© GOVERNMENT is set to review payouts for pensioners, Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza told the National Assembly last week. [GoogleAd] “… I promised that there was going to be a review of pensions and I will discuss with my colleague the minister of Finance looking at ways of increasing the pensions for the pensioners….
© ZIMBABWE could be plunged into civil strife as the ruling Zanu PF party moves to checkmate demonstrations being mooted by the opposition, workers’ unions and other groups to register disquiet over the state of the economy. [GoogleAd] Respected professor of political science at the University of Zimbabwe Eldred Masunungure said the situation in the…
© ZIMBABWE Red Cross Society (ZRCS) has identified 10 highly-vulnerable schools in Mangwe district Matabeleland South Province as part of an engagement aimed at reducing the major risks and problems that affect the safety and wellbeing of students and teachers. [GoogleAd] ZRCS Matabeleland South manager Siphiwethina Tshuma said this idea is meant to develop enhanced…
© POLICE here are not taking lightly warnings by civic society groups threatening to roll out protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. [GoogleAd] Yesterday, residents in the second city woke up to witness a rare awareness campaign by the police. Unlike in the past when such form of community service is confined to road safety,…
© LEADERS of a Johane Masowe YeChishanu apostolic sect in Glen Norah want Harare City Council (HCC) interdicted from evicting them from the shrine after failing to regularise a Supreme Court appeal. Johane Masowe Yechishanu and leaders Onwell Vengesai and Akson Kandira are the applicants while Harare and sheriff of the High Court are respondents….
© THE Zanu PF youth league has called for broad-based inclusive dialogue to resolve the country’s worsening socio-economic meltdown, giving a glimmer of hope to crisis weary Zimbabweans who are entertaining hopes for political rapprochement. [GoogleAd] The call follows talks initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa involving candidates who participated in the July 30 presidential polls…
© TWO ZIMBABWE Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) bosses paid more than $40 000 towards the resuscitation of the parastatal’s subsidiary before a contract was signed, a court heard yesterday. [GoogleAd] Regional Magistrate Hosea Mujaya heard this when Thomas Mushungupa took the stand in the trial of ZMDC’s acting general manager Luke Akino and former board…
© TRIAL of former ICT minister Supa Mandiwanzira was yesterday postponed to July 16 pending finalisation of High Court proceedings. [GoogleAd] Mandiwanzira is accused of criminal abuse of office after allegedly appointing his unqualified personal assistant Tawanda Chinembiri to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory (Potraz) board. Prosecutor George Manokore sought a longer postponement in…
© BONDA Mission Hospital, a major referral health facility in Manicaland Province has been hit with a $50 000 lawsuit for nonpayment of electricity bills. [GoogleAd] The Anglican-run hospital has not been spared by the economic crunch that has crippled health service delivery owing to shortage of drugs and dilapidated equipment among other factors. In…
© PUBLIC anger is swelling against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for its failure to address the economic challenges that ordinary Zimbabweans are grappling with as prices of basic goods continue going up. [GoogleAd] As a result churches and trade unions are mooting demonstrations to register disquiet over the state of the economy that is characterised…
