THE government yesterday announced that it is working on incentivising performing urban and rural councils in order to capacitate them to deliver service better despite the current economic challenges. The announcement, which comes against the backdrop of stiff resistance being faced by local authorities from rate payers who are bitterly opposed to tariffs for 2020…
HARARE City Parking public relations manager Francis Mandaza has revealed plans to charge a parking fee per hour equivalent to the value of the United States dollar on the interbank market. Mandaza told the Daily News that the company was failing to fulfil its mandate because the $10 per hour it is currently charging is…
HARARE City Council has taken legal action against debtors with 10 000 summons having been issued to defaulting ratepayers so far. The local authority is owed more than $1 billion by business, the government and residents and has been battling to provide services like clean water and garbage collection due to its financial incapacitation. Harare…
A POLICE constable has been arrested on allegations of leaking police information through the social media platform, WhatsApp, barely two days after the force banned its officers from using cellphones while on duty. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest yesterday. “Constable Lorine Joyce Mugoronji of Harare has been arrested for using the WhatsApp…
THE parliamentary portfolio committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT) will from today embark on a week-long tour of various provinces across the country to assess Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz)’s passive infrastructure connectivity projects in the underprivileged and underserviced areas. The Potraz projects were funded through the Universal Services Fund (USF) and…
FIRST Mutual Holdings Limited (First Mutual) has denied owing MDC vice president Tendai Biti $15 million, which the politician claimed related to his retirement package policy. Biti told the court that upon retirement, the pension fund was supposed to pay him the contractual $15 million sum assured after the company debased his policy. But First…
FORMER Tourism and Hospitality minister Prisca Mupfumira has approached the High Court challenging the Harare Magistrates’ Court’s decision to throw out her application excepting to the criminal charges she is facing. Mupfumira is facing three counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer after she reportedly connived with retired Labour ministry permanent secretary…
A CHIVHU police officer was fatally shot at the weekend while apprehending a suspected serial car thief who terrorised Bulawayo and Kadoma residents. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi yesterday confirmed the incident which happened on Saturday afternoon at Chivhu Township. Nyathi told the Daily News that the police officer, whose identity has been withheld till…
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has implored artisanal miners to employ safety measures when conducting mining activities, following the death of three miners last week after their shafts collapsed. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi’s remarks came in the wake of mining accidents, some of them fatal, that took place last week in Bulawayo, Kwekwe and…
FORMER Zanu PF secretary for the youth league Pupurai Togarepi, who was demoted from the politburo last Wednesday, says he has accepted his fate and will now serve the party in the central committee. Togarepi was stripped of his powerful post as a member of the politburo along with the party deputy youth secretary…
