© FAKE business licences have rocked the capital as a Harare City Council audit report revealed that 37 percent of the sample licences submitted for verification were fake. According to the audit report, there was a cartel working with corrupt council officials that was issuing out the licences. A council environmental health official had since…
© THE City of Harare has set aside $1,5 million to kick-start the Urban Renewal Project which will see the construction of new public toilets and provision of adequate refuse bins in the Central Business District. While accessing toilets is a basic human right, the ballooning population in the capital has made it impossible for…
© MATABELELAND North has once again recorded the highest number of open defecation cases in the country as most villagers reportedly settled in the province’s various districts without proper sanitation services, a report has revealed. According to Unicef, open defecation is the disposal of human waste in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water or…
© MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party’s “greed and love for power” for the bleak Christmas that Zimbabweans are set to endure tomorrow. In his Christmas message released yesterday, Chamisa said the “joblessness and pennilessness” of the majority of the country’s citizens was a result of a…
© BY 4am yesterday, hundreds of people were queuing at Hello Paisa’s Malaicha.com outlet at Copacabana in Harare, waiting to collect gro- ceries paid for in South Africa. Malaicha.com is a mobile application that Zimbabweans in South Africa can use to buy groceries in that country for their family and friends back in Zimba- bwe….
© THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (Mcaz) has warned the pub- lic against buying fake and substandard hay fever and flue medicines being sold in some pharmacies in Harare and Chivhu. In a statement, Mcaz head of the licencing and enforcement division, Richard Rukwata, said the falsified medicines include the flumed children’s cough and…
© THE government has reneged on its promise to pay a festive season cost of living adjustment (Cola) to civil servants at the eleventh hour, a development that has left its employees seething with anger. A fortnight ago, the gov- ernment told civil servants that they would receive a cushion allowance to en- able them…
© A SOLDIER stationed at Inkomo Barracks has appeared in court charged with stealing firearms and ammunition from his father’s security firm. Moketsi Ndlovu, 27, allegedly took the keys from the company’s supervisor Nkosiyazi Mnkandla under the pre- text that he was taking them to his father. The court heard Ndlovu used the keys to…
© THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) at the weekend officially opened an information centre in Gokwe, bringing to 24 the containerised village information centres (CVICs) in eight rural provinces of the country. Potraz director-general Gift Machengete, pictured, said this during the official launch of the centre at Manoti business complex in…
© VENDORS in Chegutu have secured an interdict against the town’s municipality and the police, after the High Court ordered a stop to their continued abuse and harassment. Godfrey Mhiwa and 105 other vendors are the applicants, while Chegutu Municipality and the officer commanding Zimbabwe Re- public Police Chegutu District are cited as first and…
