© INTERNATIONAL human rights group Front Line Defenders (FLD) has condemned last month’s arrest of four human rights defenders at a meeting organised by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz). [GoogleAd] FLD perceives the arrests as part of an effort to clamp down on dissent, specifically against human rights defenders fighting for the…
© THE Harare City Council (HCC) is spearheading a smart schools initiative that will see state-of-the art learning facilities being built henceforth. [GoogleAd] This comes after the ministry of Education reduced the acreage allocate towards the construction of schools to three-and-a-half hectares. As a result, Harare city fathers have now resolved to constructing storey buildings…
© The city fathers are also mulling drilling an additional 20 boreholes in residential areas to augment the already existing boreholes which are now overwhelmed. [GoogleAd] Gweru Urban legislator Brian Dube last week pleaded with government to avail funds for the rehabilitation of Gwenoro which he said was heavily silted. Dube also called for the…
© The Zimbabwe unit of London-based gold mining company Metallon Corporation is demanding $132 million from the central bank in a lawsuit brought to force the Reserve Bank to pay for gold purchases in US dollars not RTGS$, court documents revealed. [GoogleAd] Metallon, which runs four gold mines in Zimbabwe, said the Reserve Bank of…
© Lawmakers have raised concerns over doctors who are reportedly neglecting their duties in government hospitals whilst spending the bulk of their time in private surgeries. [GoogleAd] Kwekwe Central independent legislator Masango Matambanadzo told the National Assembly that doctors were placing more focus on charging exorbitant prices in their surgeries, turning a blind eye to…
© EX-Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje has filed an application for exception to charges of corruptly concealing his personal interest in a $10 000 transaction with Wicknell Chivayo’s Intratrek Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] Kazhanje allegedly failed to disclose that his company, Terminal Engineers, once did consultancy work for Intratrek. The State alleges that…
MPILO Central Hospital has attracted the ire of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (Galz) — an association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex people in conjunction with Trans and Intersex Rising Zimbabwe (TIRZ) after the health centre called on people with ambiguous genitalia to register with the hospital to undergo medical examination. [GoogleAd] Mpilo…
TOP business executive Lorraine Chitereka, who had been ordered to pay Harare businesswoman Rudo Boka US$50 000 for having an extra-marital affair with her husband, got relief after the High Court overturned the judgment. [GoogleAd] Chitereka claims she was duped and represented by a bogus lawyer, who failed to represent her in the application. “The…
© TWO candidates have been nominated for Kadoma Municipality Ward 2 as Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) bids to fill the seat. Kadoma Ward 2 seeks to re-elect the councilor following the imprisonment of the incumbent candidate with the by-election slated for June 8. [GoogleAd] MDC will be represented by Shorai Chiwara, who will battle it…
© AGORA Club International, a nonpolitical and non-sectarian club found in 19 countries which seeks to promote the values of service and tolerance, will launch a Zimbabwe chapter today. Businesswoman and actress Chido Musasiwa has been appointed the inaugural president of Agora Club Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] Musasiwa told the Daily News that Agora Club Zimbabwe’s overarching…
