March 2020

THE State was yesterday given the green light to arrange their travel to Twitter headquarters in Northern Ireland for extra-territorial investigations into MDC secretary-general Chalton Hwende’s case. Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa made the ruling granting an application for postponement by prosecutor Lancelot Mutsokoti, who had indicated that the State wanted to ascertain if Hwende owns…

THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) executive secretary, Stergomena Lawrence Tax, pictured, has expressed concern over the region’s growing levels of unemployment and climate change-induced effects, saying that they pose a threat to the peace and security of the region. Tax revealed this following a courtesy call on President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the State House…

MANICALAND Anglican Church Diocese has embarked on a programme aimed at reducing trauma in students and survivors of Cyclone Idai which hit the province last year. Most communities ravaged by Cyclone Idai recently received large amounts of rainfall, evoking bad memories for survivors some of whom are still living in tents. This prompted the Anglican…

A RESIDENT’S association has told Parliament that there is rampant corruption at Chitungwiza council that has seen 27 housing files go missing, while some houses belonging to the elderly were sold. Appearing before the Local Government parliamentary portfolio committee recently, the Zimbabwe Old People’s Association (Zopa) requested Parliament to institute investigations into the cases of…

HARARE City Council has warned housing cooperatives to stop charging administration fees and ordered them to immediately transfer their membership to the municipality. This follows the council’s decision last year to ban housing pay schemes and cooperatives from charging administration fees. The council adjudged that pay schemes and cooperatives members, who paid their land intrinsic…

OLD and dilapidated sewage systems continue to spew raw sewage into the streams that feed Sakubva River catchment, hence communities cannot use water from the river, the Daily News can report. In the wake of the environment disaster, local environmentalist Moses Chimedza at the weekend said the local authority must work on a lasting solution…

THE College of Health Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe says it is still not ready to recall medicine students that failed to sit for their final examinations last December. The students were sent away when the situation deteriorated in public hospitals following the doctors’ strike, making it difficult for them to carry out practical…