HARARE – The new capital city proposed by government in Mount Hampden, Zvimba is taking shape as construction of its New Parliament building has already commenced. Consultant architect Hilary Mukaratirwa told the media yesterday the new city is estimated to cost about $10 billion including offsite and onsite infrastructure. The city which will be built…
BULAWAYO – Siqokoqela, son to former VP Phelekezela Mphoko, was today sent to prison after he violated his bail conditions. Mphoko was jailed when he appeared in court for a routine remand hearing in a case he is facing charges of $80 000 fraud and theft at Choppies outlets. Part of his bail conditions were…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa’s MDC has said the government must quickly and effectively resolve the issue of medical practitioners’ welfare to avoid further crippling of the health delivery system and avoid loss of life. Henry Madzorera, the MDC National Secretary for Health, said yesterday the ongoing medical doctors’ strike is a serious indictment on the…
HARARE – The president of United Nations-led International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad), Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo yesterday said Zimbabwe needs to expand its irrigation scheme to combat drought and poverty. This comes after the organisation offered Zimbabwe grants and low-interest loans to improve food and nutrition security, provide employment opportunities for rural youth, and reduce…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe requires massive foreign direct investment to achieve its transformation agenda that will see the country achieving a middle-income status by 2030. “National wealth is only created when national resources are gainfully exploited through a process of economic transformation. Our minerals remain inert stones or encrustations on rock until…
HARARE – Parliamentarians from across the political divide have savaged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s yet-to-passed 2019 National Budget proposals accusing the Treasury chief of ignoring their recommendations. In the report tabled in the National Assembly yesterday in response to the 2019 National Budget, the parliamentary portfolio committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development expressed serious…
HARARE – Of the $145 million that Harare City Council (HCC) collected between January and September this year, more than 50 percent was channelled towards salaries while the remainder went to service delivery. Presenting the city’s 2019 $472,2 million budget, finance committee chairperson Luckson Mukunguma said the salaries, service delivery ratio is against the ministry…
HARARE – Civil and Health Services Apex Councils yesterday demanded an urgent solution to their grievances, warning that failure to address their concerns will result in workers unable to report for duty. This comes as doctors are on strike, protesting the severe shortages of pharmaceutical drugs at public hospitals — as well as the selling…
HARARE – War veterans yesterday moved a motion ahead of the Zanu PF annual national people’s conference to have the ruling party use its supermajority in Parliament to raise the minimum age for presidential aspirants from the current 40 years to 52. Widely seen as targeted at MDC Alliance presidential candidate in the just-ended harmonised…
HARARE – The crisis at the country’s public hospitals is worsening, after nurses said yesterday that they would start reporting for duty for three days a week due to Zimbabwe’s biting fuel shortages, as well as their outstanding working conditions demands. This comes as doctors continued with their strike yesterday despite claims by the government…
