September 2019

©  SMALL-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) have called from an exemption from load shedding to keep their businesses afloat. SMEs, which are a major source of employment and significant domestic earnings, contribute up to 40 percent of the country’s total gross domestic product (GDP). [GoogleAd] Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Zimbabwe (SMEAZ) chairperson Farai Mutambanengwe said…

© THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has refuted claims that it is against opposition parties holding demonstrations, amid criticism by local and international human rights organisations over the recent ban of MDC-led demonstrations countrywide and a crackdown on protesters. [GoogleAd] Addressing peace keeping police officers during a briefing and debriefing ceremony for South Sudan and Darfur…

©  HARARE’S water situation has plunged to desperate levels as some suburbs are only receiving water for less than half the day. Addressing delegates at a water workshop organised by the Combined Harare Residents Association (Chra) recently, Harare City Council water distribution manager Tapiwa Kunyadini said the situation was now dire. Kunyadini told delegates the…

©  ZANU PF Senator Angeline Tongogara has raised a motion in parliament imploring the government to draft laws that prescribe stiffer penalties for child marriage offenders. Tongogara said the lack of urgency on the part of government to put in place the necessary laws to curb child marriages was resulting in many juveniles entering into…

©  FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, telling the Zanu PF leader to “go to hell” at the late ex-Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s memorial ceremony organised by South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Soweto, Johannesburg. [GoogleAd] Addressing hundreds who thronged Orlando Community Hall, Kasukuwere said…

©  FORMER Zanu PF Marondera Central legislator Lawrence Katsiru and Mutare businessman Lazarus Mungwari risk being kicked out of National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) properties that they are illegally occupying after breaching lease agreements. NRZ has cited Katsiru and Mungwari in separate applications seeking eviction orders and payment of rental arrears. [GoogleAd] NRZ wants confirmation…

© THE Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa) is still under scrutiny in the office of the Attorney General (AG), Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. Nearly four weeks after it was passed by Parliament, Ziyambi told the Daily News the AG’s office wants to make sure the Act has no flaws. [GoogleAd] “The office…

©  Hamilton Property Holdings (Pvt) Ltd (Hamilton) has sought eviction orders against two Harare men who are refusing to vacate houses they sold to the property behemoth. Hamilton, owned by businessman Frank Buyanga, has cited Wine Gombingo, Happson Hanyani and the registrar of deeds in summons filed separately against the duo at the High Court….