© ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (Zesn) is encouraging women to participate as candidates in elections and calls on political parties to deliberately support and field more female candidates. [GoogleAd] This comes after the close of the Nomination Courts for by-elections to fill the National Assembly seats for Glen View South and Mangwe constituencies only saw…
© A REPORT by the Harare City Council (HCC) health department showed that sampled wells in Glen View are all contaminated. [GoogleAd] The report which was presented to council by health services director Prosper Chonzi revealed that while there was no cholera outbreak; drivers of the disease were rampant. HCC has been struggling with waterborne…
© FEMALE parliamentarians will tomorrow deliberate on the Marriage Bill that has drawn national attention with a view to unpacking it before it is formally introduced in the National Assembly. [GoogleAd] Last Wednesday, MDC MPs blocked attempts by the leader of government business in Parliament, Ziyambi Ziyambi, to introduce the Bill arguing for members of…
© GOVERNMENT should not make exemptions to enforcing rules and policies if it is to have sound financial management of its local authorities, a German commentator has said. [GoogleAd] At a workshop convened by Harare City Council and its German partners GIZ, the latter’s programme manager Stephan Lidsba said it was important to be objective…
© ZIMBABWE is sitting on a time bomb, hence an urgent need by all stakeholders to come together and solve the water shortages that have hit most towns and cities. [GoogleAd] Resident pressure groups have already raised alarm warning that it is only a matter of time before cholera and typhoid outbreaks erupt. Most local…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is coming under growing pressure to jettison Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira — who appeared in court yesterday facing a litany of charges relating to alleged looting of funds at the National Social Security (Nssa). Mupfumira, 68, was arrested early on Thursday morning by officers from the newly-reconstituted Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), over…
© OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa will today visit the City of Kings in a bid to bring sanity to the troubled MDC-run local council which is riven by ugly infighting — amid damaging accusations of corruption and tribalism. This comes as irate residents have called on the government to install a commission to run the…
© THE last time an English Premier League team paid millions of pounds for a Zimbabwean footballer to come to England was in 2006 when Portsmouth signed Benjani Mwaruwari from Ligue 1 side Auxerre. On January 5 of that year, the then Pompey manager Harry Radnkapp signed off on Benjani’s £4,1 million move from East-Central…
© A ZUVA Petroleum fuel attendant appeared in court yesterday charged with stealing more than $159 000 from unsuspecting clients. Wellington Doroba, 25, would allegedly photograph the clients’ bank cards, clone them before stealing the funds. Doroba appeared before Harare magistrate Barbra Mateko charged with four counts of unauthorised use or possession of credit cards….
© A WHISTLE-BLOWER has dragged the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to the High Court demanding over $200 000 from the authority for providing a tip-off on a $2 million tax evasion scam. In the application in which he cited Zimra commissioner general Faith Mazani and Zimra as first and second respondents respectively, Geoffrey Masunda said…
