refusing to train for the second consecutive day due to unpaid dues. This unrest comes just ...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe fights eviction from Eastlea offices
Millytake Enterprises (Private) Limited, owned by incarcerated businessman Mike Chimombe, has appealed a High Court judgment that ordered their eviction from Eastlea offices in Harare. Chimombe and hi...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 09:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe evicted
Mike Chimombe, already embroiled in legal troubles related to alleged fraud and corruption scandals, faces further setbacks as his company, Millytake Enterprises (Private) Limited, has been evicted fr...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:30hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Safari operator 'hires' CIOs to intimidate workers
Wilderness Safaris, a prominent safari operator, faces accusations of violating the rights of its employees, with claims of employing suspected State security agents to intimidate workers.Oper...Published: 30 May 2024 at 08:44hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Dembare outcast resurfaces at Caps United
Dynamos outcast Tendai Matindife has resurfaced at Caps United where he is training with hopes of earning himself a contract.The winger was an integral part of the Dynamos team at the start of...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents brace for prolonged water crisis
Harare residents should expect the ongoing water shortages to persist as the council continues to struggle to meet the demand and most suburbs receiving water for a few days every week, sparking conce...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt plunges cities into cholera zones
ZIMBABWE'S approach in addressing a countrywide water crisis has plunged most cities into cholera red zones as infections rise.Health and Child Care minister Douglas Mombeshora this week discussed...Published: 28 Oct 2023 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa engages ZRA for more water
ZESA Holdings is engaging the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) for more water allocation to ramp up electricity generation.Spokesperson George Manyaya told NewsDay that the power utility has mana...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Construction of 12 large dams accelerated in Zimbabwe
Construction of 12 large dams is being accelerated to put at least 350 000 hectares under irrigation by 2025 as the need to boost crop production grows.The rolling out of dam construction coun...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Power cuts worsen Harare water woes at treatment works stall
The current power outages being experienced in the country have worsened Harare's perennial water supply woes amid reports the crippling energy crisis has affected water treatment works at the iconic ...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare diarrhoea outbreak rages
Harare City Council is producing about a quarter of the residents' daily potable water requirements, with the authorities last week sanctioning a rationing regime amid a diarrhoea outbreak in the capi...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa blasts July Moyo for Harare's worsening water problems
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has teared into Minister of Local Government, July Moyo for plunging Harare into debilitating water shortages.Most areas in the capital experienced w...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents go 5 days without water
Heroes' Day will be celebrated in Zimbabwe on Monday — a time to celebrate the liberation war heroes and heroines of the country. But for more than one-million people in the capital, Harare, who hav...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare runs out of water chemicals
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has run out of water treatment chemicals, forcing the local authority to shut down the Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant.In a notice to residents, HCC said the...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is definitely open for looting!
For someone who has been around for close to half a century, and four decades of these under the governance (or rather, misgovernance) of the ZANU PF regime, I never for once believed the yarn of “r...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
July Moyo linked to inflated Belarus fire tenders scandal
LOCAL government minister July Moyo was this Monday the subject of another corruption allegation storm over the procurement of fire-fighting vehicles from Belarus.Moyo is reportedly under inve...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa urges Mnangagwa to suspend July Moyo
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) urging the immediate suspension of local government minister July Moyo to ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after July Moyo?
