© ONE thing Zimbabwe’s big cities generate in large quantities is garbage.Confronted with this headache, municipalities across the country are discussing how to turn mounting mounds of landfills into electricity. [GoogleAd] It’s a timely discussion, though, since the country has slumped into an electricity crisis, with suburbs going up to 12 hours without power. The plan…
© Zimbabwe must declare a water shortage emergency for the first time in its history over the adverse effects of the El Niño phenomenon, the Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (Ucaz) president Hosiah Makombe has said. [GoogleAd] In the last few months, rainfall has decreased considerably across the country, and river and water reserve levels…
© BACK in the days, falling pregnant at school was the end of the road for many young girls. Thanks to the Education Amendment Bill, this could soon no longer be the case. [GoogleAd] The Bill proposes that young girls who fall pregnant while still in school can return to complete their studies after giving birth….
© THE proposed Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill, 2018, will only allow very few foreigners to hold majority stakes in TV and radio stations in a clause that flagrantly violates provisions of the Constitution. [GoogleAd] While it was widely expected that broadcasting laws will be amended under terms of a new Constitution to reconstitute the ownership…
© ITS 16:00hrs and Tsitsi Chamunorwa (not her real name) has to ensure firewood is in place in preparation for supper, before she rushes to the borehole to fetch water. [GoogleAd] One could easily be misled to believe Chamunorwa is in rural Uzumba in Murewa, yet she lives in Harare, Zimbabwe’s largest capital city. For…
© ZIMBABWE will hold a memorial tomorrow for the late vice president Joshua Nkomo, who died of prostate cancer in 1999, aged 82. [GoogleAd] The late “Father Zimbabwe”, will be remembered as the man who was so instrumental in bringing about majority rule in the country although he did not become president of the nation. Organisers…
© ELVIS Tembo (not his real name) is supposedly a middle income earner who works in Harare’s central business district as an accountant. [GoogleAd] He has been leasing a house in the upmarket Bluffhill area since he started working about two decades ago. Tembo, who was in his early 20s when he started working after…
© MDC vice president Tendai Biti has called for political dialogue that would produce a national transitional authority (NTA) to fix Zimbabwe’s broken economy. [GoogleAd] The Harare East legislator said the current administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed, submitting what is now required is a NTA to avert an implosion. “We need a national…
© THE wheels of justice in Zimbabwe are turning too slowly so much that a plethora of cases have been pending before various courts for decades. [GoogleAd] This emerged during public interviews for appointment of two Supreme Court judges. Justices Felicia Chatukuta, Samuel Kudya, Elfas Chitakunye, Charles Hungwe and Nicholas Mathonsi participated in the interviews,…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the accident that claimed 16 people when a commuter omnibus and a haulage truck collided head-on at Wengezi Bridge in Featherstone on Friday a state of national disaster. [GoogleAd] In a statement, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said government would now assist in providing funds…
