March 2020

PARLIAMENTARIANS have resolved to facilitate amendments to the Immigration, Refugee, The Trafficking in Persons, Citizenship and the Birth and Death Registration Acts to, among other things, strengthen migration governance in the country. The resolution was made by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services and the thematic committee on Human Rights…

FORMER Tourism ministry permanent secretary Margret Mukahanana-Sangarwe has said the State does not have any authority to forfeit four motor vehicles that were bought through donations to the ministry when the country co-hosted the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference in August 2013. Mukahanana-Sangarwe said this in her response to an application filed by…

OMAN-based businessman Thamer Said Ahmed Al Shanfari, who is demanding four Glen Lorne houses in Harare, allegedly confiscated from him by the army, has accused authorities of seeking to grab his properties by “hook or crook”. The current litigation arose after Shanfari approached the High Court seeking to have a caveat placed on his properties,…

CROSS border traders have blasted the government for its failure to adequately support the informal sector which is now the backbone of the economy in the country. The traders held an awareness campaign in Harare yesterday where they demanded the government to improve the ease of doing business for players in the informal economy specifically…

HARARE City Council has drawn up a payment plan to offset its US$78 million debt with Chemplex company which supplies the local authority with water chemicals, an official has said. This comes after Local Government minister July Moyo wrote a letter to the Harare City Council directing it to pay the Chemplex debt without fail…

FOUR leaders of a 100-plus member gang of artisanal miners who besieged and attacked a local gold mine last year have been jailed 20 months each. The gang was armed with machetes, iron bars, catapults and stones. Munyaradzi Muswe, 30, of Hatcliffe in Harare, Tendai Tambara, 23, of Nyanga, Rodrick Mutinhima, 32, of Chitambara and…

THE European Union (EU) has bemoaned government’s lack of action and strict enforcement of the rule of law around natural resources and environmental management, making it difficult for the union to allocate financial resources in future. This came out during a seminar held in the capital last week meant to explore how key stakeholders could…