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SA asks for water from Zimbabwe
South African border officials at Beitbridge have requested water supplies from the Beitbridge Municipality after their pumps were washed away by the swollen Limpopo River three times.Beitbrid...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:20hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains continue to destroy property
More damages to infrastructure and households have been recorded in various parts of the country as downpours persist with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) expecting isolated thunderstorms...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Clinic operating without toilets
A health time bomb is looming in a Roman run Mutora clinic which is operating without toilets.Ironically, a health facility is expected...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 11:09hrs | 14 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/Desmond Nhleya
Beitbridge govt houses now occupied
BENEFICIARIES of government constructed houses at Beitbridge reportedly started occupying them after they were commissioned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently.This was despite reports th...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa warned that threats won't work
AFTER years of haggling between teachers and the government, the authorities are issuing fresh threats of dismissed if educators continue with their ongoing industrial action. Farirai Musekiwa (59) sa...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge cuts water supplies to Mnangagwa commissioned houses
The Beitbridge municipality has cut water supplies to the government houses commissioned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week, citing lack of specific occupants.Mnangagwa commissioned 28 ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft dragnet to sink bigwigs
AT LEAST 41 high-profile figures face imminent arrest over corruption allegations, including those sucked in a US$23 million scam at the embattled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ).The wide ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 3 | 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 | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Housing nightmare for Beitbridge civil servants
SCORES of Beitbridge civil servants continue to live in squalid conditions because government is taking long to officially hand over a cluster of houses built for its workers four months ago.S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge govt workers plead for accommodation
Civil servants in Beitbridge, who are facing accommodation challenges, have raised concern over favouritism in the allocation of 176 government houses in the border town.Some potential benefic...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baboons invade army barracks
The Binga District Residents Association says baboons have invaded Binga Town and are terrorising residents and workers including army employees. "Binga town residents have been experiencing a...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 23:00hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Beitbridge suffers neglect, could have looked like Victoria Falls
THE dusty small town of Beitbridge now pins its hopes for development on the proposed one-stop border post (OSBP).Yet with all its attributes, the town could have done better.Beitbridg...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
It's never too late to do right
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe told members of his party's youth league on Saturday that they should expect to see Cabinet changes in the coming days as he seeks to foster a sense of unity of purpos...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 12:37hrs | | by dailynews
12 Zimbabwe embassies sued over salary arrears
At least 12 of Zimbabwe's 40-plus diplomatic missions have been sued over salary arrears for staff and some have been put under legal notice for eviction over unpaid rentals.Auditor-General Mi...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 14:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lets shun abuse and Rebuild our country Zimbabweans
Lets stand up as peace loving citizens and say no to corruption ,domestic violence and institutional abuse.Zimbabwe is now 37 years of age.If we want to accomplish great things, we must not only act, ...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 18:33hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Ex-civil servants told to vacate Govt houses
Thirteen former civil servants will now leave the Government houses they have been occupying in Highfield after the High Court confirmed their eviction. The 13 were refusing to leave on th...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand stands
Civil servants have demanded that Government comes up with a housing scheme for them as part of non-monetary incentives. The workers, who had a three-day engagement with their employer thi...Published: 08 Oct 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents fire warnings on residential stands sales
Residents of Gwanda have expressed outrage at the way their local authority is selling and allocating residential stands in the town. Extracts from the Gwanda residents social media chats show...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mphoko hotel stay under spotlight
VICE-President Phelekezela Mphoko, has, like President Robert Mugabe, emerged as a polarising figure since his appointment to the presidium in December 2014.In June 2014, Mphoko reportedly...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kuwaza's refusal to vacate Government mansion a tip of the ice burg
The stance taken by the embattled former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, to refuse vacating an official SPB house that he used during his service, demanding that the propert...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
China builds state-of-the-art school in Lupane
"THE Chinese and Zimbabweans are excellent friends, not just today, friends that have established their friendship and our future will always be on the path of that. We are all-weather friends."...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:29hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
MP questions govt over shortage of funds yet buying flashy cars for ministers
The MDC Prosper Chapfiwa Mutseyami has questioned the government over its claims that it has no money yet giving money to buy vehicles and live in government houses."This Parliament has a lot ...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Doctors threaten strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has threatened to strike if Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo effects the proposed rental increase on government accommodation.Accordin...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Government geared to implement Zim-Asset
The recent launch of the National Housing Delivery Programme by Cde Ignatius Chombo, the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing is a reflection of Government's sincerity i...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 08:56hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Former-police chief 'refuses' to vacate govt house
A former police deputy commissioner is reportedly refusing to vacate a house allocated to him in Bulawayo when he was still in office.Moses Griffith Mpofu, 60, has been taken to court by the M...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Court Reporter
More decay unearthed at Bulawayo schools
A headmaster in Mzilikazi district in Bulawayo is under investigation by the Ministry of Education after he allegedly registered bright pupils only as formal students, while those considered "dull" we...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magistrates, prosecutors fight over houses
THE battle over a Government house pitting magistrates and prosecutors in Beitbridge has taken a new twist with the former taking the latter to court for defying their directive to vacate the property...Published: 25 Feb 2013 at 07:32hrs | 4 | by Beitbridge Reporter
Govt requires US$40 million to complete 104 buildings
GOVERNMENT requires US$40 million to complete 104 buildings that are nearing completion amid audit revelations that it was losing millions of dollars as building material at some construction sites ha...Published: 04 Nov 2012 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Global high-rollers for Tsvangirai's Sept 15 wedding
The Daily News reports that some global high-rollers and nearly a dozen African leaders are expected for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's September 15 wedding to Elizabeth Macheka, in a telling show...Published: 07 Sep 2012 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politicians face eviction from government houses
SOME politicians who are renting out Government houses are facing eviction to accommodate deserving civil servants, a Cabinet minister has said.National Housing and Social Amenities minister, ...Published: 06 Nov 2011 at 07:19hrs | | by Sehlule Zondo
Widow of national hero ordered to vacate the army house
The widow of national hero Brigadier-General Paul Armstrong Gunda has been ordered by the the High Court to vacate the army house she has been occupying since the death of her husband in 2007....Published: 05 Jul 2011 at 23:27hrs | 3 | by Moyo Roy
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