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Harare town clerk operating a parallel revenue collection unit
The City of Harare (CoH) Town Clerk's office is facing scrutiny following revelations that it oversees a parallel revenue collection unit responsible for funds from the municipality's special business...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:44hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has reclaimed Harare's 'Sunshine City' status, said mayor Mafume. Dumb and stupid singing for his supper
"Usa kangamwa chezuro nehope!" so goes the Shona adage, warning of the dangers of a selective memory. Zimbabweans have a very selective memory, they see only what they want to see and ignore the rest....Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 19:06hrs | 1339 | by Wilbert Mukori
Jacob Mafume hails Mnangagwa's Second Republic
Harare Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume has commended President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration for spearheading transformative world-class projects in the capital, which are helping the city r...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 06:55hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Cowards must stop quacking, come out of the closet and fight like man! - VAAZ
While known state functionaries and regime enablers have been waging a protracted onslaught on the persona of Advocate Nelson Chamisa, we the advocates of change have unmasked the grand plot by regime...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 19:24hrs | 1116 | by Mandava Blessing - Veterans Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ) National Spokespers on
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwean Filmmakers for Durban FilmMart Climate Focus
Durban, South Africa: In a major film industry collaborative effort Climate Story Lab South Africa, Doc Society - Climate Story Unit, STEPS, and the Global Impact Producers Alliance (GIPA) presents th...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 13:06hrs | 52 | by Agencies
Harare garbage stench worsens
The piles of uncollected garbage in Harare city centre continue growing as more vendors sell vegetables and shops are operated without even a single bin.A concerned resident Mrs Patience Nyamu...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt is the main trigger of erosion of Zimbabwe economy
The world is wondering and cannot fathom why Zimbabwe - a country richly endowed with natural resources which include renewables such as land, forest, water, wildlife and sunshine, and non-renewables ...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:54hrs | 10 | by Maud Bvumbe
Zimbabwean leads 'world's youngest State'
A DECLARATION of a new State thousands of kilometres from Zimbabwe's outlying rural area of Hurungwe into the Pacific Ocean may sound fictitious and strange.But, alas, reveals the existence of...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 09:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Council gives businesses bins ultimatum
Businesses in Harare are under a 14-day ultimatum to place bins outside their premises to enhance cleanliness within the city. Hosiah Chisango, the Town Clerk, warned that non-compliant businesses wou...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bussed Zanu-PF supporters excites Mnangagwa
President Emerson Mnangagwa praised Mashonaland East province on Saturday for mobilising the largest gathering, so far, of ruling Zanu-PF supporters for his presidential election rally at Mutawatawa i...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 18:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for historic Mayweather visit
DURING a visit to Nigeria on May 9, 2022, American boxing icon Floyd "Money" Mayweather announced his grand plan to promote the sport in Africa.It was a historic trip, as the retired boxer rar...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bid to reverse 2007 Harare land deal flops
A group seeking to reverse a 2007 land deal between Harare City Council and Augur Investments has, for the second time, failed to get permission to appeal against a High Court ruling dismissing it for...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
School deserted as parents withdrew their children
Dear Minister of EducationWe, parents of pupils attending Murowa School in Zvishavane district write I form you that with immediate effect we have withdrawn our pupils from the school until th...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:44hrs | 4 | by Concerned Parents
Biti's accuser fails to answer questions in court
Controversial businesswoman and Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina declined to answer the majority of questions posed to her about Ken Sharpe's company, Augur Investments during court cross-examination...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 10:06hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe dying slowly
It was a memorable journey back to Zimbabwe five years after I left the country in January 2018 just three months after the November 2017 coup.My friend and I arrived at the Musina border post...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:46hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Biti verbal assault trial resumes
THE trial of opposition legislator Tendai Biti, who is accused of verbally assaulting a local businesswoman Tatiana Aleshina, continued yesterday with the complainant refusing to answer some questions...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parliament built on private land
IN January we published a story saying part of the land on which Zimbabwe's new US$140 million Parliament and the planned US$60 billion ultra-modern Cyber City in Mt Hampden on the outskirts of the ca...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC grabs land worth US$5m
LAND worth millions of United States dollars was parcelled among Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors and management at the Harare City Council with the corruption also sucking in legislato...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bring back Bulawayo council parks' glory
FOR most parents in Bulawayo, council parks were safe places where they knew their children could innocently play and have fun.During Christmas time, parks like Centenary Park along Leopold Ta...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says households may be disconnected from the national electricity grid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said households may be disconnected from the national electricity grid in response to the crippling energy crisis."We have a blueprint which targets hous...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti details illegal land grab in dodgy deal between Augur Investments and Harare City Council
HARARE East legislator, Tendai Biti has revealed that part of the land reportedly grabbed by Augur Investments in their dispute with the City of Harare (COH) was nefariously seized without the knowled...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Relegated Harare City thump Bosso
Harare City 1 - 1 HighlandersHARARE City bowed out of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League with a bang after thumping Highlanders at the National Sports Stadium and ending the Bulawayo giants' f...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare City relegated
