HARARE – Harare City Council is engaging the Zimbabwe Republic Police to boot out Zanu PF youths who have invaded its markets and are illegally collecting rentals. According to environmental committee minutes: “There is need for council to carry out enforcement on all illegal markets starting from the Central Business District moving to all other…
HARARE – Job Sikhala has declared interest in the Zengeza West National Assembly seat under the MDC Alliance ticket. The recruitment secretary for the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance said he decided to contest after a wave self-renewal and regeneration of the MDC after the sad loss of Morgan Tsvangirai. “The emergence of …Chamisa as the…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF stalwarts Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo have withdrawn a $5 million defamation suit against their former boss and ally Joice Mujuru, who is now leading the National People’s Party (NPP). The duo, last year filed a lawsuit accusing the former vice president of claiming they demanded sex from her. “Take…
HARARE – Parliamentarians yesterday lamented the arrest of only 62 corrupt members of the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) over the past five years, saying the figure was too small given the pervasive graft dogging the parastatal. VID director Johannes Pedzapasi, who appeared before the Transport and Infrastructural Development Committee together with his colleague Jonathan Mberikunashe,…
HARARE – APEX Council, the umbrella body for civil servants’ unions, has said government has come up with a new national command housing scheme to be launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa soon. This comes as government has launched numerous command projects in various sectors — agriculture, fishery and forestry. Cecilia Alexander, who was recently re-elected…
HARARE – Zimta president Richard Gundane has said senior officials in his organisation owe the positions they hold to women. Gundane, who officially opened the belated International Women’s Day (IWD) celebrations hosted by Zimta on Saturday said women, by virtue of being the majority, have the power to make or break leaders. Women constitute 52…
HARARE – CHIVI councillors have built more than 70 classroom blocks throughout the district in a bid to break the cycle of poverty. The projects — conceived under the 129-page government’s economic blueprint ZimAsset which details a five-year government plan stretching to 2018 for the economy — and spearheaded by the Killer Zivhu-led Chivi Rural…
HARARE – The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has dispatched an advance team to assess Zimbabwe’s state of preparedness for the forthcoming general elections. The team, which is headed by chairperson of the regional organisation’s Electoral Advisory Council (Seac) chairperson Leshele Thohlane, will spent seven days in the country interacting with electoral stakeholders, including political…
HARARE – Pandhari Lodge (Private) Limited, an accommodation and conference facility centre in Harare, has been dragged to the High Court for allegedly failing to repay a $7 million debt to the Zimbabwe Asset Management Corporation (Private) Limited (Zamco). According to the court papers, the applicant is Zamco, while Pandhari Lodge together with Keter Trading…
HARARE – A Police Tribunal in Harare yesterday sentenced a police officer to 10 days in prison for insulting former president Robert Mugabe, a decision likely to fuel criticism that authorities are undermining democracy and stifling free speech. The court convicted Thompson Joseph Mloyie, a sergeant, for using abusive language against the former president after…
