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Parly probes forests plunder

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HARARE – The parliamentary portfolio committee on Environment, Water and Climate has set out to investigate the plunder of commercial timber and protected indigenous forests following a massive public outcry from environmentalists and the timber industry. Settlers and illegal miners have besieged commercial timber forests in Chimanimani and some gazetted natural forests such as Mapfungautsi…

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Pakistan national up for fraud

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HARARE – The State has intensified investigations in a fraud case involving a Pakistan businessman, Majid Khan, 35, who reportedly duped his partner $131 000 in a botched sports equipment deal. Khan, who is based in Sialkot City, Pakistan appeared before magistrate Josephine Sande and was on Thursday remanded to October 11 after prosecutor Linda…

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Zanu PF MPs slam govt over land barons

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HARARE – Government is sponsoring cartels that are in the business of grabbing farms whose owners would have died and selling them for a fee, Parliament heard this week. Zanu PF legislators complained in the National Assembly during Wednesday’s question without notice session that the cartels have all but taken over Douglas Mombeshora’s ministry of…

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‘Chinamasa must be arrested’

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HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa is under pressure to deal with the current economic crisis, as legislators from both the Zanu PF and opposition MDC called for his arrest, accusing him of promoting the foreign currency parallel market. Speaking in the National Assembly after Chinamasa’s ministerial statement, MDC MP for Warren Park Elias Mudzuri…

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‘Harare council, ZRP should curb touting’

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HARARE – Harare residents’ pressure groups have slammed authorities for failing to deal with touting after the death of a passenger on Tuesday morning. Matthias Gore of Glen Norah C died after he was savagely manhandled by touts at RoadPort after he had refused to board a vehicle to Mutare. Harare Residents Trust (HRT) said…

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Red Cross rescues farm workers

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HARARE – Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) this week responded to a fire disaster which left 25 families homeless and destitute at Stapleford Farm, 2km along the Chinhoyi highway. The Red Cross response follows a call by the department of Civil Protection (CPU) for disaster relief. The humanitarian player availed non-food relief items among them…

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Nssa raises RTG stake to 60pc

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HARARE – First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL) yesterday announced that it had sold its shareholding in hotel concern, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG), to its major shareholder, the National Social Security Authority (Nssa). The deal will give the compulsory pensions group absolute control in the hotel operations, which has been ravaged by shareholder bickering for many…

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Boost for local property developers

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HARARE – Government will incentivise the country’s property developers willing to upgrade and set up new structures for tertiary institutions. Finance and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa said this last week at the ground-breaking ceremony for a student complex at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo. [GoogleAd] “Our State universities and other…

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Controversy over community radio stations

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HARARE – Zimbabwe currently has no bona fide licensed community radio stations despite the government’s claims to the contrary, a local advocacy group has claimed. Two years ago, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) issued community radio licences to eight stations in what the Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (Zacras) has described as a…

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Songbirds to hold free concert

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HARARE – Tonight, rhumba artiste Lady Storm and Wanai will share the stage with four female artistes at a free concert set for Pagango Truck Inn, located 26 kilometres on the Harare-Masvingo highway. The show will also feature Tendai Chimombe, Sasha, Ammi Jamanda and Sarah Dee. Lady Storm, who is better known as Eriza, has…

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