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51 Zimbabwe parastatals fail to submit financials
A total of fifty-one state-owned enterprises have failed to submit their financial statements for auditing to the Auditor-General, as required by law.The Acting Auditor-General, Mrs. Rhea Kuji...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aspiring MP in land scam
Zanu-PF's aspiring parliamentary candidate for Goromonzoi South constituency Tinashe Chikonye has been accused of parcelling out State land to home-seekers in Caledonia, claiming the land was his....Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Low to middle-income housing project takes off from Bulawayo
BULAWAYO yesterday witnessed the official launch of a US$11 million housing project that will result in the construction of thousands of low-cost housing units in selected parts of the country with th...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo master plan raises stink
RED flags have been raised over a deal to design a master plan for development between Masvingo City and the Urban Development Corporation (UDCORP) amid allegations of flagrant violation of public...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Land barons hiding behind Mnangagwa's name'
A HARARE resident, Samuel Mutete, has written to Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) calling for invest...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Govt rescues duped UDCORP beneficiaries
THE government has pledged to assist Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) beneficiaries that paid for residential stands four years ago in Chitungwiza that were not delivered.The stands in q...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cabinet halts sale of houses, flats
The sale of Government houses and flats to sitting tenants has been halted with immediate effect as part of measures to address shortages of accommodation for civil servants, with more housing to be b...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Soldiers fined for bashing cops
Two members of the Zimbabwe National Army have been slapped with $400 fines for assaulting two female police officers as they resisted arrest after bashing a Udcorp employee who had denied their reque...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makokoba, Sakubva, Mbare set for a facelift
GOVERNMENT has mobilised $139,24 million to regenerate the country's oldest urban settlements, with Mbare, Makokoba and Sakubva suburbs set to benefit, a Cabinet minister has said.Addressing j...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
One year on with a listening President
Following the events that transpired last year around this time, Zimbabwe underwent government transition ushering in the Second Republic which has proved far removed from the era of former president ...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 15:06hrs | 7 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa cries
Harare South legislator, Tongai Mnangagwa broke down in parliament this morning as he narrated how the government has left land seekers at the mercy of land barons.Narrating to the situation i...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Absence of a responsible Local Authority reducing Caledonia to a ghost location
Situated approximately 21kilometers from Harare city centre, Caledonia is a home to about 33 000 households that are predominantly civil servants. The area is further divided into almost 21 phases. Ge...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Brightface Mutema
Govt to set up new suburb in Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is set to establish a new suburb in Bulawayo with more than 2 000 housing stands and will build civil servants' houses in Lupane, Matabeleland North. Delays in construction of civil...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
5 000 'duped' in stands deal
AT least 5 000 Bulawayo residents, mainly youths from the ruling Zanu-PF who registered to benefit from Umvutshwa housing project could have been duped of their monies after Government indicated it wa...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to establish policy think-tank
ZANU-PF is set to establish a think-tank that will research on policies that the party intends to implement to avoid implementing programmes that may negatively impact on the economy. In an in...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | 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 | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa evictees seek recourse
RESIDENTS occupying the contested Nyarungu Estate under the Phillip Chiyangwa-owned Jetmaster Properties have approached the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) in a bid to stop a High Court dire...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government to float $150m housing bond
The government will in the next few weeks float a $150 million bond to kick start the command housing project across the country.The plan which is being made through government housing investm...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Calls for Kasukuwere's arrest
ZANU-PF Central Committee member Elifasi Mashaba has called for the arrest of former Cabinet Minister, Mr Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of duping Bulawayo residents over stands at Umvutshwa on the ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
$150 million for Command Housing
GOVERNMENT has issued a $150 million bond to kick-start the Command Housing Programme, which is part of Zanu-PF's sustainable development programmes to deliver more than a million houses by 2023....Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Muduvuri in verbal tussle
Zanu-PF National Consultative Assembly member Jimayi Muduvuri has accused Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa of making unfounded allegations over ownership of a piece of land in the constituency....Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo youths sold bottled smoke
Zanu-PF youths in the second largest city and its hinterland are seething with anger after President Robert Mugabe 's government claimed last year to have made available swathes of land for housing de...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere reads riot act
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has threatened to fire the Urban Development Corporation management for reported failure to perform to expectations....Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt focuses on high-rise buildings
Government is now moving towards constructing high-rise apartments as opposed to expending more land on single storey houses following President Mugabe's call to stop the wanton distribution of land f...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Mugabe 'is our life president', says Zanu-PF youth chair
Get the latest details as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe kicks off a nationwide series of rallies to drum up support from youths ahead of the 2018 elections....Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 13:24hrs | | by Online
