© MARONDERA Town Council plans to allocate 14 000 medium, high and low density housing stands this year in a bid to clear a 17 000 housing backlog. Marondera mayor Chengetai Murowa told the Daily News that the town had set an ambitious target of cutting the housing backlog by 82 percent. He said the…
© WOMEN rights activists have implored the government to reinstate the free-user fee policy under which public hospitals did not charge expectant mothers. In 2018, the Health ministry under the new dispensation re-introduced the free-user fee policy for expecting mothers, children under the age of five and citizens above 65 years as part of the…
© THE government yesterday received the first consignment of medicines and medical consumables under a US$20 million deal sealed between NatPharm and a Swiss-based firm. The arrival of the much-needed drugs and consumables comes as Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in over a decade which saw restive public sector workers — including junior and…
© THOUSANDS of children in rural areas are failing to attain secondary education due to poverty and economic challenges among other things, the 2019 Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS) results have shown. This comes as schools have hiked fees, with the government saying schools should justify their reasons for increasing fees and seek permission before…
© FILABUSI resident magistrate Mzingaye Ephraim Moyo has been arraigned for replacing court fees and bail money that was paid in cash with electronic money. Moyo received $962 in judicial fines, court fees, bail re-imbursements which he was supposed to deposit into the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) bank accounts. He only deposited $531 into the…
© FORMER Chitungwiza councillor Fredrick Mabamba was arraigned before the courts yesterday on fraud charges involving botched residential stands deals. He appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa and was remanded to today for bail determination. The complainants are Hawa Matuta, 50, Winnie Kadzibonde, 39, and Eleanor Takundwa, 50, of Unit A, Chitungwiza. Mabamba is the…
© A HARARE man who allegedly defrauded former Community Development minister Nyasha Chikwinya of US$140 000 after illegally selling residential stands at her housing scheme appeared in court yesterday. Moreblessing Madondo Mutsvunguma, 33, was charged with fraud when he appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa. Prosecutor Sabastian Mutizirwa opposed bail on the basis that there…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has mourned Zimbabwe’s first post-independence Agriculture minister Dennis Norman who died in England a few days before Christmas. In a statement, Mnangagwa hailed Norman, who died on December 20, 2019 after a long battle with cancer of the oesophagus, for being among a few white leaders who agreed to serve under…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday commenced his three-week annual leave, leaving the reins of power to his deputies Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi. In a statement, presidential spokesperson and acting Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet George Charamba said Mnangagwa would be vacationing within the country until end of the month….
© A PENHALONGA woman has been arrested on attempted murder charges after she stabbed her husband’s teen lover after finding her in her matrimonial bed. Fortunate Kakunguwo, 26, found Alice Mahuku, 18, lying in her bed at Redwing Mine around 1000 hours on January 5 after returning home unannounced after the holidays. Manicaland provincial police…
