THE government last week set up a Cabinet Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management to bring sanity and order in urban areas by deregistering housing cooperatives being run by corrupt land barons. The committee is chaired by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. This came after recent flooding of settlements built on wetlands in Harare and…
Lloyd Matare HARARE City Council could face sanctions from the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) after failing to comply with an order to clear garbage that has piled up at bus termini around Mbare. HCC has only managed to clear only three out of seven of the garbage mounds, in violation of Ema’s directive, which became…
ZANU PF says the MDC is now operating from “the last chance saloon” to work with the former liberation movement and other political parties in the interests of the country and its long-suffering citizens. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the influential Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, also warned opposition leaders…
TAMARY CHIKIWA in BULAWAYO tchikiwa@dailynewsonsunday.co.zw PLUMTREE residents have been challenged to campaign against poor service delivery that has become the order of the day as the local authority fails to play it’s constitutional mandate. The town is experiencing service delivery challenges with poor access to water, slack garbage collection, sewer bursts and poor drainage systems….
HARARE City Council (HCC) has warned owners of illegal vending stalls and tuckshop traders operating on public spaces to pull down their structures before February 18 or risk the full wrath of the law. In a statement this week, HCC said that the construction of tuckshops on public spaces is a contravention of the…
Lloyd Matare THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday said it had to date arrested 417 833 people since March last year for violating regulations aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. ZRP said despite the lockdown regulations which exempt only essential service workers, indiscipline among Zimbabweans has become rampant. Writing on its twitter handle yesterday,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zimbabweans against coronavirus complacency, in the mistaken belief that vaccines will be a panacea to the local spread of the deadly respiratory disease. This comes as the country is set to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines tomorrow from China, with more doses expected in March. Speaking during the…
ZIMBABWEAN businesses should leverage on areas where the country enjoys comparative advantage to reap the benefits of an integrated region following the commencement of trading under the continent-wide trade agreement, ZimTrade has said. In its Trading Post for January, ZimTrade said trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) comes at a time when…
ZIMBABWE will hold a population and housing census in August ahead of the 2023 elections, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) has announced. Zimstats director-general Taguma Mahonde said the agency had begun field mapping and house-listing in preparation for the census, which is expected to gobble up US$85,5 million. The census is held every 10…
JITI musician Braveman “Baba Harare” Chizvino is pleased with the success of his latest track, Handidi Zvekumitisa, on the market. The song, featuring Nomagugu Ncube, was released on February 8. “I am humbled by the positive feedback the song is getting on Youtube. The feedback is so encouraging. I never imagined that it will reach…
