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BREAKING: Bulawayo Mayor instructed to report to Thokozani Khupe daily
MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has constituted a Presidential Task Force to look at the death of about 13 people in Luveve in the past months and has instructed Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mad...Published: 13 hrs ago | 4291 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rehabilitation of Nyamandlovu Aquifer boreholes at Rochester hailed
Alderman Clayton Zana has appreciated the work done at Rochester, on the habilitation of supply boreholes.He also enquired if the City boreholes would be rehabilitated too.The latest c...Published: 13 hrs ago | 415 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo Mayor reported to CID homicide and ZACC over Luveve deaths
A national pressure group Chapter 2 Movement has officially reported the Mayor of Bulawayo to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the CID Law and Order over the death of 13 people from Luveve ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2086 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe faces MDC-T national council
MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe will this Wednesday hold her first meeting with the party's national council as they prepare to hold a watershed extraordinary congress (EOC) at the end of the m...Published: 18 hrs ago | 4474 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 18 hrs ago | 335 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 confirmed cases top 700
Another 18 people tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, taking the weekend total to 91 and the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic in Zimbabwe to 716. Three of yesterday's patie...Published: 18 hrs ago | 298 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 19 hrs ago | 4064 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19: Confirmed cases reach 716 in Zimbabwe
Another 18 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the weekend total to 91 and the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic in Zimbabwe to 716, The Herald reported. Three...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1820 | by Staff Reporter
Teachers' salaries frozen
TWO vocal unionists representing rural teachers in Zimbabwe have not been paid for almost two years after the government froze their salaries after they took part in last year's protests against a ste...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5930 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sits on perennial river
IN a case depicting poverty amid plenty, part of the Bulawayo Central Business District (CBD) was built on top of an underground perennial river, despite the city experiencing a crippling water shorta...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
No need to make Africa one country
There is obsession today among many Pan-Africanists of believing a one country Africa as the only viable way Africa can develop and eliminate all the problems it is facing. They believe that a one cou...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 785 | by Lubani Nondo
Zimbabwe records 73 new Covid-19 positive cases in one day
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and refocus on the measures the country adopted at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in March if it is to avert a local transmission crisis, a senior government offic...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2217 | by Staff Reporter
Komichi knows the rules he must apply them
A REPORT by one daily on May 17, 2020 stated that there were some hardliners on both sides of the MDC feud who were working hard to scuttle negotiations for the extraordinary congress suggested by the...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 2124 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Revenue increased 57% in one month and budget surplus became deficit - Ncube hocus pocus finance
In Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe has Charles Dickens unsavoury Oliver Twist characters; Fagin, a conniving career criminal; Bill S...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 05:50hrs | 2080 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Radical Economic Structural Transformation (part 6 of 10)
"The sacrosanct cornerstone and golden thread upon which any successful productive economy can be built is the legal protection of private property ownership."We all know that Zimbabwe's agric...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 10:25hrs | 1639 | by Vince Musewe
Bulawayo residents drinking sewage-contaminated water
BULAWAYO residents could have been exposed to sewage and mud-contaminated water through seepage into burst water pipes, a lat-est council environmental, management and engineering services committee r...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
'No discrimination in farm downsizing'
Government has dismissed reports that the ongoing downsizing of farms is only targeting white farmers and has stressed that it affects everyone with a farm larger than the stipulated maximum size. ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council engineer resigns
GWERU council engineer Robson Manatsa has resigned barely two days after another top official was suspended on graft charges, with sources indicating that more senior employees were likely to quit to ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Kariba inflows peak
In-flows into Lake Kariba have reached their seasonal peak of 481,22 metres, which is about 41,2 percent above the minimum operating level for power generation, as levels start declining.Level...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:52hrs | 3787 | by Staff reporter
Govt yet to decide on school calendar
THE government is yet to decide on the school calendar despite that primary and secondary schools are reopening this month.This comes as schools were forced to close early in March as the gove...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Luveve MP to pay clinic fees for victims of council water
