© CHITUNGWIZA has started replacing malfunctioning convectional meters in a bid to reduce non-revenue water and to guarantee correct billing for residents. [GoogleAd] The town’s spokesperson, Lovemore Meya, said Chitungwiza intends to install 1 500 domestic water meters in Zengeza 4, Ward 13 and Ward 14. Meya said the town, which receives water once or…
© HARARE residents are producing 240 megalitres (Ml) of waste daily, which is far more than the city council can treat. [GoogleAd] The situation, according to the latest minutes of a meeting held by the council’s environmental management committee, has been compounded by breakdowns at Firle and Crowborough sewage treatment works. “The treatment plants, with…
© ZIMBABWE’s debt burden, estimated at around US$9 billion, has been a stumbling block to the country’s economic recovery initiatives and has impacted negatively on the country’s international credit rating, a development which has cost the economy much-needed foreign investment and capital flows. [GoogleAd] Further accumulation of arrears by the country implies further worsening of…
© His successor must address corruption and human rights abuses and engage with the millions who feel disenfranchised [Adz] Zimbabwe’s founding leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, has died. The widespread reaction to his death has revealed starkly the divided legacy he leaves behind. From one viewpoint he is Zimbabwe’s founding father, the man who led his…
© Almost as long as there has been an independent Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has presided over it. Thirty-seven years in charge. [GoogleAd] It wasn’t all bad. But it was mostly bad, and the history books that he loved to read will judge him harshly. He was, from the very beginning, an enigma: a jumble of…
© GERTRUDE Chirisa, 22, is a student at a local State university. She lives with her boyfriend Kudakwashe, who is also a student at the same institution, as husband and wife. [GoogleAd] They rent a room a few kilometres from campus which they share with their friends George and Mable, who are also boyfriend and…
© The Daily News on Sunday’s Tarisai Machakaire interviews Cossum Chiangwa, who has filed a Supreme Court appeal challenging a High Court ruling declaring his nemesis, Amon Madawo, the legitimate leader of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) Church. [GoogleAd] Below are excerpts of the interview. Q. Are you happy with how this matter…
© In Victoria Falls, elephants walk the streets of the town at night and warthogs and monkeys moonlight as car guards. [GoogleAd] From the moment you set foot in this amazing place you are constantly torn between taking in the natural beauty of the scenery and experiencing the huge amount of activities on offer. From…
© ZUDA from Zuid, the Dutch word for south, was what the rand coin was called in the 60s before the Ian Smith regime changed its currency from the pound (pondo) to the Rhodesian dollar to spite the British after unilaterally declaring independence in 1965. Then the rand coin, zuda, had no value. [GoogleAd] It was…
© WHILE teaching was the common career path of choice in the Chipfunde family, Rindai Chipfunde-Vava deviated from the family profession as she believed women had more to contribute than they were afforded. [GoogleAd] Driven by her passion for human rights and governance, Chipfunde-Vava defied the odds and chose to pursue Politics and Administration, which…