Kasukuwere in contempt of court over land
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been taken to court for contempt together with the Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) after they sub-div...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mugabe wants Kasukuwere out
President Robert Mugabe was influenced to turn against Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere after being lobbied by a businessman close to his wife and a State House official angered by a $20 m...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt dupes civil servants
Government's non-monetary incentive residential stands scheme has hit a snag after the122 000 signed up civil servants threatened to pull out following revelations that they will have to pay for t...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No rule of law in Zimbabwe,' says Mugabe ally
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says land barons are giving him "sleepless nights" as they are raking in millions of dollars in untaxed money so that he now agrees with the notion that "there i...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants to revolt aganist Government
Thousands of disgruntled civil servants have threatened to revolt against government as they feel cheated on residential stands deal. Close to 122 000 signed up for the stands to be...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Robert Mugabe's SONA address - Fulltext
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, COMRADE RG MUGABE, TUESDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2016.Madame Presi...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 04:54hrs | 2 | by Roberg G Mugabe
Civil servants demand bonus, salary dates
Civil servants have written to the Government demanding to be furnished with dates for the 2016 bonuses and their salaries.The workers said they wanted their salaries before December 25 to...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants stands going for a song
Cabinet has directed that residential stands civil servants are expecting under a Government non-monetary incentive scheme be pegged at $4 per square metre to ensure affordability.The work...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa drags manager to court
Flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa's company - Pinnacle Property Holdings (Pinnacle) - has dragged its site manager to court for allegedly siphoning $6 500 received from clients.The a...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF lures voters with food, residential stands in Norton by-election'
In an attempt to garner support for Zanu PF candidate Ronald Chindedza ahead of the Norton by-election, Zanu PF officials are reportedly parcelling out food and stands among other freebies during rall...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jake
Mnangagwa undresses Kasukuwere on land distribution
Local Government minister and Zanu PF National political commisor Saviour Kasukuwere is illegally parcelling out state land to Zanu PF youths, vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.In par...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 08:03hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Mliswa a problem child: Kasukuwere
Thousands of people including Zanu PF Politburo members thronged Kingsdale Farm in Norton district to witness the launch of the revolutionary party campaign programme to drum up support for the pa...Published: 19 Sep 2016 at 17:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere fingers Lacoste in land row
Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere came out guns blazing skating the State media for pursuing factional agendas and misinforming the country's land allocations in Zimbabwe. Kasuk...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blasts Kasukuwere for selling land to Prophet Magaya
President Mugabe yesterday blasted Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere for reportedly selling land earmarked for Harare youths to Prophet Walter Magaya and ...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Felex Share
Zanu-PF supporters clash over stands
Bloody clashes have rocked Caledonia Farm after Zanu-PF supporters allegedly invaded the informal settlement in an attempt to elbow out old settlers. The invasion came after Udcorp moved i...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Home seekers urged to join Umvutsha Housing Scheme
REGISTRATION for the Umvutsha Housing Scheme is progressing well in Bulawayo with home seekers urged to take advantage of the Government-driven initiative to secure affordable accommodation....Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth to contribute $50 for houses
Beneficiaries of residential stands under Zanu-PF sponsored project in Bulawayo are expected to make $50 monthly contributions.Registration for Umvutsha B kicks off today and its $5....Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New urban land grabbers warned
The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere has warned individuals and groups involved in a new wave of urban land grab to stop the illegal activities forthw...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hundreds of youths set to get residential stands
Hundreds of youths in Harare East constituency are set to benefit from the ongoing residential infrastructure development in line with the economic blueprint ZIM ASSET.Addressing Zanu PF youth...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF youth township project kicks off next week
THE construction of an exclusive Zanu PF youth township outside Bulawayo begins next week, Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Saviour Kasukuwere.A ground br...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Illegal settlers get 48-hour ultimatum
Chitungwiza Municipality has bemoaned the mushrooming of illegal settlements in parts of the town. The council has since given the illegal settlers a 48-hour ultimatum to vacate. In a statemen...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 00:13hrs | | by Ellah Mukwati and Rutendo Rori
Four new suburbs in the pipeline
THE government will use various funding mechanisms to develop three new suburbs in Harare and one in Bulawayo, Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has said....Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 11:19hrs | | by Happiness Zengeni and Martin Kadzere
New town to be constructed near Bulawayo
The government has endorsed for the construction of three new towns around Zimbabwe, two near Harare and one near Bulawayo.The project will see construction of over 150 000 housing unit. Benef...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt bans housing co-ops
Government has stopped allocating land to developers and housing co-operatives with immediate effect, while all servicing and housing development on State land will be done by the Urban Development Co...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:20hrs | | by Innocent Ruwende and Farai Mukuwane
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