Luveve Member of Parliament Stella Ndlovu has pledged to source funds to assist members of her constituency who have been hospitalized after seeking medical attention after allegedly consuming Council...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1119 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Suspend NetOne CEO suffers setback
SUSPENDED NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje and his alleged accomplices yesterday suffered an initial setback after a Harare magistrate threw out their application for refusal of remand....Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:53hrs | 1981 | by Staff reporter
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2485 | by Staff reporter
A very good lesson from Malawi
It is possible in theory to distinguish revolutionary parties, from those parties working within the mandate of temporal popularity. But the distinction is not always easy to make, because the same pa...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 3186 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
BCC closes roads to under take sewer rehabilitation
BULAWAYO Water and Sewerage Services Improvement Projects (BWSSIP) declared road closure on Thursday in some parts of the city to avoid disturbance as sewerage works commence are likely to take the wh...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 416 | by Stephen Jakes
EcoCash suspends agent, bulk payer lines
DOMINANT mobile money service provider, EcoCash, says all of its agent and bulk payer lines have been suspended until further notice in compliance with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) directive. ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2254 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Introduction - Reform Agenda Part 1 of 3
1. What is the Reform Agenda?The Reform Agenda is a politically conscious organisation that seeks to inform and influence political and civic outcom...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 376 | by Robert Sigauke
Cain Mathema summoned over schools reopening
PARLIAMENT has summoned the minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema, junior MPs and the deaf community to share their views on the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2432 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3476 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 940 | 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 | 8919 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must not be used by the army to oust Mnangagwa
In this article my desire is to enlighten the public especially those that are not well connected to the corridors of power in Zimbabwe, what do I mean by the term corridors of power? It simply means ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 11:04hrs | 4029 | by Knowledge Hakata
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2745 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1460 | by Thandekile Moyo
Amending constitution unfair, undemocratic
To be frank, the late former president Robert Mugabe made so many errors of commission and omission during his 37-year rule.However, in my singular opinion he also omitted to groom a successor...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 253 | by Martin Stobart
Mnangagwa's govt must at least provide the basics
The dirty water phenomenon has final arrived in the great City of Kings and Queens. We all knew this as the trademark of Harare. The government and city fathers seem to be clueless about solving the w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 151 | by Lubani Nondo
Bulawayo water safe, says council report
A Bulawayo City Council report on the alleged contaminated Luveve water has revealed that tap water samples collected in the area tested satisfactory while those done on water from an open source in t...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 103 | 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 | 255 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
RBZ confirms mobile money ban but keeps platforms open for small transactions
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has suspended all money agents from mobile financial transactions but the general public can still continue to transact using the platforms.In a statement ye...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya suspends mobile money agents
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has suspended mobile money agents from facilitating mobile financial transactions and has placed restrictions on merchant transactions.This follows a pronouncement...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 19:51hrs | 3643 | by Staff reporter
RBZ clarifies phone based mobile money platforms position
Below is a statement released by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on the suspension of phone based mobile money platforms.On the Suspension of Monetary Transactions on Phone Based Mobile Money Pla...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:42hrs | 5091 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water problems littered with superstition and politics: Bajila
MDC Alliance activist Descent Bajila has bemoaned that the saddest issue about the Bulawayo Water Problem is that it is littered with too much superstition and too much politics but too little science...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:42hrs | 2564 | by Stephen Jakes
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1066 | by Charles Murindo
Technical glitch adds to Bulawayo water woes
BULAWAYO City Council has shut down water pumps supplying water from Ncema Dam to the Tuli Reservoir due to a technical fault, forcing prolonged water supply interruption in the city. The problem come...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's house built on sand
TYPICAL of the biblical foolish man who built his house on sand, the political winds seem to have come to blow the MDC-T house away, three months after its construction.Hardly three months aft...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 2134 | by Staff reporter
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