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Residents petition Parly over devolution funds abuse
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has petitioned Parliament to protest how the Local Government ministry is dictating how devolution funds should be utilised by local authorities....Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's US$500m Zim Cyber City 'murky' investor exposed
MULK International, the United Arab Emirates-based company roped in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to build a US$500 million Zim Cyber City in Harare, secretly bought Nigeria's National Theatre for U...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:46hrs | 2721 | by Staff reporter
Mayor, councillors fume over US$20 monthly allowance
HARARE councillors are seething with anger, describing Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) as inconsiderate and heartless in failing to review the paltry monthly allowances given to city fa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Harare cancels Pomona waste deal
The Harare City Council has resolved to cancel the Pomona waste management deal that was imposed on the local authority by the Local Government ministry.Council had resolved to suspend the 30-...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Govt must liberalise airwaves for development
A FREE Press is essential in holding those in power accountable.The Press is a tool that can be used in connecting and building nations.It is the Press which exposed Willowgate, Salary...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:36hrs | 92 | by Muzokomba villager
Zacc probes abuse of devolution funds
DEVOLUTION funds are open to abuse and plunder by unscrupulous institutions and individuals who can easily turn them into feeding troughs at the expense of communities, NewsDay has established....Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hits back
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused Harare's opposition councillors of being corrupt, at a time his own minister, July Moyo, is being investigated for allegedly forcing council into shadowy deals...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 19:40hrs | 21398 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, July Moyo accused of bunking Parliament
MEMBERS of Parliament (MP) have expressed outrage at the repeated failure to attend House of Assembly business by some cabinet ministers and accused the Executive branch of government of disrespecting...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:29hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must stop meddling in councils
IF it is, indeed, true that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has woken up to its folly of meddling in local authorities affairs as far as the problematic Pomona Waste to Energy deal betwe...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mining surpasses US$5 billion
Zimbabwe's mining sector is registering unprecedented growth, for the first time in history, with earnings jumping to US$5,2 billion in 2021 from about US$2,9 billion in 2017, as positive gains contin...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt steps in to honour Pomona obligations
The Pomona dumpsite project has taken a new twist, with the Government, which is the guarantor, now set to honour its obligations as outlined in the contract between Harare City Council and Geogenix B...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt in Pomona deal climbdown
GOVERNMENT was yesterday forced to make a U-turn on the Pomona waste management deal after the Harare City Council dug in and refused to pay for dumping waste at Pomona, now managed by the Netherlands...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC in Pomona deal climbdown?
THE opposition CCC-led Harare City Council yesterday made a volte-face on the €304 million Pomona Waste to Energy deal after weeks of politicking trying to reverse an agreement they had earlier sanc...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:09hrs | 2919 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo must stop acting like a debt collector MPs
LEGISLATORS have slammed Local Government minister July Moyo for strangely behaving like a debt collector on behalf of Netherlands-based company Geogenix BV in the controversial US$400 million Pomona ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:37hrs | 2120 | by Staff reporter
'Pomona deal millions can build a new city'
DESPITE threats from Local Government and Public Workers minister July Moyo for Harare to pay a US$1 million debt to Geogenix BV, a Netherlands-based company, under the controversial US$400 million Po...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:35hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
There's no one better placed to educate our children over ED regime abysmal failures than parents!
The opportunity to help our children with their learning, especially in light of the more demanding CALA (continuous assessment learning activity) curriculum - which requires much research and analyti...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:13hrs | 419 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
POMONA DEAL: Zimbabwe to lose US$600m through illicit cash flows- Mwonzora
The leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Senator Douglas Togarasei Mwonzora has said the Pomona-Geoginix deal in it's current structure is not reasonable, justifiable and unsu...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 20:21hrs | 3834 | by George Swarei
Mnangagwa ally serves Harare council with a default notice on $750,000 fee
HARARE city council has been served with a default notice after failing to pay some US$780,890 to Netherlands-registered company Geogenix BV in the controversial Pomona waste-to-energy deal.Un...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:06hrs | 2866 | by Staff reporter
Mafume sticks to his guns on Pomona
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday said the Harare City Council (HCC) had no capacity to pay in United States dollars the council committee set up to investigate the Pomona waste management deal....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:47hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors in bribe storm over Pomona
A group of CCC councillors is allegedly set to pocket US$12 000 in fees from Harare City Council for "investigating" the Pomona waste management deal, now a done deal with Government backing.T...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:07hrs | 554 | 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 | 3024 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is July Moyo new face of corruption?
THE government has willfully violated the country's constitution by abusing devolution funds without the required legislation amid fears that the abuse of millions of dollars meant for other services ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:10hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs deplore top govt officials
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under fire from senior Zanu-PF officials, including those stationed at party headquarters, who have raised concern over the failure by ruling party officials deployed i...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:06hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Pomona project above board, claims Nguwaya
GEOGENIX BV says it will forge ahead with the controversial Pomona waste management project despite the Harare City Council (HCC) suspending it through a council resolution last month.Speaking...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-linked firm bags US$780,000 from Pomona dumpsite bill?
