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Local government proposes $6 billion budget for 2020

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© THE Local government ministry says it requires $6,8 billion in next year’s budget to fund critical projects in housing, disaster management and water. [GoogleAd] Presenting the pre-consultation budget before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government, ministry’s principal director, Joseph Mhakayakora, said the $6,8 billion would be spread across eight programmes. Mhakayakora, who complained…

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Mugabe our fellow combatant, says Mbeki

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© Former president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki has paid glowing tribute to his Zimbabwean counterpart, Robert Mugabe, at a memorial organised by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, calling him a “fellow combatant” who had made a massive contribution to the liberation of South Africa. [GoogleAd] Mbeki told a packed Durban City Hall that Mugabe had backed the…

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Court set to hear bid to  nullify PG appointment

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© THE Constitutional Court is today set to hear an application filed by Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe, who is seeking to nullify Kumbirai Hodzi’s appointment as the substantive prosecutor general of Zimbabwe after he allegedly failed interviews last year. [GoogleAd] President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), Chief Justice Luke Malaba, Justice minister Ziyambi…

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Rising pressure forces ED to act…as govt sets up probe team to find abducted doctor

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© JITTERY authorities yesterday caved in to massive pressure from both locals and the international community to end the escalating abductions of government critics — setting up a special team to probe the latest disappearance, that of a medical doctor, the Daily News reports. [GoogleAd] This came as State hospitals remained paralysed by the ongoing doctors’ strike…

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Simba Chikore acquitted

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© THE late former President Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore was yesterday cleared of unlawful detention charges when he appeared at the Harare magistrates’ courts. [GoogleAd] This comes after Chikore had filed an application for review of a ruling dismissing his application for discharge at the close of the State case. The application was lodged…

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Farming season looks bleak

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© ZIMBABWE faces severe food shortages in its 2019-20 farming season as farmers are financially hamstrung due to the worsening liquidity crunch. [GoogleAd] With the rainy season approaching, most farmers cannot prepare adequately for the cropping season as prices of fertilisers, seed and other inputs continue to rise. The farmers’ incapacitation is a result of…

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Judge orders AFM factions to co-exist

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© HIGH Court judge Edith Mushore has ordered the warring factions of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe to co-exist pending finalisation of a Supreme Court appeal filed by one of the protagonists. [GoogleAd] At the centre of the leadership wrangle is Cossum Chiangwa, who has since filed a Supreme Court appeal challenging a…

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UN meeting must address SDGs, global challenges

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© SOME of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are highly topical, including those on climate action, decent work and economic growth, quality education and partnerships to achieve the goals. [GoogleAd] Yet world leaders gathering in New York this week put a spotlight on SDGs but this is not generating much public enthusiasm. In fact,…

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School bus scandal 

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© A WESTERN Commonage magistrate has issued a peace order against Lukanyiso Primary School deputy head, the school development committee (SDC) chair and four parents as the long-drawn dispute over a dysfunctional school bus takes a new twist.  [GoogleAd] Former SDC chair Phethangani Nyoni, who is accused of defrauding the Mpopoma-based school of thousands of…

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Bread no longer affordable

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© EDITOR — It is disturbing to realise that prices of basic commodities keep on going up and yet salaries remain more or less the same for most employees. [GoogleAd] I have come to realise that whenever there are bread shortages and when it becomes available, the price would have gone up. Bread has recently…

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