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Harare Council pumps raw sewage into Lake Chivero
Harare residents are raising alarm over an elaborate scheme involving corrupt city council officials that is leading to the loss of properties and stands. In the latest scandal, four residents in Mabv...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:36hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Harare land scam unmasked
Harare residents are raising alarm over an elaborate scheme involving corrupt city council officials that is leading to the loss of properties and stands. In the latest scandal, four residents in Mabv...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:36hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pegs 2025 budget at US$309m
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has unveiled a proposed budget of US$309 million for 2025, marking a 17% increase from the US$264 million budget for 2024. The proposal, presented by the Finance and De...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:44hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe era farm grab victims to make way for Mnangagwa's wife
In a distressing echo of past land disputes, villagers residing at Arnold Farm, commonly known as Manzou, are reportedly facing pressures to vacate their homes to make way for First Lady Auxilia Mnang...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:40hrs | 2227 | by Staff reporter
Over 100 at risk of losing Cowdray Park stands
More than 100 beneficiaries of the Government-funded Hlalani Kuhle housing project in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb risk losing their properties due to the lack of proper council documentation. ...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:28hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to utilise PPPs to expedite roads rehab in Matebeleland
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development says it is utilising Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to expedite the rehabilitation of some dilapidated roads in the Matabeleland region....Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Maintaining graves is not Bulawayo City Council's job
THE Bulawayo City Council has urged residents with relatives buried at different cemeteries in the city to constantly check and maintain the graves as it is not the duty of the local authority to do t...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Plans to relocate tollgates at advanced stage
THE Skyline Tollgate will soon be moved to the 36km peg along the Harare-Masvingo Road, moving it outside the present urban conglomeration, while the new Shamva tollgate which was last month moved fro...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt pegs property rentals in US$
GOVERNMENT has pegged monthly rentals for all its properties in United States dollars ranging from US$5 to US$160, as the Zimdollar continues to lose value against the greenback.A Finance mini...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human rights lawyers rescues disgruntled villagers as court stop Chinese illegal operations
A ZIMBABWEAN court has stopped Labenmon Investments, a Chinese mining company, from conducting illegal mining operations on ancestral land belonging to some Mutoko villagers in Mashonaland East provin...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 20:14hrs | 13 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimdollar in record crash
THE Zimbabwe dollar tumbled by nearly 26% on the official market on Tuesday, the biggest collapse in one day since the auction system was introduced three years ago, while a government inquiry accused...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Falcon College pegs fees at $11 million
UPMARKET Falcon College has pegged its second term fees at a staggering US$10,588.79 just as University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students celebrate a High Court judgement barring the institution from hiking t...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
ZITF pegs entry fees
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) has announced entry fees for this year's much-anticipated exhibition.The international exhibition is set to roar to life on 25th April and will see...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 13:52hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Part of Bulawayo - Victoria Falls road closed
A SECTION of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road in Hwange will be temporarily closed between the 337km and 338.5km pegs to allow for the construction of a crossing pipeline by Afcons Vijeta-JV on behalf...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hikes court fees, further pegs services in US dollars
Zimbabwe has increased fees and further introduced US dollar payments for all services obtained within the country's courts, something that continues to put access to justice beyond the reach of the p...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare pegs 2023 rates in forex
Harare City Council yesterday announced its 2023 budget that has rates indexed in US dollars with a high-density suburban holder set to fork out a minimum of US$23,15 in rates and fees a month, althou...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Allocate more funds for Nkayi projects'
GOVERNMENT has been urged to increase funding in the 2023 budget to ensure speedy completion of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road and Ziminya Dam projects, which would enhance economic activity and create more ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt races towards Deka timelines
TRUCKLOADS of a massive consignment of pipes and key equipment for the US$48,1 million Deka Pipeline Project continue to be delivered in Hwange as Government races to ensure the March 2023 implementat...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec pegs exam fees in US$
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has announced fees for the November examinations, with government subsidising 55% for pupils in public schools.In a statement, the examination...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers' performance contracts illegal?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday railroaded his Cabinet ministers, heads of State-owned entities and parastatals into signing performance contracts, but critics said the contracts were difficult...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Shock as council allocates stands on tarred streets
THE corruption-riddled Harare City Council has torched yet another storm after facilitating and allocating several residential stands on tarred streets in Harare, plus converting recreation areas and ...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
US$ bonus: Civil servants demand more
CIVIL servants yesterday attacked the United Stated dollar-denominated bonus as not enough, with teacher unions warning that it would not stop them from going on strike beginning Monday.Civil ...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner pegs whole village
VILLAGERS in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, are up in arms against a Chinese company, Heijin Mining, whose black granite mining claim covers the entire village.This was revealed in a lette...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uzumba villagers block Chinese miner
Villagers in ward 14 (Nhakiwa), Uzumba constituency are against the proposed granite mining project by a Chinese company Heijin and have since written to the Mines and Mining Development ministry thro...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe hurtling towards stagflation'
