© NATIONAL Social Security Authority (Nssa) has increased payouts to pensioners from $80 to $200 to improve their welfare and cushion them from the prevailing economic challenges. The increase follows once-off cushioning allowance equivalent to a month’s pension which Nssa awarded in July. Nssa Board chair Cuthbert Chidoori announced the increase in a statement on…
© FORMER vice president Phelekezela Mphoko’s trial which was supposed to start yesterday was moved to today following miscommunication between the State and the politician’s lawyer. Mphoko, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office, appeared before regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya represented by his lawyer Zibusiso Ncube, who came to court ready for trial…
© PARLIAMENT has demanded a ministerial statement from Health minister Obadiah Moyo explaining the state of the country’s health delivery system after government fired over 280 doctors recently. The call, endorsed by Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday, was made by opposition MDC MP for Harare East Tendai Biti who expressed fears that…
© THE escalating row over a farm in Harare’s Pomona area, involving Grace Mugabe, pictured, and a number of land claimants, has now placed the erratic former first lady in the gun-sights of the ruling Zanu PF, the Daily News reports. This comes after the once exceedingly powerful wife of the late former president…
© THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is contemplating daily water cuts to one of the city’s largest high density suburbs, Cowdray Park, due to suspected abuse of the precious liquid. Cowdray Park, which is home to more than 76 000 residents, largely relies on communal water supply pipes because the area does not have individual…
© HARARE City Council (HCC) has come under fire from residents’ associations after a prepaid water meter pilot project in the Westgate area failed as residents cannot buy tokens through their machines. Harare Residents Trust director Precious Shumba said after the prepaid water meters were installed, the council failed to do a post-pilot project evaluation,…
© ZANU PF is set to amend its constitution to create a war veterans wing, similar to the youth and women’s leagues. Speaking to journalists after yesterday’s politburo meeting at the party’s headquarters in Harare, Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said they were awaiting the central committee to affirm the decision to have the…
© A HARARE man has taken his former wife to the High Court demanding $750 000 after he was arrested following allegations he sexually assaulted their two minor children. Ian Ross Waters, who was acquitted in September, has accused his ex-wife Arpana Waters (nee Patel) of fabricating the case. [GoogleAd] He said he approached the…
© FIRE-FIGHTING efforts by the Bulawayo City Council Fire Brigade are being hampered by an acute water shortage, affecting the team’s responses to reports of fire outbreaks as the local authority has very few water bowsers, a council official has said. With the city’s five supply dams at 37 percent full, the local authority has…
© POLICE commissioner-general Godwin Matanga has been sued for defying a court ruling compelling him to reinstate a former officer who was wrongfully dismissed. The ex-police officer, who identified himself only as ex-constable Deredza, was fired on March 21, 2017 and, dissatisfied with his dismissal, filed an application seeking an order to declare his discharge…
