HARARE – Government is on a collision course with the Harare City Council (HCC) after it failed to heed calls for it to hand back 15 houses illegally repossessed from homeowners in Mabvuku. The houses were allegedly taken from their bona fide owners and illicitly sold to council officials, members of the police and ordinary…
HARARE – Two orphaned brothers from London have designed flip-flops to help orphans around the world, devoting 10 percent of the footwear profits to making a difference in children’s lives. Rob and Paul Forkan lost both their parents in the 2004 Tsunami, where about 230 000 people were killed in 14 countries. The once-backpacker brothers…
HARARE – Nestle Zimbabwe says it will continuously invest in increasing its manufacturing capacity and introducing new products as part of efforts to rebuild the country’s economy. This comes as the Swiss-based food giant has invested close to $20 million in the refurbishment and upgrading of the cereals and Milo plants and introduction of new…
HARARE – Vumba’s pristine rainforest — a cradle to some of Zimbabwe’s unique flora and fauna — is under siege. Illegal settlements and poaching are threatening to leave its breath-taking mountains bare. Its Msasa woodlands and Montane forests among where the rare Star of Africa Oak stand are being broken and retreating further into the…
HARARE – Scenes of unpaid workers in agitated mood showing up in person to hold employers hostage have not yet become much of a common feature at cash-strapped firms. But simmering discontent might prompt hordes of rankled employees to snap hard on their employers’ heels demanding arrear salaries as happened in post-independence war America when…
HARARE – Recent reports on the increase of the number of unemployed youths is cause for concern and government should act quickly to rectify the situation and create more jobs. University and tertiary college graduates are increasingly taking up menial jobs, amid a sharp rise in the number of students graduating without any hope of…
HARARE – Zimbabwean banks are set to lose over $70 million in income in the nine months to December 2013 following a raft of reforms imposed by the Central Bank, according to the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (Baz). In January this year, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has slashed water tariffs, a development that relieves the overburdened ratepayers and possibly increases the local authority’s revenue collections. In its 2014 standstill budget totalling $370,2 million approved yesterday, HCC finance and development chairperson Allan Markham said the development was in response to Harare residents’ submissions during pre-budget consultations….
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday dismissed MDC chief elections officer Morgen Komichi’s appeal against conviction and 350 hours community service sentence. Komichi was ordered to perform 350 hours community service at Mabelreign Clinic after the courts found him guilty of fraud and contravening the Electoral Act. He appealed against the sentence. But magistrate Tendai…
HARARE – Few Robert Mugabe speeches over the past 10 years have failed to include some blazing rhetorical flourish against the West. “Shame, shame, shame to the United States of America. Shame, shame, shame to Britain and its allies,” he declared at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, so are…