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo is subject of a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigation over his role in the procurement of US$9,3 million water pumps without going to tender, a y...Published: 27 May 2022 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo reported to ZACC over US$9m tender scam
INDEPENDENT Norton lawmaker Temba Mliswa has formally reported Local Government Public Works and National Housing minister July Moyo to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) over a corrupt US...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo sucked into US$10 million tender scam allegations
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Minister of Local Government July Moyo of approving an overly priced US$10 million budget for the rehabilitation of Morton Jeffrey and Warren Contr...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 11:28hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dry weekend for Harare
Residents in Harare should brace for dry taps this coming weekend as the local authority said it will be doing routine maintenance and also connect a line to Hopley suburbs.In a statement toda...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 15:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Devolution funds doubled in 2022 Budget
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last week doubled the financial allocation towards the devolution programme as the Government moves with renewed speed and vigour to fa...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance accepts failure, welcomes Govt support
President Mnangagwa's administration has been thanked by the opposition-controlled Harare City Council for assisting in infrastructural development, from renovation of the critical health facilities t...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Dry weekend for Harare
HARARE City Council yesterday warned residents that it will cut off water supplies today and tomorrow to carry out repairs at the city's major water treatment plant Morton Jaffray Waterworks.A...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council unleashes debt collectors
HARARE City Council has unleashed debt collectors on bad debtors owing in excess of $7,2 billion in unpaid rates.The city has been dogged by poor service delivery at a time when government dep...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off Harare council over $1 billion debt
Municipal Reporter More than three million people in Harare Metropolitan province spent two days with dry taps as Zesa Holdings switched off power to Harare's major supplying water treatment, Morton J...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 14:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shall rise again
EMMERSON Mnangagwa, in his message during Zimbabwe's 38th Independence celebrations, months after the coup that removed long-serving leader Robert Mugabe and a few months before his election as ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Caps United eye new Nyoni deal
HARARE football giants Caps United are battling to tie down pacey Chapungu winger Ian Nyoni to a new loan deal after the initial arrangement ran out last year.The Green Machine signed Nyoni on...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo named in US$9m tender storm
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo is entangled in a scandal in which a company linked to a businessman at the centre of the Chilonga row was allegedly awarded a US$9,3 million contract to supply wat...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccines inject fear into West as Zimbabwe rejoices
The coming in of Covid-19 has highly exposed global vulnerability. The pandemic has left the whole world puzzled, without any amenable solution to the devastating effects. But the vaccination ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Dylan Chiwawa
Death celebration exposes MDC-Alliance's shallowness
The third week of this month was perhaps Zimbabwe's darkest as the nation lost four national heroes, who included three Government ministers and 70 Zimbabweans dying in one day due to the Covid-19 pan...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF bigwigs come face-to-face with Zimbabwe's crippled healthcare system
ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19.The 61-year-old, who rose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 a ruthless juggernaut, says Chiwenga
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday described Covid-19 as a ruthless juggernaut, which kills everyone despite societal status as Zimbabwe buried three national heroes at the Heroes Acre....Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says we will conquer Covid-19
ZIMBABWE is in the process of acquiring Covid-19 vaccines to fight the global pandemic which has left a trail of destruction across the country but can be conquered through unity, Acting President Chi...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister says, 'this is war' as coronavirus runs amok
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe's raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war — amid the country's soaring deaths and infections.Speaki...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi consoles nation
VICE President Kembo Mohadi yesterday sent condolence messages to families of five senior ZANU PF and Government officials who passed away last week.In a statement, VP Mohadi said Covid-19 con...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sunshine City goes dry
HARARE City Council (HCC) has announced an emergency shutdown of Warren control waterworks treatment plants tomorrow and on Tuesday, a move which will result in Harare residents going without water fo...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
About 600 die while Mnangagwa holidays
Just as Covid-19 was bouncing back at the beginning of the new year with ferocity after a relatively mild and contained first wave in Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa was going on leave.He left co-Vice-Pre...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga airlifted to China? - Highly unlikely
There are unconfirmed reports that Zimbabwe Vice President Rtd Gen Chiwenga has been airlifted to China this evening as his condition deteriorated.This was revealed by the usually reliable Chi...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Chiwenga to rest
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week ordered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to take a rest after the former army general appeared overwhelmed due to overworking and losing relatives to COVID-19...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Zimbabweans to maintain coronavirus discipline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with Zimbabweans to maintain their coronavirus discipline, while also encouraging the public not to lose hope as the country battles a deadlier second wa...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in low spirits as COVID-19 ravages allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in "low spirits" as he buried two national heroes while mourning key ally, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, all in the absence of his two vice-presidents...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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