© HARARE City Council is owed close to $1 billion by the government, residents and businesses, a debt that is hindering its capacity to provide adequate service delivery. Speaking during the State of the City address yesterday, Mayor Herbert Gomba said the council continued to be ham-strung by the effects of a huge debtors’ book…
© BULAWAYO residents fear an outbreak of water- borne diseases if the local authority fails to address the erratic supplies of water being experienced in most parts of the city. Over the weekend, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), without warning, shut down water supplies to nearly 50 suburbs supplied by the Magwegwe, Tuli and Criterion…
THE CLIMATE change crisis that has hit south- ern Africa is having devastating consequences in Zimbabwe as hunger stalks families, while drought takes its toll on livestock. In August, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the drought a national disaster. Apart from the drought, the nation has in recent years endured destruction by cyclones, pests and disease….
EDITOR — Last Tuesday, I travelled along the Harare- Bulawayo highway and realised that government should urgently do something about stray livestock. These animals are causing a lot of accidents on the road. I witnessed a number of accidents involving stray livestock and would like to call upon the government to do something before more…
EDITOR — The saying that goes, “Evil only flourishes when good men do nothing,” becomes crystal clear when looking the utter mess that Zanu PF has led Zimbabwe into. One thing that has become patently and painfully clear to me is a lesson from history: the peaceful masses are irrelevant. [GoogleAd] The buck stops at…
© FINANCE and Economic Devel- opment minister Mthuli Ncube has said the two percent intermediated money transfer tax on transactions above $10 will continue even after austerity measures come to an end in December. Ncube told a post-cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday that despite that the austerity measures were coming to an end, the…
© THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) says it failed to meets its generation target by 38 percent in the third quarter due to low water levels in Kariba Dam and frequent breakdowns at Hwange thermal power station. The Zesa Holdings unit said it generated 1 506,44 gigawatts per hour (GWh) against 2 365,61 GWh in…
© STANDARD Bank Group (Standard Bank), Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe’s parent company, says it is looking to use new digital technologies to boost agricultural yields in African countries. The regional lender said with almost all available arable land in the Americas, Europe and Asia already productively farmed using the most developed agricultural techniques, Africa presents a…
© THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has begun the search for a substantive chief executive to steer the organisation’s long-term strategies. Zinara, which was established in 2001 through an Act of Parliament, is responsible for the management, maintenance and development of the country’s national road network. [GoogleAd] However, the parastatal has failed to live…
© ZIMBABWE Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC)’s electricity pre-paid vending system has been down since the weekend, leaving many consumers stranded. Several customers were failing to purchase pre- paid electricity tokens on electronic platforms while those who managed to do so did not receive vouchers. [GoogleAd] ZETDC, a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings (Zesa), said…
