March 2019

HARARE – Harare City Council is now under pressure to rehabilitate its boreholes as the city starts instituting a strict water rationing regime that should see residents receiving water at least twice a week. [GoogleAd] According to the new water rationing schedule for March, only Mbare, Highfield, Sunnigdale, Mufakose, Graniteside, Willowvale, Ardbennie, Southerton Industrial area and the…

HARARE – The new measures recently unveiled by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya have been credited with stabilising prices — with youthful Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena — becoming the latest businessman to back them to succeed. [GoogleAd] This comes as manufacturers have reported significant improvement in sourcing their raw materials following the restoration…

BULAWAYO – Tax authorities in South Africa have seized a crematorium machine from Japan headed for Bulawayo in a payment dispute, according to the city council.  [GoogleAd] The machine is used in the disposal of a dead person’s body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony.  The imported crematorium was supposed to complement…

HARARE – A Harare magistrate reserved ruling yesterday on a request to have former Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira’s graft case referred to the Constitutional Court (Con-Court). This was after Mandiwanzira’s lawyer Thembinkosi Magwaliba advised the court that an urgent chamber application had been set down for a hearing in the High Court which had a bearing on…

MUTARE – The late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s estate executors have taken over a $50 000 lawsuit in the High Court in which a Harare man is demanding that principal amount from the late former trade unionist. [GoogleAd] The man is claiming $50 000 for the role he claimed he played in stitching up a coalition deal…

BULAWAYO – The trial of five minors arrested together with a gang of looters during the January fuel price hike riots in Bulawayo’s Emakhandeni suburb failed to kick off again yesterday. [GoogleAd] The minors aged between six and 13 years appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza facing theft charges. Caroline Matanga, representing the State, postponed the…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hosted leaders of a variety of major Zimbabwean corporations, entrepreneurs, business executives and intellectuals who have joined his administration’s advisory board on economic issues. The panel held its first meeting yesterday afternoon at the State House complex.  [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa and his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi attended the session,…