HARARE – The Registrar-General’s department says it will this month host churches to discuss the newly-gazetted statutory instrument on marriages. The conference will be held on September 27, 2018 at Tobacco Hall, Harare Show Grounds at 10am. “The Registrar-General’s department would like to advise all heads of church denominations that the department will be hosting…
HARARE – Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday underwent what sources said had been a “successful” emergency surgery at a Harare hospital for a kidney-related ailment, the Daily News can report. The serious medical condition forced Moyo to miss the crucial United Nations General Assembly meeting in the United States, where Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is set to conduct a rummage sale auction of forfeited and uncleared motor vehicles and goods at Forbes Border Post, Mt Selinda and Mutare Customs House next Wednesday. This comes a few months after the authority’s Commissioner-General, Faith Mazani, instructed auctioneers to hold rummage sales for uncleared goods currently…
HARARE – High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday ordered the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to stop all construction work on the campus’ wetland without an environmental impact assessment certificate. In an interdict filed by the Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT), UZ had begun to construct a service station and shopping complex on the wetland near…
HARARE – Steward Bank yesterday launched a National Cholera Crisis Fund targeted at raising $2 million to contain the cholera outbreak. Speaking at the launch yesterday, the bank’s CEO Lance Mambondiani, said Steward Bank, Econet Wireless and Higher Life Foundation have partnered to raise funds from the corporate sector, charity organisations and individual well-wishers in…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is in need of $13 million to rehabilitate pothole-infested roads around the city. Following complaints that Zinara annually makes full disbursements for VIP roads while neglecting those in other parts of the city, Harare mayor Herbert Gomba said council is on a mission to repair three main roads per…
BULAWAYO – A National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employee has been arrested on sexual-harassment charges after a married woman accused him of grabbing her behind on June 11. Mariko Mulauzi, 57, of Iminyela flats, was arraigned before magistrate Steven Ndlovu facing charges of indecent assault filed by his neighbour. He entered a not guilty plea…
HARARE – A Harare man who reportedly lost his house to business tycoon Frank Buyanga has claimed a firm that bought his foreclosed property was actually the businessman’s shelf company, a magistrates’ court heard yesterday. Stephen Nyoka made the claim as he was testifying in a case in which Buyanga is, however, not the one…
MUTARE – Mutare City Council has banned all illegal vending exercises threatening to “thoroughly deal” with anyone who defies the edict as the municipality moves to forestall a cholera outbreak. The local authority said it will partner with other State security agents in unfurling the operation, that will also target restaurants and food outlets that…
HARARE – The Primary and Secondary education ministry is working flat out to ensure that pupils at Glen View 5 Primary School in Harare — who have missed class because lessons have been suspended due to the cholera outbreak — are not affected by the temporary closure. Permanent secretary in the ministry Sylvia Utete –Masango…
