HARARE – The deputy head of one of the country’s most sought-after top private schools, St John’s College in Harare, has ignited a perfect storm in a society well-known for its homophobic tendencies after he publicly revealed to students that he is gay. The elite institution comprises two all-boys wings — St John’s Preparatory School…
HARARE – Legislators from both Zanu PF and the MDC have expressed anger at the government’s decision to suspend the purchase of new vehicles for them — with the money budgeted for that now earmarked to fight the deadly cholera outbreak which has claimed dozens of lives and left thousands of people requiring treatment. This…
HARARE – The Eunice Sandi Moyo-led National Patriotic Front yesterday dispelled claims by a rival faction of NPF led by retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri that the party has been disbanded because it had outlived its purpose. Jealousy Mawarire, the national spokesperson of the Sandi-Moyo faction, said Mutinhiri is neither the president nor the spokesperson…
HARARE – Suspended Harare City Council (HCC) directors will know their fate once their cases have been concluded by the Labour Court. Human resources committee chairperson Jacob Mafume told the Daily News the city would have to work with people in acting roles for those positions. Last December, HCC suspended chamber secretary Josephine Ncube, director…
HARARE – Harare City Council’s new town clerk Hosea Chisango must push the service delivery agenda ahead of trivial issues, residents said yesterday. Chisango who has been the acting town clerk since December last year, replaces Tendai Mahachi, who left town house in 2014. Before Chisango took over the post on an acting basis, chamber…
HARARE – Opposition parties have slammed government for deploying disproportionate force to drive out vendors from the streets of Harare. In the wake of the declaration of a state of emergency after a cholera outbreak in the capital that has so far killed over 30 people, government invoked the Public Health Act, banning all public…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa’s MDC is strengthening measures to enforce gender parity in the party’s leadership rings, as evidenced recently in Victoria Falls where the elected mayor stepped down to pave way for a female contestant. Chamisa ordered Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dlamini to step down and make way for Margaret Varley, whose nomination had…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) said they will deploy water bowsers and tanks to parts of the city which are facing water cuts this weekend. Harare mayor Herbert Gomba said they are doing this to avert the spread of cholera. “I have directed that they must make sure that water should be available this…
HARARE – Combined Mvurwi Residents Association (Comra) has engaged the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) over water disconnections. A statement by the residents’ pressure group chairperson Emmanuel Nkambala, noted that water disconnections were not advisable in a period when the country is battling a serious cholera epidemic that has already claimed at least 31 lives…
HARARE – Students living with hearing impairments are seeking a public education more tailored to their needs. The Deaf Zimbabwe Trust (DZT) said public schools must offer deaf students a special educational programme sufficiently ambitious to ensure they make progress. DZT is advocating for the operationalisation of the language rights in the Constitution, noting with…