LAST week the CEO Africa Roundtable (CEOART) gathered some of Zimbabwe's best economists and industrialists to digest economic developments during the first quarter of 2021. What came out of the summi...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
AfDB pegs Zimbabwe growth at 4,2%
ZIMBABWE'S economy contracted by 10% last year and is envisaged to grow by 4,2% in 2021 if effective measures are taken to stabilise foreign exchange and avoid excessive money creation, the African De...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
School fees payable in all currencies
SCHOOLS should accept all currencies usable in the country as legal tender, a development that will bring relief to parents who are being forced to look for United States dollars to pay school fees. ...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Central bank and monetary policy independence
The government of Zimbabwe recently dissolved the inaugural Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that had been appointed in September 2019 and swiftly appointed a new team to fill up the void. The committe...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 22:34hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Zinara has turned a new leaf
THE Grant Thornton Forensic Audit commissioned by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development in 2016 highlighted several corporate governance deficiencies at the Zimbabwe National Road ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Watching in horror as the giants fell, one after another - The demise of public entities in Zimbabwe
When preparing this article, I was faced with the task of reviewing numerous press articles, news items and placing them alongside my own vast observations on what happened to the once thriving public...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 19:41hrs | 8 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
Provincial mining director sucked into mine wrangle
A nasty gold mine ownership wrangle with all the ingredients of a dramatic legal battle sucking in a provincial mining director is brewing in Inyathi after a mining company seized a villager's farm wi...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans mine pegging in reserved areas
GOVERNMENT has banned the issuance of special mining grants in reserved areas, effectively shutting the door on prospecting in contentious areas.The announcement was made last week in an inter...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyamandlovu farmer charged over threats to shoot govt officials
A Nyamandlovu farmer has been dragged to court on charges of threatening to shoot lands ministry officials that are allegedly trying to force him off his property.Ramutsi Mukwena, who runs Wel...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chitando dragged to court over gold mining claims
A LOCAL mining company, Earthrow Investments (Pvt) Ltd has petitioned the High Court seeking an order barring another mining company called Pahasha Somalia Mining Syndicate, from prospecting, extracti...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to put price control measures: ZIMTA
Civil servants have pleaded with Government to set a control framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments.Government has tabled a 76 percent salary adjustme...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goblins wreak havoc in family
A SEEMINGLY unremorseful Mutasa man who let his family live in abject poverty and incessant torment from several goblins he allegedly possessed has been ordered by Chief Mutasa to take the lead in cle...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff repoirter
Bright Matonga dragged to court
FORMER Information deputy minister Bright Matonga has been hauled to the High Court by three Chegutu farmers, who are seeking to bar him from encroaching onto their land.Onias Masiwa, Richard ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru to slash crops
GWERU City Council has warned residents cultivating on undesignated land that the local authority would slash their crops as their activities were damaging the drainage systems.Town clerk Eliz...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Willing recolonisation will forever be the hallmark of MDC-Alliance
The folly of Zimbabwe's destiny lies in a fetish plinth that Sadc and the African Union (AU) are insignificant to the African cause, while the European Union (EU) and International Criminal Court (ICC...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mohadi's company pricing services at black market rates
Malindi Transit Shed (MTS), a Beitbridge-based company in which Vice President Kembo Mohadi is a major shareholder is charging storage fees for vehicles imported from Mussina in South Africa at black ...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt targets ghost workers
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is targeting "ghost workers" in the civil service as part of government's transformative agenda, chairperson Vincent Hungwe has said.Hungwe told journalists...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested for removing council demarcation pegs
A 79-YEAR-OLD old Epworth woman appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Courts on Wednesday facing charges of removing beacons demarcating the boundaries of residential stands installed by the Local Board...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence sells out land baron
A SUSPECTED land baron accused of illegally parcelling out land belonging to diversified group, CFI Holdings in Harare's Glen View 7 suburb has been remanded in custody after an orgy of violence....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why the British had no other choice but to work with Mnangagwa
As I reflected on the tons of emails of feedback I got yesterday including from local embassies responding to the article published by nehandaradio, in which I wrote about the Zimbabwe-British relatio...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Bulawayo ready to hand over 900 Luveve 5 stands
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is working to avail stands in four suburbs, with nearly 900 ready to be handed over to beneficiaries in Luveve 5.BCC senior Public Relations Officer, Mrs Nesisa...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Youth a deciding factor in next election'
THE MDC has stepped up its campaign to have thousands of youths register for next year's elections by reminding them that they hold keys to who becomes the country's leader after the eagerly-anticipat...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Re-introducing the Zimdollar will be economic suicide
THE adoption of bond notes as official currency would worsen the parallel market, thereby, quickening inflation, analysts have warned.Last week, government's top adviser on ease of doing busin...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
We never kill each other in our party, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, as we remembered the gallant sons and daughters of the land, I was saddened by the sudden passing on of Cde Shuvai, one of the young and very energe...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by CZ
'Give bond notes local currency value'
The Government has been urged to remove pegs between bond notes and the United States dollar for the surrogate money to establish its own value and become local currency.The need for a local c...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's the Zimdollar, stupid!
Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especiall...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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