BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has engaged the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) over low inflows to Umzingwane Dam, one of the city’s main water supply sources. This comes as the local authority has said the dam was set for decommissioning this week if no significant rains are received over the coming days. According to the…
TWO Presidential Guard soldiers were arrested on Tuesday for armed robbery after they allegedly pounced on a farm in Beatrice and made away with over US$5 000. Munyaradzi Munyuki and Busani Moyo who are serving members of the army together with Shadreck Kadira were not asked to plead to armed robbery charges when they appeared…
THE newly-formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party wants neighbouring South Africa to once again take a leading role in mediating Zimbabwe’s decades-long political crisis. Speaking during an online discussion on Wednesday on the political situation in the country, one of the CCC’s interim vice presidents, Tendai Biti, said South Africa and President Cyril Ramaphosa…
AUTHORITIES have promised to end the challenges that Zimbabweans are enduring in trying to acquire national identity cards and birth certificates. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe said the current crisis had been caused by shortages of consumables used in producing national IDs. In the case of birth certificates, he said…
ZIMBABWE has called for dialogue in the ongoing Russo-Ukraine crisis saying the United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s ongoing invasion of its neighbour only helped to exacerbate the situation. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, acting Foreign Affairs minister Amon Murwira said Zimbabwe, which abstained from the UN General Assembly vote on Wednesday,…
Shamaine Chirimujiri A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Dzivaresekwa, Harare, Tendai Bondera was on Wednesday slapped with 105 hours of community service for assaulting his mother. Bondera, who was facing a domestic violence case, was initially sentenced to five months’ imprisonment by Harare magistrate Caroline Shenje before two were suspended on condition he does not commit a…
AN Avondale man, who was arrested after a raid by law enforcement agencies at his house on Wednesday and found with four pistols, appeared in court yesterday. Ashraf Kara, 66, was arrested after a blitz which targeted three houses, including a property owned by Harare cleric Walter Magaya, with the police indicating that they were…
A HARARE man Tapera Sengweni and three others have challenged the proclamation of the forthcoming parliamentary and council by-elections by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as the campaign for the by-elections slated for March 26 are already in full swing with various political parties canvassing for support in 28 constituencies countrywide. Most of the seats fell…
Hazel Marimbiza WOMEN in the country are set to benefit from the new land policy framework as most of them have over the years been denied the rights to own land, a senior government official has said. This was revealed yesterday by deputy minister of Agriculture, Douglas Karoro during a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)…
FOUR employees from the Transport ministry have found themselves in trouble, accused of stealing 901 drums of tar worth over $21 million meant for development of roads in Mashonaland Central Province. Andrew Chitura, Allen Gutura and Simon Ndoro, who are supervisors in the department of road works, joined their foreman Dalla Sibanda on accusations of…
