A SERIOUS water shortage, which has seen some areas in Harare going without supplies for over a week, has hit the capital as authorities fail to raise US$2 million monthly required for water chemicals. This comes as Harare is also fighting a cholera outbreak that has killed over 600 people across the country amid reports…
AUTHORITIES say their national blitz on illegal movement of livestock has managed to destroy over 50 cattle since January as part of the government’s bid to contain transmission of diseases across the country. The Veterinary Services of Zimbabwe (VSZ) said the blitz was meant to bring down cases of stock theft, which are on the…
IN-COMING Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mushayavanhu, is banking on his vast experience as a top banker to help him to do his new job at the central bank well. Speaking in Harare on Thursday night, at a farewell function that was organised by his former employers, FBC Holdings, Mushayavanhu hoped that his…
THE government says the improved power supplies across the country will continue as relevant authorities work on more measures to increase electricity generation. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Energy ministry permanent secretary Gloria Magombo, said the power utility, Zesa, has managed on increasing power generation at the Hwange Thermal Power Station units 7 and…
STATE-owned Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has, with immediate effect, stopped cutting water supplies to protect its customers, especially farmers, from the El Nino-induced drought. The authority is owed at least $256 billion in water bills by government ministries, local authorities and farmers. However, to protect the debtors, Zinwa has decided not to cut water…
SOME government officials, seconded to the Operation Chenesa Harare, have been implicated in grabbing council land where mounting garbage would have been cleared from and selling it to desperate home seekers. The operation, which is a major government clean-up exercise in the capital started early this year in light of the cholera outbreak, which has…
POWER utility Zesa has embarked on another countrywide blitz which will see it disconnecting all defaulting customers, as it seeks to recover more than US$110 million it is owed in unpaid bills. Zesa subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) confirmed the blitz yesterday, while also advising all defaulting customers to clear their…
THREE Zimbabweans are among 31 professionals from across Africa who have graduated from an elite conservation leadership and management fellowship co-facilitated by The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the United Nations. Environment Programme (UNEP). The Zimbabwean graduates are Environmental Management Agency (Ema) legal advisor Linda Masudze, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) environmental governance officer Graham…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s upcoming monetary policy statement (MPS) will go a long way towards stabilising both the local currency and prices. So vows RBZ governor John Mangudya, who reiterated to the Daily News yesterday that new policy measures would be taken to ensure that the buying power of the Zim dollar was…
A STABLE economy and predictable policy regime are key for “raising Zimbabwe’s social consciousness, and patriotism, and to a point where the country is able to promote its own anti-sanctions laws”, a top lawyer and Zanu PF legislator has said. This comes as the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration’s international reengagement efforts have continually been “negated…
