© SENIOR doctors lifted the lid on the dire state of public hospitals yesterday — telling Parliament that most emergency rooms and life-saving equipment were now totally dysfunctional, leading to many avoidable deaths, the Daily News reports. [GoogleAd] This comes as most State hospitals have been paralysed by a lengthy strike by junior doctors, which…
© A PRIVILEGES committee set up by Parliament to investigate four members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy who allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman seeking to mine coal at Hwange Colliery has recommend their acquittal for lack of evidence. [GoogleAd] In February, Independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa, who was…
© IT’S LIKELY to be a two-horse race between CAPS United midfielder Joel Ngodzo and Highlanders striker Prince Dube for the 2019 Soccer Star of the Year Award when the winner is announced in Harare this evening. Ngodzo and Dube emerged as the front runners for the domestic football top individual honour after they were…
© HARARE Provincial Affairs minister Oliver Chidawu says the capital city needs to invest $2,5 billion in the next few years to overhaul its old water infrastructure which can no longer cope with rising demand. [GoogleAd] Chidawu, a former Harare mayor, however, told participants at a water workshop in Harare on Tuesday that the city…
© FC PLATINUM coach Lizwe Sweswe says his side needs to quickly forget about their defeat to Al-Hilal last week when they host Tunisian giants Etoile de Sahel in the African Champions League at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. The reigning Zimbabwe champions, who are also involved in an intriguing battle for the domestic championship with…
© SOME businesspeople in the city have accused Zanu PF youths of demanding huge sums of money as donations for the party’s annual conference set for Goromonzi next week. [GoogleAd] The conference, to be attended by 7 000 delegates from throughout Zimbabwe, will run from December 10 to 15. A businessman who declined to be…
© ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) employees breathed a sigh of relief after they received their salaries for the first time in five months yesterday. Staff and players had borne the brunt of ZC’s suspension by the ICC in July after funding to the local cricket body was stopped by the Dubai-based organisation. [GoogleAd] ICC took the…
© THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has licensed Parvalue Energy (Private) Limited to set up a 50 megawatts solar plant in Bulawayo’s Westgate area. [GoogleAd] The solar power plant, which has been granted a 25-year licence, comes at a time the country is experiencing one of its worst power crises in decades that has…
© BULAWAYO-based Nhimbe Trust has played a major role in sowing seeds of advocacy and activism in the cultural sector over the years, which is now spreading like a veld fire, its executive director has said. Just recently Nhimbe Trust, in partnership with City of Bulawayo Creative and Cultural Industry (CCIs) stakeholders, was part…
© RESIDENTS in the capital have slammed the Harare City Council over heaps of uncollected garbage scattered across the central business district. [GoogleAd] Despite council workers playing their role by sweeping and placing the dirt in designated places, the municipality is failing to collect the refuse, thereby creating artificial dumpsites in the city. “Recently, the…