Highlanders 1 - 1 ZPC KaribaHARARE CITY have been relegated from the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League after ZPC Kariba held Highlanders in an exciting match at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday....Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa denies knowing his tender tycoon nephew
"I don't even know this gentleman."With these words, President Cyril Ramaphosa has, for the first time, denied knowing Hangwani Morgan Maumela, his nephew from a previous marriage, who scored ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti continues ConCourt application
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change executive Tendai Biti yesterday continued with submission of papers in a case he is seeking referral of his assault trial to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ken Sharpe is Zimbabwe's greatest land heist, says Tendai Biti
Politician-cum-lawyer, Tendai Biti has implicated controversial businessman Ken Sharpe in what he said was the greatest land heist in the history of post- independent Zimbabwe.Sharpe owns Augu...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare infrastructure now 20 years behind maintenance, says mayor
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume says the city's infrastructure is now 20 years behind its rehabilitation schedule and regrets the authority's endless financial woes that have made it impossible to undertake...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's epic speech on epic day
MEMORY is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the an...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 9 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
West's double standards on coal slammed
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday slammed the West's double standards that discourage African countries from generating power from coal while ignoring the fact that these first world countries developed t...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that opposition councillors are corrupt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday accused opposition-led local government councils of being "corrupt opportunists".He made the remarks at the burial of the late national hero, Oliver Chid...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said time has come to vote out corrupt opposition councillors whose parties have not only run down local authorities but are puppets of Western countries that want to rem...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | 8 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 13 | by Dumisani Muleya
3 African Stars Who Could Win a Golf Major in 2022
The professional golf schedule is manic, to say the least, with a year-round conveyor belt of events on all of the major tours ensuring the players have no shortage of options for picking up ranking p...Published: 12 May 2022 at 13:58hrs | 4 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa says 'Britain should mind its own business'
MEDDLESOME Britain should focus on problems at home and stop poking its nose into the affairs of Zimbabwe through contrived stories and false oppositional narratives, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans shouldn't marry political parties as if they were wives!
On a visit into the Kwekwe CBD (central business district) this morning to run some personal errands, I could not help being flabbergasted, as I always am, at the usual sight of disheveled and unkempt...Published: 03 May 2022 at 14:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZIMRA bus in horrifying accident...4 confirmed dead
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority bus was involved in a tragic accident on Tuesday that has reportedly claimed the lives of four of its members. According to a statement issued by the Revenue Aut...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 09:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAA UK releases nominee list
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) on Friday announced the final nominees list for its UK 11th Anniversary Awards slated for May 28.The awards dinner gala will be held at Holiday Inn City, Bi...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vows to wrest Harare from opposition
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa told thousands of Zanu-PF supporters in Shamva, Mashonaland Central province that Zanu-PF was going to take over all council seats held by the opposition in Harare....Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchadeyi Masunda's wife dies
Harare City Council (HCC) Saturday announced the death of Mrs Fikile Patricia Faith Masunda, wife of former Harare Mayor Mr Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda.The local government authority said Mrs Mas...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | | by Staff
Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc
In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. O...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | 12 | by Peter Hitchens
Mapeza's work ethic charms Mangwiro
HARARE City coach Taurai Mangwiro is charmed by Norman Mapeza's work ethic and has heaped praise on the FC Platinum coach ahead of the two teams' league clash at Mandava Stadium on Saturday.Th...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAPS Utd to sign Machazane
CAPS UNITED could add another ace in their squad with the signing of defensive pillar Marshal Machazane expected to be completed today ahead of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against M...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to hold massive rally in Harare
It's all systems go as Zanu-PF readies for a massive rally in Harare to be headlined by President Mnangagwa this weekend as he launches the ruling party's campaign for the March 26 by-elections....Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare raid CAPS Utd
HARARE giants Dynamos yesterday made a huge statement after they snatched defender Brandon Mpofu from traditional rivals CAPS United ahead of the resumption of domestic football.Mpofu, who spe...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council recruits more traffic cops
Harare City Council has certified 166 new municipal police officers to boost traffic management in the CBD and assist in reducing congestion during peak hours.Speaking at the certification of ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a destination of choice in investments, says Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE is a destination of choice in terms of investments with the country going up the ladder in the list of destinations with sound ease of doing business policies that will propel it to become an...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:22hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
PSL set for mid-week resumption
THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) will resume with a midweek schedule after the weekend break where the Warriors are involved in the Fifa World Cup qualifiers.Zimbabwe will play Sou...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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