© RESIDENTS’ associations have held consultative meetings ahead of the Devolution Policy Conference set to be held soon, calling for total inclusion of special groups and greater freedoms and flexibility at a metropolitan level. [GoogleAd] They also demanded that councils work more effectively to improve public services in their areas. Devolution is the transfer of power…
© Government has assured adequate supply of contraceptives to alleviate the current shortages which have hit the country. [GoogleAd] Contraceptives such as jadel, depo and the secure pill have been in short supply in some parts of the country, leaving women with limited family planning options. Family health director in the Health and Child Care…
© FORMER vice president Phelekezela Mphoko’s criminal abuse of office trial failed to commence yesterday in Harare after he notified the court that he wants to be tried in Bulawayo where he resides. [GoogleAd] Mphoko, who assumed the VP post in 2014 and lost his job in November 2017 following a military takeover, is accused…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa to use force to contain the xenophobic violence that has engulfed Zimbabwe’s southern neighbour. [GoogleAd] Mnangagwa, who is in Cape Town in South Africa for the World Economic Forum on Africa which started yesterday, said this while addressing Zimbabweans living there during a…
© The Nigerian division of South African telecom operator MTN said yesterday it will shut all stores and service centres in the country until further notice after its facilities in three cities were attacked. [GoogleAd] The facilities were attacked in retaliation after days of riots in South Africa chiefly targeting foreign-owned, including Nigerian, businesses. “The…
© South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured, told officials and business leaders yesterday that he was committed to quelling attacks on foreigners that have threatened to cast a cloud over an economic forum aimed at boosting intra-African trade. [GoogleAd] Police have arrested almost 300 people and confirmed several deaths after riots in Johannesburg and the…
© Africans have come out to boycott South Africa after days of looting and violence targeting foreigners in which five people died. [GoogleAd] Nigerian singers and Zambia’s football team are among those in the boycott. South Africa’s Social Development minister told the BBC that rioters feared losing their jobs to foreigners. The country has become…
© THE Zifa board yesterday gave the authorities and fed up fans more reasons to have it kicked out from running local football after presiding over shambolic preparations for the Warriors’ tie against Somalia in Djibouti tomorrow. [GoogleAd] Local football has never been in this mess and former Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa should sleep at…
© ZIMBABWE cricket captain Hamilton Masakadza has announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket immediately after the forthcoming Triangular series in Bangladesh that will also feature Afghanistan. [GoogleAd] The 36-year-old said it was the right time to step aside to allow the future generation of cricketers to come through and take the troubled…
© THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has sought cancellation of a garnishee order issued against its bank accounts to facilitate processing of over $500 000 payments to former employee Lazarus Mhurushomana. [GoogleAd] Zifa’s Ecobank accounts were placed under judicial attachment by the sheriff on August 28 and removal of the money was due to be…