THE ministry of local government has written to the Harare city council ordering the local authority to pay up the ballooning Pomona dumpsite bill, which is now close to a million United States dollar...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council appoints committee to probe Pomona deal
HARARE City Council (HCC) has appointed a special investigation committee to probe the controversial Pomona waste management deal between the Netherlands-based company Geogenix BV fronted by businessm...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:42hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa-run councils will 'reject' July Moyo's fire trucks
The Citizens Coalition for Change which is the majority party in most urban councils says it is prepared to go to court to stop local government minister July Moyo forcing local authorities to buy fir...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 4927 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes huge strides taken towards ending power cuts
IN what would be a major boost to the country's industrialisation and modernisation journey, Hwange Thermal Power Station Units 7 and 8 are almost complete with 88,29 percent of work having been done ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand answers over Pomona saga
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda last week ejected Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs Chalton Hwende and Tendai Biti from the House after they demanded answers on the controversial ...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:18hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs back Zanu-PF's Jacob Mudenda
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) and MDC T legislators have leapt to the defence of beleaguered Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda after after he came under attack members of his own p...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:35hrs | 7412 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Hwende kicked out
SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda Thursday chucked out Harare East legislator Tendai Biti and his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) colleague Charlton Hwende after unsuccessfully trying to bar the...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:07hrs | 8228 | by Staff reporter
Biti, CCC legislators grill Minister over Pomona rot
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators grilled Zanu-PF cabinet Minister Amon Murwira in Parliament Wednesday over government interference in the running of local authorities, citing Harare's ...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
The price of bread to humble Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation should should always play a track from Simon 'Chopper' Chimbetu's song Survival which is very informative and educative.This is a well choreographed track...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 11:56hrs | 1964 | by Leonard Koni
Hararians hail Pomona deal suspension
HARARE residents and property rights advocates have thrown their weight behind the Jacob Mafume-led council decision to suspend the controversial Pomona waste management deal.The project has c...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt too snoopy'
PARLIAMENT has slammed government's excessive interference in the operations of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) and local authorities across the country.In a report on the state of affa...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:38hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Isn't continued belief and celebration of ZANU PF regime promises akin to madness!
As I am penning this piece, our suburb of Redcliff has not had any electricity for approximately the past twelve hours – having been thrown into eerie darkness in the wee hours of the morning, repor...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 12:16hrs | 618 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Charamba threatens Harare mayor over Pomona deal
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has threatened Harare mayor Jacob Mafume with arrest for opposing Cabinet's decision to endorse the US$240 million Pomona waste management deal for the city....Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 6187 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's woes could worsen
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's woes could worsen if outspoken legislator Temba Mliswa's claims local government minister, July Moyo, is leading a third faction of ruling Zanu-PF prove to be true....Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:11hrs | 3374 | by Staff reporter
Harare being run by two mayors
THE High Court may have ruled Local Government minister July Moyo offside on his decision to suspend Harare mayor Jacob Mafume, but the circus at Town House is far from over as government continues to...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:59hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'ignores' High Court ruling
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has "ignored" a High Court ruling which lifted the suspension of Harare mayor Jacob Mafume, recognising councillor Stewart Mutizwa as the acting mayor.It emerged t...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:56hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
'July Moyo plots to topple Mnangagwa' Temba Mliswa
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Minister of Local Government July Moyo fpor plotting to ursup powers from Prersident Emmerson Mnamgagwa. In an explosive Twitte...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 10:30hrs | 8064 | by Mandla Ndlovu
July Moyo in $3.5 million scandal
Local government minister July Moyo forced the Victoria Falls municipality to scrap a tender for the supply of water pumps in favour of his handpicked supplier, it was reported on Friday.Moyo'...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:15hrs | 2725 | by Staff reporter
'Pomona waste management project irreversible' July Moyo declares
The Pomona waste management project is irreversible and is set to create hundreds of jobs, generate power and assist in the refuse management of the capital, a cabinet minister has said.In a s...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 10:15hrs | 1560 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe ready for monkeypox
GOVERNMENT says it is prepared to deal with monkeypox in the event that the virus, which has already affected 20 countries, is detected in Zimbabwe.The World Health Organisation (WHO) describe...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Harare suspends Pomona deal
A TENSE Harare City Council (HCC) special council meeting yesterday resolved to suspend the controversial Pomoma waste management deal despite spirited resistance from MDC Alliance councillors....Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents petition City Council to cancel the Pomona waste deal
Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has petitioned Harare City Council (HCC) to terminate the dubious Pomona Waste to Energy Deal.The controversial deal between Georgenix company and ...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 11:40hrs | 2083 | by CHRA
Harare will not pay even a cent on Pomona deal, Mafume vows
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume (pictured) says the city council will not pay a cent to Geogenix BV, a company fronted in Zimbabwe by businessman Delish Nguwaya, describing the agreement signed by the local...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:26hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Pomona model to be replicated in other cities
THE Pomona dumpsite waste to energy plant model in Harare should be replicated in other cities as it will bring a lot of value to Zimbabwe especially in terms of good health as cities will be cleaner ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
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