HARARE – The National Building Society (NBS) has opened a branch at Harare’s Social Security Centre to exclusively serve pensioners during pay-out days. To be opened for five days each month, the centre is already proving to be a novel intervention as it allows the elderly to be served without having to worry about being…
HARARE – Farmers have so far delivered 214 000 tonnes of maize to the state granary since harvesting started in April. Deputy Agriculture minister, Davison Marapira, said the Grain Marketing Board shall be paying farmers two weeks after delivering their crop. In the past, the parastatal struggled to pay for maize delivered to its depots….
HARARE – Chiefs are today set to elect the president and deputy president of the National Council of Chiefs (NCC). According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), 35 chiefs have already been elected into NCC in accordance with the Traditional Leaders Act. Today, all chiefs will again meet to elect president of NCC and his/her…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been accused of attempting to manipulate a forum of presidential candidates that meets weekly to dismiss Nelson Chamisa’s demands for administrative electoral reforms. This comes after it emerged that the under pressure Zec has now said through acting chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana it is prepared to…
HARARE – Two cops appeared in court yesterday facing charges of demanding a R30 000 bribe to free a suspected thief. Tonderai Mumanikidzwa, 41, and Etwell Ngara, 45, denied allegations of criminal abuse of duty as public officers when they appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo. The duo is attached to Criminal Investigations Department, Southerton…
HARARE – Two Chinese nationals facing charges of shooting the son of a Zanu PF Member of Parliament in a suspected case of mistaken identity have applied for discharge at the close of the State case arguing the essential elements of attempted murder had not been proven. Son of Zanu PF MP for Hurungwe West…
HARARE – MDC Alliance Goromonzi West candidate Luke Tamborinyoka has been charged again for allegedly defacing a rival’s political campaign posters. Tamborinyoka, who is already on remand in another court over the same allegations, was hauled before magistrate Francis Mapfumo with the State now claiming that he also acted independently on the day in question….
HARARE – An aspiring MDC Alliance council candidate has been sucked in an alleged illegal sale of repossessed housing stands in Gwanda without council approval, according to a audit report. Ward 3 aspiring candidate Tyson Moyo is already being probed by the Gwanda local authority in connection with illegal sale of three stands in the…
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioner Qhubani Moyo has defended the national elections body’s chief elections officer, Utoile Silaigwana, over the statement he issued last week claiming there was no postal voting taking place at Ross Camp in Bulawayo. Silaigwana later reversed his statement and said the police who will be on duty on…
BULAWAYO – A total of 23 candidates will be vying for the top post in Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections due in less than two weeks’ time and of these only two hail from the second largest city, Bulawayo. While several opposition party presidents are based in this part of the country, most of them have chickened…
