© GOVERNMENT is yet to release the five percent it set aside for local authorities as their devolution fund. In an interview with the Daily News, Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe president Hosiah Makombe said failure to release the funds by government showed that they did not have the money. [GoogleAd] According to the Constitution…
© PARLIAMENT has completed its investigations on members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy who allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman keen to mine coal in Hwange in January. In February, the National Assembly set up a committee chaired by Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira to investigate Temba Mliswa —…
© The heavy police presence witnessed in the capital yesterday was discussed in the National Assembly, with Dzivaresekwa MDC MP Edwin Mushoriwa expressing disquiet over the measure. “I watched unbelievable scenes. The police were searching every car. This is not good for our country. The leader of the house must explain why the police is…
© A Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer under probe for accumulating wealth beyond his known source of income has been served with divorce papers with his wife after he married a second wife just before his arrest. Kennedy Nyatoti was served with divorce papers yesterday immediately after the State had sought forfeiture of his allegedly…
© FIFA has refused to sanction the Sports and Recreation Commission(SRC)’s decision to disband the Zimbabwe Football association (Zifa) and replace it with a normalisation committee. Earlier this month, SRC board chairperson Gerald Mlotshwa had asked the Zurich-based football body to jettison Zifa president Felton Kamambo and his board due to a litany of charges….
© FORMER Cabinet minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, is being sued for an over $311 500 electricity bill by Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC). ZETDC approached the High Court after Sekeramayi had ignored terms of a deed of settlement which the parties had entered into by consent to clear the bill. [GoogleAd] ZETDC wants…
Triangle United…………(1) 2 Highlanders…………..…(0) 1 © HIGHLANDERS coach Mandla “Lulu” Mpofu put on a brave face after his side’s third defeat on the trot when they went down to Triangle United in a Castle Lager Premiership match at Gibbo Stadium yesterday. [GoogleAd] Allan Tavarwisa gave the Sugar Sugar Boys the lead in the 11th minute…
© HIGH court judge Thompson Mabhikwa yesterday set aside the election of deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami, abruptly ending his “controversial” one-and-a-half-year stint with the local authority. The ruling came after pressure group 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement (1893MRM) had sought the court’s intervention in declaring him unfit for public office as he has a criminal record….
© THE Mighty Warriors’ heavy defeat at the hands of Zambia in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifier on Wednesday has once again exposed the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) on neglecting the girl child. The Mighty Warriors had to endure a punishing road trip to Zambia for the all-important match in their quest to reach…
ZIMBABWE’s war veterans have unleashed their fury on EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen, demanding he stops wading into Zimbabwe’s political affairs. The controversy has clouded Zimbabwe’s re-engagement strategy with the West, coming after the EU mauled President Emmerson Mnangagwa again demanding an end to government crackdown on dissenting voices, including harassment of trade union…
