© THE Registrar-General’s office has pegged a site for a new registry office in the sprouting Cowdray Park suburb as part of a broader move to decentralise its services and ease pressure from the ever busy provincial registrar office. [GoogleAd] The new development will see such services as issuance of birth certificates, national identity documents,…
© HARARE North MDC MP Allan Markham has dragged Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, to the High Court challenging the government’s decision to give the State-run Grain Marketing Board (GMB) the sole monopoly to buy and sell maize. [GoogleAd] The government through Statutory Instrument 145 of 2019, recently declared maize a controlled product, banning individuals…
© CHINESE company that has been carrying renovations at the Morton Jaffray Waterworks says Harare water woes require all hands on the deck and adequate financing for the remaining work to be completed. [GoogleAd] Speaking to journalists during a tour at the plant, China Machinery and Engineering Company (CMEC) said residents need to stop polluting…
© RELENTLESS power cuts experienced across the country have hit hospitals hardest with patients left stranded and doctors failing to use medical equipment. [GoogleAd] This comes as doctors complained that patients in Zimbabwe’s state hospitals were also dying due to a lack of medicines and equipment, brought on by a cash crunch that has crippled…
© THE late Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java’s younger brother Vincent has won primary elections for an MDC ticket to contest in the Glen View South National Assembly by-elections set for September 7. [GoogleAd] Tsvangirai polled 148 votes to beat seven others who were challenging him for the position. Vincent’s sister died after a horrific accident on her…
© Energy minister Fortune Chasi will next week travel to South Africa in a bid to convince that country’s power utility Eskom to resume exporting 350 megawatts of electricity to Zimbabwe following massive load-shedding bedevilling the country. [GoogleAd] Eskom flatly refused to increase electricity output to Zimbabwe despite the visit by high-powered delegation from Zesa…
© Zimbabwean ambassadors are having to hitch hike to work, while the state of their residential houses and offices are in deplorable state, Parliament has been told. [GoogleAd] This was disclosed by Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, while giving oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Foreign Affairs chaired by Makonde National Assembly MP…
© CHAKARI Constituency Member of Parliament Andrew Nkani yesterday successfully applied for the cancellation of a warrant of arrest that was issued against him after he absconded court on Monday. [GoogleAd] Nkani, who is representing Forward Housing Cooperative allegedly defrauded Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Housing Cooperative of $80 000, in a botched stand…
© BULAWAYO residents have continued to pile pressure on the council demanding that the councillors step down and pave way for a commission. [GoogleAd] The residents accuse the latest crop of councillors of being corrupt and ignorant to the service delivery issues. Last week, the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (Bupra) hosted a tension-filled gathering where…
© MDC vice president Welshman Ncube has reacted to the push by residents and pressure groups to have a government-appointed commission to run the city describing it as a “misguided grave mistake.” [GoogleAd] Ncube likened the push to the 2017 ‘‘unconstitutional’’ overthrow of former President Robert Mugabe. “We never learn. Less than two years ago…
