© AFTER losing their cattle to January disease coupled with ravages of drought and Cyclone Idai, Makoni residents can’t stand the prospect of Makoni Rural District council hiking fees by 300 percent. [GoogleAd] International aid organisation World Vision has reported that Makoni residents live in abject poverty while surviving off hand-outs. Makoni Residents and Rate…
© MUTARE residents are up in arms with the city fathers who they accuse of letting apostolic churches mushroom everywhere including near water reservoirs. [GoogleAd] This, they say, is posing serious health risk to residents as most of these churches do not have toilets with thousands of their congregants resorting to open air defecation. The…
© ZANU PF is continuing with partisan food distribution, withholding social welfare support across the country from opposition supporters amid a biting drought, rights group Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has said. [GoogleAd] The report revealed that Zanu PF councillors in areas such as Mt Darwin North, Nzvimbo District, Zvimba West and Mbire are excluding perceived…
© FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said the donor community will now be exempt from paying the two percent tax in their contributions towards humanitarian assistance. [GoogleAd] This comes as statistics show that 5,5 million people in rural areas are food insecure, while 2,2 million people in urban areas also require food aid due to…
© Mutare City Council (MCC) is due to set up a “Gemology Centre” which will house a local diamond polishing industry, with the “beneficiation” plan being touted as an economic stimulus for the southern African nation. [GoogleAd] Mutare, the country’s top producer of diamonds by value, wants to cut unemployment by reversing a trend that…
© Farmers have been given the greenlight to plant the country’s first industrial hemp (mbanje) crop this season, a full year after government invited applications for licences to grow cannabis for medical and research purposes, a government official said on yestersday [GoogleAd] With a growing clamour that has seen more than 170 countries signing the…
© THE worsening water crisis in the country is affecting maternity wards in hospitals as it is exposing mothers and children to infections, nurses have said. [GoogleAd] The country is currently facing serious water challenges and Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) president Hosiah Makombe has called on government to declare a water shortage emergency…
© CHIRUMANZU Rural District Council is set to conduct a public auction for stray livestock. [GoogleAd] The public auction of animals drawn from Lalapanzi, Mvuma and Charandura will be conducted in terms of the Stock Trespass Act (Chapter 19:14). In a notice, the municipal’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lovemore Chatikobo said a total of 15…
© THE Makonde Rural District Council has invited interested and qualified bidders to undertake the construction of Makonde RDC head office and Chidombera Primary School. [GoogleAd] In a statement, the municipality advised candidates to get detailed tender documents for a fee of $100 at Makonde RDC head office in Lions Den. “Bidders should have at…
© MANYAME Rural District Council is set to review fees for services to boost revenue inflows. [GoogleAd] In a notice of supplementary budget proposal, Manyame council said an objection should be lodged in within 30 days. “Notice is hereby given in terms of section 76 and subsection (2) as read with section 95 of the…
