HARARE – Providing free health care to patients will only cripple the already cash-strapped councils that often run out of drugs due to limited funding and are behind on paying their workers, local authorities have claimed. According to a report titled “Cities in Distress Municipal Budgeting and Financial Management Survey”, councils are bleeding their coffers…
HARARE – As Harare City Council draws towards its budget consultation meetings for formulation of the 2019 budget, residents are of the opinion that the notification time given by the City Fathers is too short. In interviews conducted during a residents’ meeting this week, residents argued that people were being informed of ward meetings on…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday threw out a challenge by MDC Alliance official Tendai Biti who was contesting the authority of Zimbabwean courts to prosecute him arguing he was unconstitutionally removed from Zambia where he was seeking asylum. Magistrate Francis Mapfumo concurred with the State that Biti was arrested on Zimbabwean soil and ruled…
HARARE – The State has set November 19 and 29 as trial dates for former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi who is facing a slew of corruption charges. Mzembi appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa represented by Job Sikhala yesterday. His trial on allegations of misappropriating funds meant for the 2013 United Nations World Tourism Organisation…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum is calling on government to consider compensating families of victims of forced disappearances. This comes as Zimbabweans joined the rest of the world in commemorating the United Nations International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, dedicated to raising awareness that enforced disappearance is a crime. The…
HARARE – A nine-member committee has been tasked by Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to organise a State burial for former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan on September 13. A statement signed by the director of communications at the presidency, Eugene Arhin, said that Ambassador Annan Cato would chair the committee that has Kojo…
HARARE – United Family International Church (UFIC) founder Emmanuel Makandiwa has just celebrated 10 years of empowering the nation through the word, prophecy, healing and counselling the afflicted. In a statement on his Facebook page, the 40-year-old preacher and his wife Ruth paid tribute to their congregants, volunteers, pastors and international visitors who attended UFIC’s…
HARARE – The change in government in Zimbabwe is inspiring hope among some white farmers, nearly two decades after the start of the sometimes-violent land reform programme, a news report says. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has ruled out reversing land reform, but has vowed to put an end to land invasions and to give white…
HARARE – Master of ceremonies Gift Nyazana aka Mc Ndombele has rebranded to Flame Ndombele. The popular MC who joined the music industry early this year will re-launch his debut album Dr Tawanda Meets Flame Ndombele tonight at Red Cafe in the capital. The album was first launched on April 26 at Holly’s Hotel in…
HARARE – Four people are set to receive $5 000 at the Metamorphosis Conference being held this Saturday by the Lotus Lady Organisation. The event, which will include live performances and supported by a full live band, and speeches by wold renowned life coaches and mentors, is said by the organisers to be a life-changing…
