HARARE – Medical Air Rescue Services (Mars) Zimbabwe (Private) Limited is scouting for an equity partner to take up 60 percent of its shares. The air and road rescue service was placed under voluntary judicial management in February 2013 in terms of the High Court Order HC 819/13, granted in Harare. Before being placed under…
HARARE – Consumers of electricity can now buy tokens from the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) for as little as $5 via the EcoCash platform. In a statement, ZETDC said it will constantly review the situation in the hope that in future the EcoCash platform would be able to transact at a minimum…
HARARE – It was business as usual for street vendors in Harare’s central business district (CBD) by noon yesterday, despite a ban by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) who are fearful of cholera spreading. The Harare City Council (HCC) took a relaxed stance, noting that it was waiting for the vendors to move voluntarily. HCC…
HARARE – Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede has opposed veteran journalist Violet Gonda’s application seeking to overturn government’s decision barring her from acquiring a passport. Last week, the veteran journalist filed an urgent chamber application after Mudede knocked back her application for the application as her name appeared on the department’s backlist. Through her lawyer, Denford…
HARARE – For many years, Zimbabwe has grappled with the phenomenon of land barons, who have illegally possessed State, council and private land before selling it to unsuspecting home seekers. Due to a high demand for homes, Zimbabweans are easily falling prey to these unscrupulous and politically-connected land barons. However, the tragedy is that a…
HARARE – Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers Union of Zimbabwe (Paawuz) says since the removal of Robert Mugabe it has recovered over $300 000 owed to farm workers. Paawuz secretary-general Raymond Sixpence said most of this money was recovered after protracted negotiations with farm owners with most of the cases being resolved by the…
HARARE – At least 25 people have died in Harare from cholera so far with nearly 4 000 people having been attended to at the Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital (BRIDH) by yesterday. According to Harare City Council (HCC) acting director of health Clemence Duri, the deaths were recorded at the hospital. Harare was declared…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration should swallow its pride and request international assistance to combat the spread of a cholera epidemic that has so far claimed over 25 lives, Amnesty International (AI) has said. The global rights group described as “unacceptable” a situation where people are still dying from preventable diseases such as cholera…
HARARE – Red Cross has deployed volunteers to support communities affected by the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed 25 lives. There are fears that the outbreak might spread across the country as it started in an urban area with high density and high population mobility. Sporadic cases have already been reported in Midlands,…
HARARE – A Mutasa teenager has been arrested for the gruesome murder of a mother and her child by bludgeoning with a log. The baby was strapped on her mother’s back. Clayton Dekaurendo, 18, of Rori Village under Chief Mutasa appeared before Mutasa magistrate Annie Ndiraya on Monday over the murder of his fellow villagers….
