FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says there is more good news in store for long-suffering Zimbabweans as the government is upbeat about the country’s economic prospects. Ncube said Zimbabwe has done well in providing social safety nets for its citizens, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent bumper harvest would spur the country’s economy to…
HARARE City Council (HCC) has been instructed to flash out space barons who are making a killing by renting out the local authority’s properties at much higher premiums to tenants. While these space barons pay a pittance to the local authority, on the other hand, they charge their tenants exorbitant fees. Speaking during a recent…
THE government’s roads and traffic lights rehabilitation programme in the Harare Metropolitan Province is taking shape after several pieces of infrastructure have been renovated with a view to improve the safety of citizens. Through the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP), an inter-ministerial committee on decongestion and street lighting chaired by Local Government minister July Moyo…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on former Two Infantry Brigade commander, retired major general Clever Shadreck Chiramba, who passed away due to Covid-19-related complications on Sunday. Chiramba, 66, left the army in 2004 to pursue his farming business. He was at the helm of Two Infantry Brigade during Zimbabwe’s intervention in the…
HEALTH experts have implored authorities to do more to discourage many members of the public from continuing with their worrying complacency with…
PUBLIC office bearers should set political differences aside and focus on Zimbabwe’s development in order for the country to achieve an upper-middle…
HARARE City Council (HCC) has been implored to utilise its revenue generation projects to boost the local authority’s coffers which will improve service delivery in the capital city. Currently, HCC is weighed down by a depleted service fleet, obsolete equipment, a shambolic billing system and late payment of utilities by residents. The local authority has…
A CHINESE mining company, Afrochine Smelting (Private) Limited, has appealed to the government for protection after locals and civil society organisations have…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, yesterday re-instated a national dusk-to-dawn curfew, as Zimbabwe battles a seemingly more deadly coronavirus third wave that has left the country’s creaking health system severely stretched. The new and stricter management measures for the virulent respiratory disease see the country moving to Level Four of the lockdown, which obliges businesses to…
NEIGHBOURING South Africa is on tenterhooks after former president Jacob Zuma received a shock 15-month jail sentence yesterday for his failure to appear before the ongoing Zondo commission into alleged State capture in that country. This comes after the country’s Constitutional Court gave Zuma five days to hand himself over to the South African Police…
