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How Zimbabwe police protect illegal mining

Zimbabwe's environmental laws are among the strictest on the continent when it comes to preventing illegal mining, yet along the banks of the Mutare River, thes

Published: 06 Sep 2025 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

Garwe tells councils to enforce vending ban

Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe has urged councils across Mashonaland West province to ban illegal street vendors, with a particular focus on traders sel

Published: 06 Sep 2025 at 19:02hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Scathing indictment of Harare City Council's corruption and mismanagement

The Harare City Council (HCC) has been exposed as nothing short of a cesspool of corruption, gross mismanagement, and unchecked incompetence since 2017, according to a damning Commission of Inquiry led by Justice Maphios Cheda. Appointed b…

Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 18:34hrs | | by Dereck Goto

MDC-led council show true colours

THE year2020 will go down in the history of the MDC-led Harare City Council as the worst under its leadership. The year exposed existing massive corruption, land scams, leadership crisis, arrests, demolitions and of course the 'usual' poor…

Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Blessings Chidakwa

Central government at the epicentre of the challenges facing local authorities

IntroductionToday is Christmas day, the day we celebrate the birth of the Son of Man, our Lord Jesus Christ. It is  a day that is supposed to be a day of love, unity, togetherness and celebration. A day that families in this country m…

Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 20:19hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka

Corrupt councils need cleansing

AS the umbrella organ playing the oversight role over the way Zimbabwean local councils discharge their mandate for service delivery, the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations of Residents Trusts (ZNOART) registers great concern o…

Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Shepherd Chikomba

Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'

In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre to familiarise, and after trudging the…

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 05:56hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe

Chaos, corruption in councils

THIS continues from last week as we look at actual examples of some of the rot happening in councils reported in the Auditor-General's Report for Local Authorities 2018.The report shows the extent of the gross financial mismanagement of co…

Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 13:28hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome

LIVE: Mnangagwa meets Presidential Advisory Council

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is today holding the inaugural briefing session for the newly established Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) at the State House.Wa

Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

MDC National Council Resolutions

The MDC National Council met today, 22 February 2019 at the party headquarters Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue and made the following resolutions1. The National Situation1.1 Noting the calculated and deliberate St…

Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 20:02hrs | | by MDC

ZCTU, why spare Bulawayo council over rates hike

That the United States has not seized a great opportunity to walk the talk on its human rights mantra shows that things are not what they appear to be.It was always too much to expect US President Donald Trump â€” addicted to sanctions as …

Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 10:32hrs | | by Conway Tutani

Council bosses should bring sanity in cities and towns

Urban and rural council bosses should heed Local Government, Rural Development and National Housing Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere's advice of restoring and maintaining sanity and order in cities and towns under their jurisdiction, if ever s…

Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 13:02hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano

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