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Ministry cracks whip on council land deals
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has directed all local authorities to submit information relating to land deals conducted under the current crop of Councillors whose tenure expires i...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leading Zimbabwe down destructive path, says Kasukuwere
Exiled former Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has expressed anger and discontent over the path Zimbabwe is being led down by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration say...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 15:43hrs | 6389 | by Staff reporter
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7497 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Govt makes it mandatory to test all corpses for Covid-19, virus kills 14 people in one week
AT least 14 people have died from Covid-19 on admission to health institutions across the country in the last six days with the Government making it mandatory for all corpses to be tested for the viru...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:28hrs | 734 | by Staff Reporter
Mr Mnangagwa: Are you not kicking the can down the road?
DEAR President ED Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, I hope I find you well. The political script playing out in Zimbabwe is quite familiar not only to me, but many other citizens now fed up with the ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 3709 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Embassies caught in stands storm
WESTERN embassies (names supplied) were favoured in the illegal parcelling of residential stands by the MDC Alliance-led council in Harare as the opposition party used its control of the capital city ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, civil servants delight in housing programme
Scores of war veterans and civil servants on Sunday expressed their delight after benefitting from a housing project in Melfort, Goromonzi, that will see many of them becoming property owners....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:15hrs | 1591 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Organisations lobby for improved education sector wages
NATIONAL Employment Council for Zimbabwe Schools Development Associations and Committees in government (NEC-ZSDA/C) have called for the immediate increase in teachers and ancillary staff wages to resc...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 412 | by Stephen Jakes
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1396 | by Brian T Kagoro
Harare Mayor arrested
Harare Mayor Hebert Gomba has been arrested on allegations involving land scams and abuse of office as a public officer.Mayor Gomba is accused of being in the illegal creation and sale of stan...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 21:21hrs | 2428 | by Staff reporter
IFC Announces $50 Million Loan to Equity Bank to Support Kenyan SMEs During COVID-19
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to help it increase working capital and trade-related lending to its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 15:56hrs | 170 | by Stephen Jakes
BREAKING: Harare Mayor Hebert Gomba arrested by ZACC for corruption
The State-owned Herald has reported that Harare Mayor His Worship Hebert Gomba has been arrested on allegations involving land scams and abuse of office as a public officer.The arrest of Gomba...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6862 | by Mandla Ndlovu
IFC Announces $50 Million Loan to Equity Bank to Support Kenyan SMEs During COVID-19
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to help it increase working capital and trade-related lending to its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:19hrs | 144 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-Zanu-PF councillor dies
A FORMER Zanu-PF councillor in the Hwange Local Board (HLB) has died at the age of 83. Chemist Dube, popularly known as Dali in the party structures, died at Hwange Colliery Hospital in the ea...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:03hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
#July31 and #Zanupfmustgo: Another failed political heist in the making
The 31st July movement which is being propelled mainly by Jonathan Moyo and his G40 associates is another failed political heist in the making, after all else has failed to unseat, a duly elected gove...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:59hrs | 2608 | by Zvinyaningwe Mangwiro
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Farm Mechanization grand looting
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the much talked about farm mechanization saga was nothing more than a subsidy scheme meant to assist farmers. Moyo's remarks follow the statements issued by former...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:45hrs | 8506 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chinotimba roasts Chipinge Town Secretary
Buhera South MP, Joseph Chinotimba who suspects that Chipinge Town Engineer resigned in a huff last month to escape prosecution over scandals involving devolution funds went ballistic during a Parliam...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:27hrs | 3572 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's 6th Avenue officially named Emmerson Mnangagwa Way
The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing July Moyo has issued a Government Gazette renaming roads all over the country. One of the notable changes is the renaming of...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 12:03hrs | 4131 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Audit exposes Gweru council decay
GWERU City Council doled out residential stands to workers in lieu of outstanding salaries and bonuses for 2015 without government approval and in violation of the Urban Councils Act, a forensic land ...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Youths hail government support on housing
Youths in Goromonzi District have hailed government's support in ensuring that citizens get residential stands through regularisation of illegal settlements in the area.Recently, National Hous...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 06:17hrs | 589 | by Simbarashe Sithole
SA firm steps in to ease hunger among destitute Zimbabweans
Some Zimbabweans living in South Africa have benefitted from aid distributed by a Johannesburg headquartered company, T2N, and the Gauteng Food Security Committee since lockdown began in March....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:52hrs | 1556 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Mnangagwa's govt to regularise illegal settlements
Government has embarked on an exercise to regularise all illegal settlements in urban centres across the country and has engaged experts to expedite the process.Speaking at a Zanu-PF provincia...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2028 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for help to resuscitate ailing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to various stakeholders to participate in the development of a National Development Strategy in efforts to rebuild the ailing economy.This comes as Zi...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 6136 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1127 | by Staff Reporter
