HARARE – Steward Bank yesterday launched a National Cholera Crisis Fund targeted at raising $2 million to contain the cholera outbreak. Speaking at the launch yesterday, the bank’s CEO Lance Mambondiani, said Steward Bank, Econet Wireless and Higher Life Foundation have partnered to raise funds from the corporate sector, charity organisations and individual well-wishers in…
HARARE – High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday ordered the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to stop all construction work on the campus’ wetland without an environmental impact assessment certificate. In an interdict filed by the Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT), UZ had begun to construct a service station and shopping complex on the wetland near…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is set to conduct a rummage sale auction of forfeited and uncleared motor vehicles and goods at Forbes Border Post, Mt Selinda and Mutare Customs House next Wednesday. This comes a few months after the authority’s Commissioner-General, Faith Mazani, instructed auctioneers to hold rummage sales for uncleared goods currently…
HARARE – The Registrar-General’s department says it will this month host churches to discuss the newly-gazetted statutory instrument on marriages. The conference will be held on September 27, 2018 at Tobacco Hall, Harare Show Grounds at 10am. “The Registrar-General’s department would like to advise all heads of church denominations that the department will be hosting…
HARARE – New Sport, Arts, Recreation minister and Olympic gold medallist Kirsty Coventry will make her maiden appearance as a Cabinet minister at a gospel music festival at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) tonight. The interdenominational gospel music event — Call To Worship, is a praise and worship extravaganza held every year, which draws…
HARARE – Wholesaler Mahomed Mussa (MM) has described as “malicious and a hoax” statements that it had emptied its retail shelves in Harare, officials said yesterday. MM Wholesalers is one of the leading wholesale suppliers of a wide range of products located in Harare. This comes on the back of a deepening foreign currency shortage…
HARARE – The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) yesterday donated 30 tonnes of assorted food stuffs to people affected by cholera. The donation consisted 10 tonnes of mealie-meal, five tonnes of rice and 5 000 loaves of bread. The food stuffs were collected from Blue Ribbon, National Foods, Manyame Milling, Nulenty and Alpha Grain….
HARARE – Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday underwent what sources said had been a “successful” emergency surgery at a Harare hospital for a kidney-related ailment, the Daily News can report. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday swore in the team which will investigate the post-elections violence which resulted in the death of at least six people, after the army used live ammunition to break ugly demonstrations that had erupted in Harare on August 1 this year. This comes as a woman who lost her brother…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen “Mudha” Ncube as the country’s new State Security minister. He also appointed new and reassigned permanent secretaries. In so doing, Mnangagwa completed the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle, after systematically effecting root and branch…
