HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is seeking to amend its traffic by-laws to include sections on issuance of parking tickets and fines. According to environmental management committee minutes, the by-law did not have any provision on offences and penalties making it difficult to charge offenders. The new amendments would work together with the amended…
HARARE – Private properties with billboards facing public roads will soon be paying advertising levies to Harare City Council (HCC). HCC’s director of works Zvenyika Chawatama said a full council resolved that levies be collected from all buildings in the Central Business District (CBD) and environs displaying murals of all types and sizes. Council also…
HARARE – As we report elsewhere in this issue, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has withdrawn his court challenge against Thokozani Khupe over the use of the MDC name, symbols and logos. Had this occurred at another time, which is not towards elections, Chamisa’s decision would have been sweet music to the ears of…
HARARE – During deposed president Robert Mugabe’s time, government was notorious of playing a blame game, coupled with focusing on symptoms rather than dealing with the root cause of a problem. This perpetuated untold suffering of the vulnerable ordinary masses. Today — under the new dispensation led by Mugabe’s successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa — Zimbabweans…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sent letters to the leaders of NATO allies, including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada, demanding that they increase their defense spending and threatening to alter the US global military presence if they do not, according to a report in the New York Times on Monday. The letters were sent last…
JOHANNESBURG – A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge. The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident. Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown “no form of life”, South Africa’s TimesLive website reports….
HARARE – In an interesting turn of events, and as concerns grow over the security of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, war veterans are putting pressure on Vice President Constantino Chiwenga — who is in charge of the country’s security cluster — to do more to protect both VIPs and ordinary Zimbabweans. [Adz]
HARARE – Waddilove High School arrived at Friday’s Copa Coca-Cola provincial finals with odds heavily staked against the Mashonaland East-based side who were participating at that level for the first time in the tournament and school’s history. In the Copa’s 30-year history since its launch in the country, Waddilove could only go as far as…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Cricket chairperson Wilson Manase has returned to cricket albeit in an unfamiliar position as he fights in suspended ZC board member Enock Ikope’s corner after he was provisionally suspended by ICC on corruption charges. Manase took over as chairperson after the retirement of long-serving Peter Chingoka in July 2014 but his…
HARARE – When Takanyi Garanganga’s father, Brad, thought of the journey he has travelled thus far in trying to take his son to the top, he becomes extremely emotional. His wish was to see Takanyi playing in the Grand Slams one day. And he appeared on course after Brad laid all the groundwork by putting…
