September 2019

© Parliament has increased MPs’ Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocations from $80 000 to $175 238. [GoogleAd] The increase was announced by Speaker Jacob Mudenda during yesterday’s National Assembly sitting. The fund was first introduced by former Finance minister Tendai Biti in 2010. A year after it was unveiled, it collapsed due to budgetary constraints…

© WAR VETERANS have poured scorn on South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema after he accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government of tormenting former president Robert Mugabe until he died.  [GoogleAd] Malema, who was in the country on Monday to pay his last respects to Mugabe who died at the age of…

© PARLIAMENT has threatened to withdraw diplomatic passports from opposition legislators in a bid to dissuade them from speaking ill of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the nation at large when they are outside the country. [GoogleAd] The threat was made by Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday after the Zanu PF MP for…

© HARARE City Council has secured water treatment chemicals for the next seven days from their supplier after shutting down Morton Jaffray (MJ) water treatment works on Monday. [GoogleAd] At a press conference yesterday, acting mayor Enock Mupamawonde, said the city will start receiving delivery of the chemicals this evening. Government allocated the capital city…

© The government must declare a state of emergency due to water shortages in most regions of the country amid the worst drought in years and make funds available to alleviate a crisis that has affected families and the agricultural sector, pressure groups have said.  [GoogleAd] The call was made at a policy dialogue hosted…

© ZESA Holdings requires more than US$100 million to replace around 2 000 transformers that have been vandalised in the past few years, the power utility’s acting managing director Milton Munodawafa has said. [GoogleAd] Last year alone, Zesa lost transformers worth about $20 million and hundreds of copper cable rods to theft and vandalism, prompting…

© THE BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) and residents are set to clash after the latter rejected the proposed tariff increase by the city fathers, vowing to block the move. [GoogleAd] On Monday, the city fathers proposed a 2019 $507 million second supplementary budget which amounts to 300 percent as well as $2,8 billion budget for…

© AMID howls of protests from the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, Zanu PF has credited its emphatic poll victory in the Zaka East by-election to a correction of its past mistakes and a healthy relationship with the electorate. [GoogleAd] This comes as the MDC, whose candidate Derrick Charamba polled a miserly 1 518 votes against Zanu…