HARARE – Fifteen thousand first time home – seekers are set to benefit from Old Mutual’s housing developments across the country in the next five years. The insurance giant has set aside $62 million towards funding the initial phase of the project, where it is constructing 1 593 housing units in Budiriro. “We are funding…
HARARE – A 50-year-old Kuwadzana man was yesterday hauled before the courts for masquerading as a legal practitioner. Refiloe Chanaka, who is a clerk at Machaya and Associates Legal Practitioners, appeared before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei facing theft of trust property charges. He was remanded to January 7 on $100 bail. He is charged with…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo city council needs an estimated $500 million for a master plan to fix old and dilapidated water reticulation infrastructure that has become a major source of pollution in the city, Mayor Martin Moyo has said. Moyo told delegates at the launch of the Inclusive Business Forum held at Holiday Inn yesterday that…
HARARE – Food prices rose slightly in November after stagnating for months, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ ) said yesterday, amid declining disposable incomes. The marginal rise in prices last month was attributed to shop-owners marginally hiking prices. Rosemary Siyachitema, CCZ executive director, said the cost of living for a low income urban earner…
HARARE – A Harare man yesterday produced a $36 payslip after his wife demanded more than $200 in maintenance. Lilian Murabowa dragged Stephen Magwa to the Harare Civil Court claiming $250 for their nine-year-old child. Murabowa told magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti that she does not know what her husband does for a living and that she…
HARARE – A finance supervisor with Minerva Risk Advisors — a short term insurance company — reportedly forged supplier quotations and defrauded the company of more than $250 000. Magaso Masiiwa, 38, appeared before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei yesterday facing fraud charges. She was remanded to January 7 on $100 bail. Part of her bail…
BULAWAYO – A 17-year-old local high school boy is to appear before the magistrates’ courts on Friday to answer allegations of having sexual intercourse with his 15-year-old girlfriend from Eveline Girls High. The Form Four student of Park Road suburbs in Bulawayo is accused of being intimate with the Form Three minor. It is the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) would like to applaud the President’s call for transparency and accountability in the wildlife and mining sectors. The President made these calls on the 7th and 8th of November, 2013. Listening to the President make this call, it was as if he was singing from the Civil…
HARARE – Award-winning South African actor Vusi Kunene and Burkina Faso film director Idrissa Ouedraogo are star guests at this year’s edition of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival (ZIFF) which kicked off yesterday. The Burkinabe director won an award for his film Tilaï The Law at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, the Fipresci Award for…
HARARE – Wakatumwa singer Gift Amuli says recent claims that dancehall music has overtaken sungura music are out of touch with reality. The Zvishavane-born singer, who has just released a new album called Bhora Mugedhi, added that the fact that dancehall and other urban grooves genres are receiving a lot of air play on Zimbabwean …