BF stadium set for partial demolition
Bulawayo's ceremonial home of football, Barbourfields Stadium is set for partial demolition as part of the refurbishment works in line with CAF requirements.As part of efforts to ensure that E...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:54hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for 6 Harare council employees
DETECTIVES from the Commercial Crimes Division have launched a manhunt for six Harare City Council employees who are at large over the US$1 million Kuwadzana stands scam involving director of human re...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 3869 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities highlight need to test truck drivers
Authorities at Forbes Border Post in Mutare have highlighted the need to test truck drivers passing through the port of entry for better management of any potential Covid-19 cases, as most of them wer...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Shoppers influx at supermarkets during lockdown irks council
The influx of citizens at most shops in the city centre during lockdown has irked the city council which is worried that this would increase the spread of the Covid-19.This is revealed in the ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3714 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC to repossess undeveloped stands
THE Bulawayo City Council has resolved to repossess 179 stands in Cowdray Park, Entumbane and Pumula after the owners failed to develop them.Some of the property owners have gone for 22 years ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
New stadium for Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council has identified a site where it intends to construct a new state of the art Stadium that conforms to Fifa and Caf standards.It has also emerged that installation of ne...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 7110 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:06hrs | 2269 | by Nomusa Garikai
Govt launches regularisation programme
Government has launched the national regularisation programme, which is expected to tighten the screws on land barons by bringing sanity to all informal settlements countrywide. Land barons ha...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 2489 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4409 | by Staff reporter
City health workers reject salary offer
Harare City Council nurses have rejected a $4 498,18 salary offer presented by the local authority, arguing that the proposed figures were below the poverty datum line, and have issued a 14-day ultima...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8996 | by Staff reporter
What's in a name and history?
SOMEWHERE in Buhera East, near Dorowa Mine before you cross Save River into Ziyambi Purchase Area, there is a school named after King Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. I would give everything to know if posteri...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 261 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
No respite for Robin Vela
A special anti-corruption unit in the Office of President will pursue criminal charges against individuals implicated in the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) audit report despite High Court s...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:36hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Black lives matter-not at all, not in Zanu PF's Zimbabwe - 1 000 lost lives count 1 official death
Government has confirmed that schools will reopen on Tuesday July 28. In May government announced that schools will reopen 29 June but was forced to postpone to allow the relevant authorities "to mobi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:39hrs | 2284 | by Wilbert Mukori
'MDC Alliance regrets Luveve deaths'
THE MDC Alliance has apologised to Bulawayo families that lost their loved ones to a diarrhoea outbreak that has infected over 1 000 residents to date. Nine people have died from gastrointestinal infe...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to buy land for Beitbridge workers
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is spending at least $2.4 million on renting properties to house its workers at Beitbridge Border Post and is considering acquiring the former Beitbridge Express...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents petition over mayor's US$2 land deal
Residents dumped mock coffins at the Luveve housing offices in Bulawayo in protest against contaminated water, which has resulted in 60 diarrhoea cases being reported, while five people have died as a...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Rampant selling of land in Harare irks the trust
Harare Residents Trust has expressed concerns that there is so much selling of council land in Harare such that town planning officials now report that there is no longer land for housing in Harare....Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 2205 | by Stephen Jakes
Council staffer commits suicide
A HARARE City Council employee based at Remembrance Drive offices in Mbare allegedly committed suicide recently under unclear circumstances amid claims that a suicide note has gone missing. Ms...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 669 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sleep in water queues
Twice a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Bring back rule of law to prosecutions
The judgement of the Honourable Chitapi J in the matter of [Saviour] Kasukuwere v Mujayi NO & Others (HH-562-19) (delivered on August 21 2019) is on the face of it scathing to the police, Zimbabwe...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:38hrs | 280 | by Tazorora TG Musarurwa
Is the black American fight ours?
American race relations have once again been the focus of the world's attention after violent riots in the aftermath of yet another killing of a black man by a white policeman. The majority of...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 479 | by Miriam Tose Majome
PHOTOS: Bulawayo residents dump coffins at City Council offices
Disgruntled residents of Bulawayo’s Luveve township staged a mass action at Luveve Housing office to register their displeasure at the death of children who are said to have perished aft...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 11:48hrs | 7849 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's ally pockets US$54m in fresh bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, who has been pocketing millions of dollars from dodgy state contracts, will smile all the way to the bank after making a...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 6158 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to develop debt recovery plan
ENERGY and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi has directed the board of the financially hamstrung power utility Zesa to come up with strategies to recover US$1,2 billion it is owed by customers,...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1817 | by Staff reporter
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