© THE row over ownership of Westlea residential stands in the capital has taken a new twist with the Harare City Council being sued by a housing pay scheme for interfering with land allocation. [GoogleAd] Greenview Housing Pay Scheme (Greenview) claims that its members are the legitimate owners of the land because they identified it first…
© E-LEARNING Solution is waiting for government to sign a concession of agreement that will allow it to roll out EduNet, an electronic-learning (e-learning) system that can store, connect and transmit education data among over 9 000 schools and to the Primary and Secondary Education ministry without Internet connectivity. [GoogleAd] The Private Data Network (PDN) will…
© THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has slammed the government for its “ill-advised” decision to hike hospital fees, a development that will worsen the plight of long-suffering Zimbabweans. [GoogleAd] The government this week shocked many when it announced new hospital user fees while also reintroducing maternity fees. Ante-natal ward per day will now…
© THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Climate Services Centre (CSC) has forecast heavy rainfall in most parts of the region for the period December 31, 2019 to January 6 ? except Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] According to the CSC, there is a likelihood of rainfall exceeding 50mm in some parts of the Sadc region during the…
© AT LEAST 111 people died in 1 406 reported road accidents during the recent festive season — December 15, 2019 to January 2, 2020 — a 13 percent decrease compared to 128 people killed in the same period last year. [GoogleAd] The police attributed the cause of accidents to speeding, reversing errors, following the…
© A GOLD buyer was gruesomely killed, robbed of US$700 and a cellphone in Mvuma, Midlands, on New Year’s day by a machete-wielding gang. [GoogleAd] This comes barely a week after a police officer, Wonder Hokoyo, was murdered in Battlefields near Kwekwe, by a marauding machete-wielding gang, resulting in a police crackdown on gold panners. It…
© IN YET more depressing news for long-suffering Zimbabweans, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned of a humanitarian crisis of monumental proportions due to serious food shortages that the country is set to experience this year, the Daily News reports. [GoogleAd] This comes as the WFP is scouring for US$200 million in emergency aid,…
© EARLY last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa disbanded the old Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), amid rumours that it had become tainted and that some of its members were involved in factional politics in the ruling Zanu PF. [GoogleAd] In June last year, a new commission, led by High Court judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo was set…
© THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) is not remitting money to local authorities, Kadoma Central MP Muchineripi Chinyanganya has claimed. [GoogleAd] Speaking in the National Assembly recently, Chinyanganya questioned Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza what the government was doing for the local authorities to get their money on time. “The year is coming to an…
© LOCAL miners have called on the government to improve transparency in allocating mining rights, saying the process is shrouded in mystery. [GoogleAd] This emerged during an anti-corruption indaba in Harare to take stock of the country’s journey in the anti-corruption agenda. Moses Gono, a lawyer and small-scale miner, said the current allocation of mining…
