© BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said it’s planning to introduce a property insurance fund to cushion residents against fire outbreaks. [GoogleAd] In the latest council report, BCC`s financial director Kimpton Ndimande said that there was a sharp increase in property fires in the city, and that needed action by the city fathers. “Council should…
© HARARE has been put on high alert after fears of an impending cholera outbreak surfaced in Glen View high density suburb.Harare City Council health services director Prosper Chonzi said the city’s surveillance teams were on the ground assessing the situation in the cholera-prone area. [GoogleAd] The disease outbreak if confirmed would be the second…
© CHILDREN with disabilities in Zimbabwe need education on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) as they are often vulnerable to abuse due to lack of knowledge, an official has said. [GoogleAd] Deaf Zimbabwe Trust (DZT) director Barbra Nyangairi has complained that children with disabilities are time and again exposed to sexual violence but unfortunately…
© GOVERNMENT has increased the producer price of maize from RTGS$726 to RTGS$1 400 per metric tonne with immediate effect. [GoogleAd] Addressing a post-cabinet meeting in Harare yesterday, the minister of Information, Monica Mutsvangwa said the upward review of the producer price does not translate to increase in the price of mealie-meal. “Cabinet considered and…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday tweaked his political bureau by axing Zanu PF national commissar Engelbert Rugeje, pictured, and replacing him with a trusted lieutenant — Victor Matemadanda. [GoogleAd] The surprise changes also saw another of Mnangagwa’s allies, Douglas Mahiya, assuming the position of secretary — in charge of former liberation war fighters – while…
© DAUGHTER to the late MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai, Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java, has died. She was 36. [GoogleAd] The Glen View South legislator died at the Parirenyatwa Hospital from injuries sustained in an accident that took place near Kwekwe last month as they came from an MDC event in Bulawayo. She had been in hospital…
© A ZANU PF legislator added his voice yesterday to the call for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, saying the 40-year-old opposition politician is part of the solution to the myriad of challenges bedevilling the country. [GoogleAd] Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe Nembudziya Justice Mayor Wadyajena made the…
© POLICE here are worried about the increase in cases involving drivers of illegal pirate taxis who are either raping or murdering their clients. [GoogleAd] Assistant inspector Auxillia Sibanda of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)’s Victim Friendly Unit said they have received several reports from women who would have been raped after hiring illegal pirate…
© THE value of transaction processed through the National Payment System (NPS) have declined by 11,3 percent to $4,6 billion during the week ending May 24 from $5,1 billion recorded the previous week. [GoogleAd] In its weekly economic highlights, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said the decline was despite transactions processed through the Real…
© PUPURAI Togarepi is likely to retain the national chairmanship of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Collaborators Association (Ziliwaco). [GoogleAd] Togarepi, who doubles up as Zanu PF’s youth secretary, has been endorsed by Ziliwaco’s nine out of 10 provincial structures ahead of the association’s elective congress on August 24. “The decision (to hold the congress)…
